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Georgia was tricked, but by Russia or US?
Ian Bell on the new cold war

LET’S RUN through this again. Vladimir Putin is not a nice man. The KGB, with whom the young Vlad earned his reputation as a people person, was not Russia’s answer to the Rotary Club. As a direct consequence, Russian traditions of democracy remain wafer thin, a cracked veneer that fails utterly to conceal thuggery, rigged votes, oligarchic mafias, corruption, and the corpses of journalists. Are we clear?
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CNN reported today that Colin Powell has denied that he will endorse Obama and says that he won’t go to thier convention. The reporter at Fox News, who broke the story, is continuing to say Powell will continue to ostensibly support Obama.

It seems to me that certain Obama supporters are begging for Powell’s endorsement.

he’s a well respected military general, who wouldn’t want his opinion?

Posted June 10, 2007 12:27 PM
by Mike Dorning
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I keep hearing how evil Russia is but im curious as to how many civilians died when Georgia attacked?

Honestly, dont you guys think if Georgia did something like this to America they would get even worse of a beatdown?

or israel
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bear should be in a judo uniform instead of a tank top.
why are political cartoons always drawn in the same manner?

How is that stupid?

Over his head I guess
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EXCLUSIVE: To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them»

Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran.

In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of the overblown incident in the Strait of Hormuz, when a U.S. carrier almost shot at a few small Iranian speedboats. The “meeting took place in the Vice-President’s office. ‘The subject was how to create a casus belli between Tehran and Washington,’” according to one of Hersh’s sources.
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fore some reason that report looks like it was made in photoshop
Good. Post a link to the vid if it becomes available.
you know it.

his buddies are up after him I belive
holy shitballs, he’s 3 days older than me.

Hopefully, I’ll outlive him
he’s been trying to get his conviction reversed because he was he didn’t "know" he had access to international lawyers and blah blah blah from mexico. His POS lawyer made him aware of it and he dragged his shit all the way to the white house… Bush had a stay of execution until a judge in Texas over ruled Bush and said this dumbass needs to die.
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This is how I look at it;

1. The Earth is a closed system
2. Oil is a finite resource
3. In the last 40 years the Earth’s population has doubled from 3 billion to over 6 billion.

Now you could go on and on about how much human activity is influencing the world climate, but I just don’t understand how someone can look at this picture and think that it will have no effect on anything. You may think that the only thing that matters in the world is the economy, but the economy is just a subsystem of the larger system it inhabits… the ecosystem.
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Ex-CIA official: WMD evidence ignored
‘60 Minutes’ report: White House disregarded good intelligence

(CNN) — A retired CIA official has accused the Bush administration of ignoring intelligence indicating that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and no active nuclear program before the United States-led coalition invaded it, CBS News said Sunday.

Tyler Drumheller, the former highest-ranking CIA officer in Europe, told “60 Minutes” that the administration “chose to ignore” good intelligence, the network said in a posting on its Web site.

Drumheller said that, before the U.S.-led attack on Iraq in 2003, the White House “ignored crucial information” from Iraq’s foreign minister, Naji Sabri, that indicated Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.

Drumheller said that, when then-CIA Director George Tenet told President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other high-ranking officials that Sabri was providing information, his comments were met with excitement that proved short-lived.

“[The source] told us that there were no active weapons of mass destruction programs,” Drumheller is quoted as saying. “The [White House] group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they were no longer interested. And we said ‘Well, what about the intel?’ And they said ‘Well, this isn’t about intel anymore. This is about regime change.’ “

Drumheller said the administration officials wanted no more information from Sabri because: “The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy.”

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he seems like a cool guy, horrible president but cool guy. much like bush. mccain seems like a total douche
McCain. Obama is a pretentious, out-of-touch elitist. McCain knows the struggles of the working man.
his response to larry king asking him about the new yorker was like, "its a cartoon, thats why we have the first amendment. people have wasted way too much time on this"

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well, this will be a very interesting turn of events. The United States has been an advocate of Georgian independence, and Georgia has responded with pro-west strategic moves.

we have troops there now, and would love to set up bases there along with other nations.

so, what does the US do? send troops? get out? mediate talks?

will the russians listen? will the georgians listen? does the usa have any credibility left after saying fuck you to the world in 03?
They’re shooting down Russian planes. They’re about to get their asses handed to them, and probably re-absorbed by the Russians.
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