McCain Says Russia Faces Severe Fallout Over Georgia

Source: Reuters

ERIE, Pa., Aug 11 (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate John McCain, flashing his foreign policy credentials while rival Barack Obama is on vacation, warned Russia on Monday of severe, long-term consequences from its conflict with Georgia.

The Republican senator from Arizona, who has made international issues the centerpiece of his campaign for the Nov. 4 election, offered a lengthy discourse on the crisis in the Caucasus for reporters and cameras.

He said Russia appeared intent on toppling Georgia's pro-Western government rather than returning to the status quo in South Ossetia, which Tbilisi is trying to keep from breaking away.

McCain called on U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to travel to Europe "to establish a common Euro-Atlantic position aimed at ending the war and supporting the independence of Georgia."
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McCain opened his remarks with what might be seen as a subtle dig at Obama, who is on holiday in Hawaii.

AUGUST VACATIONING

"Americans wishing to spend August vacationing with their families or watching the Olympics may wonder why their newspapers and television screens are filled with images of war in the small country of Georgia," he said before launching into a lengthy explanation of Georgia's recent history.

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As I suggested yesterday, the GOP is going to use this event to their advantage and exploit the fact that Obama is 'on vacation'...

This is a good time for Obama to point out the foreign policy failures of Bush and point out...McCain is McSame. Rice was just there...and didn't see this coming? Bush was right next to Putin at the Olympics...and couldn't do a thing?

I sure hope someone in Obama's camp quickly siezes this opportunity and points out the failures before McCain's side defines it.

located right at the Iraq/Pakistan border.

with the Russians too much over this, everyone might be facing "severe fallout" pretty soon.

Of the radioactive kind...

The U.S. power structure seems set on turning this into a cold war redux. It will be interesting to see if Obama dares to take a more nuanced position.

Georgia was behaving like a teenager beating up a kindergarten student, until the Russian adult started beating up the teenager. Now the teenager is hypocritically crying foul. No sympathy for Georgia from me.

I hate land grabs. I think the President of Georgia should immediately step down so that a treaty can be brokered.

What a moron. The guy knows whats up because he reads it on wiki (which anyone can edit), and then distills THAT for the rest of us? Thats what he brings to the table? I'm not impressed. And he wants to provoke Russia who is stepping in after Georgia started the fight. McCain should stick to screaming at his wife (you trollop faced cunt!! -- quote,John McCain to his wife), entering his wife in topless beauty contests, and yelling at kids to stay off his lawn, and leave serious matters to more serious people. He was the bottom of the class all through college and through the military, he can't help but continue to be a failure if he's elected. He has the same life record of non-acheivement that Bush has, and look how he turned out.

Republicans love morons I think. The dumber and less capable the better.

He's only where he is in life because of his dad, and also due to his incompetance as a pilot that got him shot down and tortured, giving him material for a sentimentally effective PR campaign to get him elected. Really, he can thank high oil prices, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter for getthing him where he is. If not for the high oil prices causing the economic downturn of the late-70s, as well as Reagan's effective persona as a cartoon character mascot for the sociopathic corporate gangsters, there's probably no way in hell he could have been elected on his own merits. He's been opportunistically riding other people's coattails his whole life.

He's of no substance whatsoever on his own. He's nothing.






Nothing.

He's moronic regardless of any age-related excuses his corporate apologists in the media want to throw out there for him. It's not "dementia." It's stupidity and intellectual ineptitude. Period.

I'm a bomb baby and have visions of this ending in nukes. :nuke::nuke:

Dubya wants to be a "noocoolar president". He's already proven to be a "bomb president".