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Bolton: “The United States fiddled while Georgia burned”
hotair.com - 8/15/2008
Bolton: “The United States fiddled while Georgia burned”
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A hard tonic that mixes only too well, unfortunately, with reports like this one of Bush “writing checks to the Georgians without knowing what he had in the bank,” as one senior U.S. [...] Read the rest »

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Stop The ACLU:  What Would Obama Do About the Russia/Georgia Conflict?

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What Would Obama Do About the Russia/Georgia Conflict?
Stop The ACLU — ... to the White House, the one Hillary Clinton referred to in a campaign ad questioning Barack Obama’s fitness for the Presidency. Moreover, the blood on the Bear’s claws did not go unobserved in other states that were once part of the Soviet Union. Russia demonstrated unambiguously that it could have marched directly to Tbilisi and installed a puppet government before any Western leader was able to turn away from the Olympic Games. It could, presumably, do the same to them. Hat tip: Hot Air and Any Bryant.

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