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talkingpointsmemo.com - 8/12/2008
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You can see the extremely bellicose statements of Vice President Cheney and Sen. McCain (soul mates on this issue) on the conflict in Georgia. And a number of Democratic-affiliated foreign policy hands are roughly on the same side of this issue, if not quite as utterly nuts and eager to get into a war with Russia as Cheney and McCain. But let me briefly (I hope to come back to this later ...

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Riehl World View:  The Losers Of The Left

BAGnewsNotes:  George Has Georgia's Back

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The Losers Of The Left
Riehl World View — ... Witness Josh Marshall's pathetic hand wringing over Georgia, doing everything he can manage to blame Bush. And when not doing that, he suggests that it's all Georgia's fault really. Who are they to attempt to actually control the breadth of their nation? Don't they understand? ...

George Has Georgia's Back
BAGnewsNotes — ... and rebuffed Bush.  Otherwise, we could well be looking at the U.S. being forced to go to war with Russia this week in defense of a NATO ally -- not to mention interjecting ourselves in an ethnic and separatist conflict that is arguably far beyond our scope of interest. ...

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