Is the Georgia Russian confrontation just a new election cycle fear-ploy?
If I was a suspicious person with my own tin foil hat, I could pull together a pretty good scenario explaining America’s part in the Russian invasion of Georgia.
I thought about this as I pondered when another timely election-driven terror alert was coming out. I have been used to so many false alarms about increased “chatter” around every election that I don’t have to look at the calendar to figure out that it is that time in the congressional calendar to get themselves re-elected. I always look forward to Fox news special Armageddon-style computer generated graphic alerts.
As long as alarming news about a potential terrorist attack is present in the voters minds, it has to be good for at least five percentage points in favor of any Republicans running for office.
The mindset for war has changed very little over the years. Hitler’s number two man said it the best.
"Why of
course the people don't want war. Why should some
poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war
when the best he can get out of it is to come back to
his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England,
nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.
But it is the leaders of the country who determine
the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag
the people along to fight a war, ... Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the
bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to
do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce
the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same in any
country."--
Hermann Goering
Under your leadership the Republican Party has found
multiple ways of stoking fear In the minds of many
Americans.
Not only did color coded alerts drive sales of duct
tape to help seal homes in case of a chemical attack,
it also supported the sale of your war which sent
Americans to kill and be killed in a far off desert.
Right after the attack on the twin towers you helped
hype the fear of Muslims and all arabs in general. It
was later expanded to include fear of illegal
immigrants when fear of arabs began to wane.
The long string of cases involving deviant sexual
behavior, corruption, and malfeasance involving
Republicans has severely crippled the party of
conscientious conservatism. Your personal inability
to provide any leadership on the national and
international stage didn't give Republicans much to
brag about either, so fear was all you have had to
run on.
Given this consistent message of fear before every
election to the citizenry; is it possible that
overusing the same fear mongering has forced you to
try other means of evoking dread?
Did a Bush acolyte provide some back-channel
assurances to Mikheil Saakashvili,
President of Georgia, that if they step up their
plans to deal with separatists in South Ossatia, the
United States would support them?
And
why would you do that?
Maybe it is because you needed to create a situation
where America is faced with a NEW evil …
Russia. A nation with 10,000 to 15,000 REAL nuclear
weapons.
Your decision to refrain from participating in an
international treaty that would have banned weapons
in space, about as bad as your decision to drink and
snort coke all the way through college.
Georgia does not know you well enough to understand
that you would only send humanitarian aid and never
intended to provide any military support to deal with
the new Russian threat.
It is not like you have an abundance of available
ground forces to deal with a major world power like
Russia.
The new cold war is perfect way to raise the fear
level and give Mc Cain and other Republicans a bump
in their ratings.
And all it cost was a few thousand Georgian and South
Ossatian lives. After killing thousands upon
thousands of Iraqis what's a few thousand more lives?
Is this outbreak between Russia and Georgia a planned
sacrifice the world needed to make to keep
Republicans in power?
Like I said earlier, If I wore a tin foil hat this
might make a lot of sense to me.
From:
comments@whitehouse.gov
Date:
August 19, 2008 11:43:51
PM CDT
To:
guzmatom@mac.com
On behalf of
President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your
suggestions.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White
House cannot respond to every message.
Thank you again for taking the time to
write.
Didn't Georgia see what happened during the Israeli-Lebanese war?
I turned on CNN and I heard Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili plead for American help the other day.
He is not a dumb guy. He received a degree from Kiev State University (Ukraine) in 1992 And he received a law degree from Columbia Law School in 1994 and took classes in at The George Washington University Law School the following year. So how can he fall for the 'aw shucks' shit you hand out?
Lebanon found out how much your word is worth when their struggling democracy was attacked by Israel and their civilian population and infrastructure were bombed to pieces
So is it any surprise that Georgia was also left hanging as well?
Lebanon found your support for them as empty as our nation's gas tanks are today.
When Israel began bombing civilian targets, and Prime Minister Fouad Siniora begged for the United States to tell your other ally to stop bombing innocent civilians you responded in the most interesting way.
On 25 July 2006, Condoleezza Rice promised the Lebanese government $30 million in aid for reconstruction, even as the United States was rushing to complete an Israeli order for 4,000 precision-guided bombs to drop on, Lebanon.
Israel suffered a humiliating defeat as Hezbollah managed to not only survive the disproportionate Israeli attack but gained popularity with the people of Lebanon as they, not the United States, came to their rescue.
Ironically Hezbollah's use of Russian-made anti-tank guided missiles were a key weapon system used to destroying or disabling many Israeli Merkava Tanks, the pride of Israel's ground offensive.
This recent war between Russia and Georgia has some similarities with the Isreali Lebanon war.
Russia disproportionate response to Georgia's actions in South Ossatia is much like Israel's and your response to another desperate request for help from a fledgling democracy is similar as well.
Cheney is ready to go to war, because that is all he knows, but who knows where you can get enough ground forces to make a difference. We are in no shape to take on a nuclear power like Russia head on.
Humanitarian aid is all that you can provide other than push the missile bases in Ukraine which will make Russia really happy to leave Georgia.
It is all real reminiscent of your response to Lebanon except Russia won't need to buy any American made precision guided bombs. They have plenty of their own.
Is this a Bush thing?
Your daddy left the Shiites high and dry after he encouraged them to overthrow Saddam Heussein right after he defeated Heussein in the first Gulf War.
Thousands of Shiites were killed when they actually thought Bush Sr. would provide them some kind of support to follow up his words of encouragement.
Boy were they punked!
This whole Georgia thing must not be high on your list.
Condoleeezza Rice your Russian expert did not even interrupt her schedule when the Russians invaded Georgia our ally.
And everyone knew where you were. You were not in a war room conferring with the joint Chief of Staff over the situation.
You were in Bejing yucking it up with the female volley ballplayers and holding the flag upside down and backwards, cheering in the stands. ps Holding the flag upside down means "I'm in distress." And it is possibly the truest symbol of your presidency that you could ever have displayed.
The Russians timed this war perfectly. A dolt still occupied the office of the presidency and Americans were inundated with Olympic news. Fox news did their part by provided nonstop coverage of the John Edward's affair.
And most Americans have shifted their focus from the Iraq and Afghanistan war to the sad state of their personal finances. People are losing their jobs and it seems like every week we see new records are set on the rise in inflation, and homes in foreclosure. Then there are the presidential elections which are in full swing.
All in all this is no big deal folks nothing to see here. Move along!
Of course none of this is keeping you from going on your normal August vacation.
Over the duration of your presidency you have taken 466 days of vacation at your pretend ranch in Crawford Texas and 458 vacation days at Camp David.
Together they add up to a year and a half of vacation during your last seven years and seven months in office.
So everything must be OK, right.
Please please please, can you tell me what drugs you take to make you so detached from reality, because I want a truck load of those things.
By the way tell Fox news to stop harping on John Edward's potential fitness to be our president even though he left the race for the presidency a while ago. Someone might remember that John McCain admitted to cheating on his ailing wife after she was in a car accident and He IS running for president.
From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: August 14, 2008 10:54:02 PM CDT
To: guzmatom@mac.com
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House cannot respond to every message.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.
New proxy war with Russia ..another Bush failure.
While you were sitting impatiently and staring at your watch at the opening of the Olympic games, and goofing with the volleyball team, on the other side of the world one more Bush-failure was unfolding. It is much like watching you read The Pet Goat while we were attacked on 9/11.
Your push to assume dominance in the Mid East and its vast oil reserves has been a huge disaster and now Russia's refusal to yield to your ally Georgia's claim of Ossatia has also become a dismal failure for Bush foreign policy/play-for-oil dominance.
THE BUSH DOCTRINE, RUSSIAN STYLE
After you invaded Iraq, Russian Air Force commander Vladimir Mikhailov remarked as far back as June 6 2005 that Russia would be also prepared to use tanks and warplanes to destroy terrorist bases wherever they find them.
"As for terrorists and our fighter jets, if we have high-precision weapons and know the whereabouts of a terrorist gang, why not smash it, even if it's outside Russia."
You set the stage for pre-emptive attacks with your Bush Doctrine. Permitting themselves the right to also use force on any potential enemy without bothering with diplomacy. And now they have followed up on that threat.
What is good for the goose is good for the gander junior.
Georgia has endeared themselves to you by sending 2000 of its troops to fight in Iraq in return for arms and training.
It is hard to figure out who took advantage of whom when they agreed to let you install military bases along their one very important pipeline in return for promoting Georgia's membership into NATO.
Putin had called the expansion of NATO and the missile defense shield as the start of a new cold war.
Over the past few years, the Kremlin has groused over the succession of former Soviet states, including Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, as they staged pro-democracy revolts and left Moscow's geopolitical orbit.
"We can expect to see fresh efforts to strengthen [pro-Russian politician Viktor] Yanukovich," says Dmitri Suslov, an analyst with the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, an independent Moscow think tank.
Moscow's strategy is about reclaiming the regional states around Russia, and integrating them with Russia's economy and conversely their oil and natural gas supplies.
The boost in oil prices and Russia's state ownership of Gazprom has provided Russia with significant funding and a stranglehold on a significant amount of energy resources.
Although Georgia does not have oil resources, it is an important transit point for oil and gas that does not involve Russia or Iran, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, the same pipeline that rebel Kurds recently set afire and still burns in Turkey.
The simmering conflict between Russia and it’s small, former Soviet neighbor Georgia erupted late on Thursday when Georgia sent forces into South Ossetia, a small pro-Russian province which separated from Georgian in the 1990s.
The war between Russia and Georgia may not mean very much to most Americans right now, but it is a crucial energy transit country for about one per cent of the world's oil which travels to Turkey and Europe.
Russia responded to the incursion of their ally by pouring troops and tanks south through the Caucasus mountains into South Ossetia to drive back the Georgians.
I am surprised that the press reported that the conflict alarmed the West. What did you think was going to happen when a pro-American nation invades a pro-Russian country … to be received with flowers?
Russian troops and tanks took control of Tskhinvali, the region's devastated capital, early on Sunday. The question is will they keep the tanks rolling until Georgia is completely overrun? And if they do, what will you do about it?
From: comments@whitehouse.gov
Date: August 11, 2008 2:03:29 AM CDT
To: guzmatom@mac.com
On behalf of President Bush, thank you for your correspondence.
We appreciate hearing your views and welcome your suggestions.
Due to the large volume of e-mail received, the White House cannot respond to every message.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.