Why McCain Loves Misha

If the world ever plunges into a world war, you can look to the east for the cause my friend.

Ok USS Augusta, no comparison is perfect.
I could use Lincoln meeting with Jefferson Davis after Fort Sumter to get
his "side of the story", thereby maybe avoiding a war which ended up costing hundreds of thousands of
lives. What's at stake in Georgia is principle. You can never sacrifice principle to expediency.

I honestly don't get this thing where McCain is assumed to have the edge in foreign policy. He's a nationalist and a neoconservative, and that means it doesn't matter how much experience he has. What matters is emotion- it couldn't be more obvious that he's of the exact same foreign policy stock as President Bush. He responds to foreign crisis with the neocons' special blend fear, anger, hate, and idealism, the same thing that got us into Iraq, and the international situation is going to further deteriorate over the next four years with this man at the helm. The United States is not in a military, economic, or political position to provoke Russia. Let's get emotion out of the White House and replace it with reason.

Difficult to read this article, which offers a tepid critique of McCain but enforces his profoundly dishonest self-prsentation as a reformer, since he has, for most substantive policiy issues voted pure party lines for the last 6 years or so, and is currently waging a campaign of breath-taking, even soul sickening dishonesty and bad-faith. So while I appreciate an analysis of what might be considered irresponsible and reckless foreign policy judgement, I think you do the political discourse, even the spiritual health, of the country a disservice by collaborating in the furtherance of McCain's straight-shooting maverick image ...

Difficult to read this article, which offers a tepid critique of McCain but enforces his profoundly dishonest self-prsentation as a reformer, since he has, for most substantive policiy issues voted pure party lines for the last 6 years or so, and is currently waging a campaign of breath-taking, even soul sickening dishonesty and bad-faith. So while I appreciate an analysis of what might be considered irresponsible and reckless foreign policy judgement, I think you do the political discourse, even the spiritual health, of the country a disservice by collaborating in the furtherance of McCain's straight-shooting maverick image ...

It disturbs me that some are referring to Saakashvili as a warmonger because
of what happened in South Ossetia.

Last time I checked, Georgia was an sovereign independent country.
As such does it not have the right to make decisions to enter in
to treaties and international alliances(without outside interference)?
Surely it does.

Saakashvili called for the admission of Georgia to NATO. NATO is a defensive alliance.
South Ossetia has been internationally recognized as belonging to Georgia.

Russian forces not only occupy that territory but part of the independent
sovereign nation of Georgia itself. This is an acceptable situation?

It is not we (the US) that Poland, the Ukraine and Georgia fear but
Russia. There a reason for that. What kind of country would we
be if we allowed one country to intimidate and occupy another
country, especially one that is a friend and beyond that, strategically
important?

It is the Russians who are the warmongers and aggressors.
Indeed, if we allow this Russian behaviour to go unchallenged, then
we are inviting much greater problems on down the road.

We seek peace-a legitimate lasting peace that respects the borders
of every sovereign nation.
People in different places around the globe are yearning, struggling
and in some cases fighting for the same rights as we enjoy here.
The freedoms we enjoy as Americans don???t belong just to us-
they are universal and reside in the hearts, minds and souls of
every human being. Should we not help this endeavor where we can?

No, we are not the warmongers, we are in fact the freedom-bearers,
indeed the peace makers.

Where people such as Putin and Iran???s Ahmadinejad seek to bring
conflict and discord to the world we should be ready to stand up
and aid those who they would seek to dominate or destroy.

We must always be the best of friends to our friends and an imposing
adversary to those that would do harm.
The words of our forefathers and founder would ring hollow indeed
if we adopt the attitude that they only apply to us or that they don???t require
every effort on our part to help within internationally valid means to
secure these rights for those beyond our shores.

In the words of St. Francis: ???Where there is despair, let us bring hope

where there is darkness, let us bring light.???

This sounds to me like the kind of leader we should support. Has it slipped your mind that South Ossetia is part of Georgia, recognized as such by the UN. What we have here are the timid hearts at work again , they just will not stand and be counted. McCain will do fine as President he has integrity something rare among today's politicos.

So know Newsweek has the ability to read McCain's mind and know what he would do as president. Newsweek should change their name to Psychic or Obama's Endorser. Owen Matthews must be related to Chris Matthews, another Obama butt kisser, so there goes your credibility and objectivity.

Forget (if you can) McCain's confusing of Shia and Sunni, his belief that Pakistan and Iraq share a border, and that Iran is training Al-Qaeda. His wild declaration that we are all Georgians and his call to immediately rush Georgia into NATO set us up to engage nuclear-loaded Russia militarily. Imagine McCain, who is, like Bush and Cheney, easily frightened and prone to excessive reactions to that fear (which he transforms quickly, in accordance with stereotypical male training, into aggressive anger), as President McCain. His support of plenary presidential powers, coupled with a pre-emptive war policy and a clarion call to "roll back rogue states," makes him one very dangerous prospect for president. The pre-emptive war policy is for cowards only: "They scare me so! Let's do evil unto them before they do evil unto US." McCain, if elected, will have us dangerously at war on multiple fronts for his four disastrously bloody years. McCain, who has long lived in the military shadows of his more-heralded grandfather and father, wants to eclipse them as military leaders. Trust me, peace is the last thing McCain really wants and, if elected, the last thing we'll see.

In Gereral I do agree with the article, the Dimitry simes of the Nixon center... is not very trust worthy to me... I know that guys and he's not very smart... no.

"It's not surprising that Saakashvili, 41, known to Georgians by the nickname Misha"

- It's not a "nickname" It's a short version iof a name Michael.

Dimitri Simes, Well Dimitri, like any Russian... he has he's views... so what? Does it make him more coorect than the others?


" Saakashvili's tough talk about Moscow may ignite McCain's imagination, but his brinksmanship in August led to the rout of Georgia's armed forces and the worst U.S.-Russia standoff since the cold war. Simes says that "

- Well Russia DID invade his country and started killing civillians... so what the president of Georgia should have been "thankful" to Putin?

"More than 500 people were hospitalized"

- hat is veryu inacurate and it did happen only because the lack of any basic experience of opposition... The problem is that the opposition was the who were really scary. Yhe old mafia people, that have been jaied, old croocks and the corrupt people that were fired got all together... Russia did also play some role in all that and yes, it did happen like that, but in the end this hapopens in the country that has Free media, free oposition, democracy and problems. This country does have all that and you all know that the Democracy does look like chaos sometimes...

He never called him "Liliputin..." it was in Russian media, but I have NEVER heared anything like that from him on any media.

"Russia plainly wanted to lure Saakashvili into a war he couldn't win. So why did he take the bait?"

- So you REALLY belive that is is possible for a small country to avoid a war with Russia, if Russia really wants a war?!
Here is everything:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/13/georgia?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/28/georgi19712.htm

Once again a foreign lobby--this time a slick Georgian foreign lobby--is directing American foreign policy for its own interest and against America's interest. John McCain is naively drinking the Georgia lobby's coolaid. He has help from his staff: McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, formerly worked as a lobbyist for Georgia, and is surely bamboozling his gullible boss. Should our President and his aides serve foreign interests? I have a better idea. Our President and all Presidential staff should be 100 percent loyal to America and only America. Those who serve foreign interests against the American interest should be run out of Washington on a rail.

Once again a foreign lobby--this time a slick Georgian lobby--is manipulating American foreign policy for its own interests and against American interests. John McCain is naively drinking the foreign lobby's coolaid. His top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, even worked as a lobbyist for Georgia! Do the American people really want a president whose top staffers are loyal to foreign governments? I have a better idea: our President, and our President's top advisers, should be 100 percent loyal to America, and only America.

Anna & Dan,

It seems McCain tends to be more impulsive than analytical. Good pilots are quick to react after analysis. McCain???s record as a pilot is well documented.

5 crashed planes - one on the way to an Army-Navy game. 20 combat hours. Some vets have speculated he also caused the loss of American life in Vietnam by talking impulsively.
(source: http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_mccain_lost_five_u.htm)

View the videos at ===>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSDwwKLYr8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5oMHr85Uk4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDWLrFg7h3M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhhrjtrMpM8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBYFRRk5aQU

McCain believes in making sure no man is left behind ===>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXjWguoFbpI


Bias against McCain in the media ===>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gh6r5ALVMo


McCain's Straight talk ===>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy90nF2anI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c


Mission Accomplished by George Bush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GJUGUYsm68

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFijzDyJnVE


McCain's Mission Accomplished

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FltLzeyACzY

Saakashvili just learned the Straight Talk Express become the BS Express.

Better check your facts on the combat stuff for McCain. 5 crashed planes - one on the way to an Army Navy game and just 20 hours of combat time.