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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:36 PM
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Bush: Why don’t you shut up? (Russia Pravda)
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/106067-1/

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President Bush,

Why don’t you shut up? Your American transport aircraft gave a ride home to thousands of Georgian soldiers from Iraq directly into the combat zone. Did your boys wish them good luck as they stepped off the aircraft? I can almost hear it, “Give ‘em Hell!” Kinda friendly, eh?

President Bush,

Why don’t you shut up? How do you account for the fact that among the Georgian soldiers fleeing the fighting yesterday you could clearly hear officers using American English giving orders to “Get back inside” and how do you account for the fact that there are reports of American soldiers among the Georgian casualties? Kinda odd, eh?

President Bush,

Why don’t you shut up? Do you really think anyone gives any importance whatsoever to your words after 8 years of your criminal and murderous regime and policies? Do you really believe you have any moral ground whatsoever and do you really imagine there is a single human being anywhere on this planet who does not stick up his middle finger every time you appear on a TV screen? Kinda makes ya’ll think, eh?

Do you really believe you have the right to give any opinion or advice after Abu Ghraib? After Guantanamo? After the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens? After the torture by CIA operatives? Kinda difficult, eh?
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Obviously the Press in Russia don't like Bush wonder why
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:39 PM
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1. It isn't only Pravda
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/13/russia.georgia

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One thing is for sure. This week's operation in Georgia has displayed the failure of the west's policy of belligerence towards Vladimir Putin's Russia. The policy was meant to weaken Russia, and has strengthened it. The policy was meant to humiliate Russia with Nato encirclement, and has merely fed its neo-imperialism. The policy was meant to show that Russia "understands only firmness" and instead has shown the west as a bunch of tough-talking windbags.

Georgia, a supposed western ally and applicant to Nato, has been treated by Russia to a brutal lesson in power politics. The west has lost all leverage and can do nothing. Seldom was a policy so crashingly stupid.

Putin would die laughing if he read this week's American newspapers. The president, George Bush, declared the Russian invasion of Georgia "disproportionate and unacceptable". This is taken as a put-down to the vice-president, Dick Cheney, who declared the invasion "will not go unanswered", apparently something quite different. Bush says that great powers should not go about "toppling governments in the 21st century", as if he had never done such a thing. Cheney says that the invasion has "damaged Russia's standing in the world", as if Cheney gave a damn. The lobby for sanctions against Russia is reduced to threatening to boycott the winter Olympics. Big deal.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:44 PM
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2. I wish I could have read that in an American newspaper!!!!
None of them have the courage to point out that the emperor is as naked as a jaybird!!
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:48 PM
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3. You are so right on the News Media just rolls out the
propoganda machine oblivious at how their crediblity is a total loss

Why don't they shut up too
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Postman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-08 08:50 PM
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4. This is the result of the disaster in the White House. This editorial is spot on..
Edited on Tue Aug-12-08 08:50 PM by Postman
The US has lost whatever moral authority it had before the criminal Bush Administration was appointed to power.
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