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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 04:08 PM
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John McCain on Russia: Angry, Bellicose, Belligerent and Extreme
John McCain on Russia: Angry, Bellicose, Belligerent and Extreme
by Brent Budowsky | August 14, 2008


John McCain needs to calm down, stop telling the world he speaks for the American people, stop escalating his warlike rhetoric almost by the hour, and stop the phony tough talk that makes a bad situation worse and would only heighten the danger at a dangerous enough moment.

McCain takes too much advice from a lobbyist who makes money paid for by Georgia. He takes too much bandwidth making threats that neither he nor President Bush nor any American president can back up without creating even more damage to American security and more danger to world security.

John McCain should stop talking as though he is the president, and Americans should and I predict will take note of the dangers he would bring, if he ever is the president.

This is true: The Georgians overreached and may have been misled, deliberately by misjudgment or accidentally by mistake, by George Bush and John McCain, into believing that the American military would support them, whatever they did.

This, too, is true: Vladimir Putin is a dangerous man indeed who wants to reconstitute as much of the Soviet empire as he can. We should have no illusions about the dangers caused by this former henchman of the KGB who has adopted repressive tactics at home and launched cruel actions and threats against democratically elected governments in what he believes should be Russia's sphere of influence and control.

This, too, is true: The Bush and McCain obsession with Iraq and Iran has not only done grave damage to our military force structures and deterrent, they have warped our international policy, endangered our national security and created a crisis of inattention from Pakistan to Russia that makes the world a far more dangerous place.

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classysassy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-08 06:13 PM
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1. Honest John
why weren't you so caring about the Katrina victims,they paid taxes to support scum like you?.
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