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DUH: “Russians were told over breakfast yesterday what really happened in Georgia: the conflict in South Ossetia was part of a plot by Dick Cheney, the vice president, to stop Barack Obama being elected president of the United States.” [Times of London]
I agree.
Also, you can take the letters in Obama’s name to spell “A Car Bomb”.
I really love how Bush spent another four days at the Olympics after the war got underway. As if that wasn’t revealing enough, from Reuters -
“…Bush said Moscow’s decision to send in troops had hurt its credibility overseas. “Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century,” he said in Washington before departing for a holiday in Texas.”
Almost makes you feel sorry for Cheney.
Heh heh. The Times said “skullduggery.”
The quote would be laughable propaganda if I didn’t believe in it just a tiny bit. Dick Cheney has that sort of effect on one.
lumpenprole: It’s like we live in some kind of ironic play. This isn’t real, right?
Here’s where they go off track:
“Bush himself did not want a war in South Ossetia but his Republican Party did not leave him any choice”
But they’ve got the great paranoid swoop of things down, so who cares if they miss on some of the details, right? I mean, that’s the way our media works.
Christ, sometimes I wish we had adults to play this game.
Dick Cheney = Ares God of War!
Cheney issued this statement: “I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
lumpenprole: “holiday in Texas”
Translation: “back to the Mexican rehab clinic, somebody’s off the wagon bigtime”
Look: we didn’t build all these gorgeous weapons systems to sit in their silos, hangars, submarine pens and garrisons. We build them to fight a goddam war with a worthy opponent–not to bomb some “terrorist training camp,” which isn’t any more than a jungle gym and a couple of hootches. (Seriously: how much “training” does a suicide bomber need? An hour?)
Nope, now we’re getting down to the licklog. Our old and loyal friend, the Republic (or Kingdom or Emirate or whatever) of Georgia needs us, so they can continue to treat their ethnic Russian minorities like dirt.
And they don’t even have oil! Well, maybe a little, and repairing those pipelines’d be a nice thing when Halliburton needs a taxpayer cash infusion.
So, it’s all there. Anti-soviet nostalgia, oil, a wronged tinpot dictator…uh, President. Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of the Military Industrial Complex.
Thanks, Florida.
lumpenprole: Yet he bitched about Congress taking it’s summer recess before handing his oil companies more drilling rahhhgts…we need to clear bush..
lumpenprole: what he meant to say:
“Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways for anyone but the United States to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century.”
TGY: yeah, that’s the problem. You can believe that they want to either prevent Obama from attaining office or, if he does, leave him with a world in flames.
What’s a “Russian Breakfast”? Vodka + Orange Juice? Is this one of those “We call it a Belgian waffle, they call it the slow American death food” moments?
AngryBlakGuy:
Problem is that Ares is good at what he does.
More like:
Dick Cheney = Lloyd Fredenhall Putz of War.
SayItWithWookies: I had to look long and hard (well, two minutes on Google) to learn that someone named Mike Duncan is Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Somehow I don’t think he’s faxing work orders to Chimpy and Cheney.
lumpenprole: How do you spell “annual summer intervention?”
Darehead: you know, Bush should watch out. He could suffer a fatal brush-clearing accident and then Big Dick would be in charge. He’d then suspend the elections because of war. I am scared that I actually kind of can imagine this happening.
This is like one of those Nigerian e-mails saying “Barak Oboma es Britny Spears luver.” What the fuck? Thank you Russia for proving that you are totalitarianly AWESOME!
tunamelt:
I’m sure this ironic farce will be rewritten by the Kagans as epic tragedy, which might make it comedy.
Darehead:
I was thinking this is more like senioritis and he’s just blowing off finals. He’s failed anyway, but he did get a couple nerds to finish his term paper – so whatevers.
ManchuCandidate: Or maybe Napoleon III, another strategic genius.
shortsshortsshorts: Do You Want A Giant Cock?
We have always been at war with South Ossetia.
Doglessliberal: Dick probably started slipping vodka in Bush’s milk til he reactivated his alcoholism.
Doglessliberal: We should all be scared of it, this could be what their cooking now, all the “outrage” at Russia then pushing the missles in Poland…then going to Crawford, to let Dick handle it all.
HAHA, just noticed “Better Red than Dead.” Should ‘ve thought out your color scheme a little more carefully, Neoconned RED Staters!
Better Blue than Yoo?
freakishlystrong: “they’re”, jesus I hate Friday Coma…
Doglessliberal: You think the Secret Service actually lets Dubya use a chainsaw with a chain on it?
There was a TRULY SUPERB interview with James Traub on NPR’s Fresh Air on 8/13/08. If you want to understand the nuts & bolts of the Russo/Georgian relationship take a sip from this media stream.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Only because the queen frowns upon the term skullfuckery.
ManchuCandidate: …maybe Cheney is “Clown” from the comic book “Spawn”? Then again Karl Rove would fit that role as well.
freakishlystrong: Doglessliberal: Maybe Cheney and McCain know sumptin’ we don’t know, given McCain’s recent statement at the Aspen Institute in Colorado :
“My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression.”
WTF? So, 9/11 and War on Terro’ were NOT probably serious international crises. Welcome to the McCain Doctrine.
freakishlystrong: Does Friday Coma mean “hangover?”
Darehead: With any luck at all, it will be this clinic.
“Gunmen have killed eight patients and injured six others in a drug rehabilitation centre in Mexico.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7562537.stm
SayItWithWookies: Hell, they don’t let him swing at a pinata with anything more dangerous than a wiffleball bat. I figure he’s got an empty oatmeal tube with “Brusmastar” scrawled on the side and an agent whose only job is to stand behind him making “raaaaawr-raaaawr!” sounds.
Skullbuggery is more like it. Unlike most Muscovite propaganda it does have the weird ring of truth.
tunamelt: No, that’s Saturday and Sunday coma..this is that eyes burning, headachey, nodding off so keyboard embeds in forehead, get me the hell outta this office after lunch coma…
Darehead: Age? Or selective memory? You decide…
ManchuCandidate: Okay, points for the “Fredenhall” reference.
SayItWithWookies: I don’t know, I get the sense that Bush doesn’t want much beyond a new mountain bike, nekkid pictures of Misty May, and hotdogs for lunch.
Russia invaded Georgia because Obama is a Muslim?
My friends, we are all South Ossetians now. burble. please change my diapers.
The Times says that? I said it on Wonkette first.
The Cold War is back? Time to elect our first Black Reagan President.
hunhh, hunnh, hunnh, damn, lickety my wattles. Where dat nurse! Changee my diaper now bomb bomb.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: No. Russia invaded Georgia ’cause Georgia invaded South Ossetia ’cause South Ossetia split off from Georgia ’cause Georgia split from the moribund Soviet Union ’cause somebody said somebody else should ‘tear down this wall’…cause Obama is a black muslim.
Devil’s in the details.
The Real JR Revisted:
Barack Obama = Aak! A car bomb!
Barack Obama = A… A… A K-Car Bomb.
Bush on vacation: stay out of tall buildings!
AngryBlakGuy: *shows geekdom* oh yeah, they are both Violaters by every meaning of the word.
TGY: And to think I thought it was the Jews.
Russia prefers Barack Obama! John “Nuke ‘em” McCain preemptively elected to two full terms! Film at 11!
Actually, I can see why the Russians want to sabotage Obama’s election: the more the US fucks up on the diplomatic scene, the less of a leg we have to stand on when we complain about Russia pulling similar stunts.