Sr. Admin Official: Bush "Was Writing Checks To Georgians WITHOUT Knowing What He Had In The Bank"

Another flub? Bush vowed Navy aid to Georgia too soon
By Jonathan S. Landay | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — President Bush Wednesday promised that U.S. naval forces would deliver humanitarian aid to war-torn Georgia before his administration had received approval from Turkey, which controls naval access to the Black Sea, or the Pentagon had planned a seaborne operation, U.S. officials said Thursday.

As of late Thursday, Ankara, a NATO ally, hadn't cleared any U.S. naval vessels to steam to Georgia through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles, the narrow straits that connect the Mediterranean and the Black Seas, the officials said. Under the 1936 Montreaux Convention, countries must notify Turkey before sending warships through the straits.

Pentagon officials told McClatchy that they were increasingly dubious that any U.S. Navy vessels would join the aid operation, in large part because the U.S.-based hospital ships likely to go, the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, would take weeks to arrive.

"The president was writing checks to the Georgians without knowing what he had in the bank," said a senior administration official.

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He has bankrupted America, morally and financially.

and then break through a Russian blockade? With a few small ships? Go find yourself some other sacrificial lambs."

I bet clueless McCain would make the same boo boo.

Obama is such a planner, he would have figured it out.

Seriously do you think Turkey is really holding us back? Or is Bush hiding behind this excuse to avoid a fight like a school yard bully when he finds someone who won't back down from him?

Don't let those evil tax and spend liberals get their hands on that money which does not exist.

whether Turkey would go along with Bush's plan, not about actual money.

The leader of the free world is completely fucking clueless.

"a senior administration official" who said that about Bush--i.e., his "boss." The administration's "tight ship" that we kept hearing about seems to have sprung more than a few leaks.

"Maverick, your ego's writing checks your body can't cash"....

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