Georgia On His Mind

Fayyad — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:45:00 +0000

After his initial choice for campaign song, Abba’s Dancing Queen, was objected to by the republican-supporting group Americans United Against Swedes And Gays, John McCain seized on current affairs and snagged Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind” before democratic rival Obama get’s to it, reports Chaim Sugarman. McCain’s hope now is that the conflict lasts through the republican convention, so that his latest foreign policy platform remains relevant.

Things were not all fine and dandy for McCain, however, Georgia’s republican party withdrew its support for the presidential candidate after he called their state “remote” and “obscure”.

“World history is often made in remote obscure countries,” McCain said. “It is being made in Georgia today. It’s the responsibility of the leading nations of the world to ensure history continues to be a record of humanity’s progress toward respecting the values and security of free people.”
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“As you know, over the past several days we’ve seen that international aggression is,
tragically, not a thing of the past,” McCain told the audience. “We thought we put a lot of that behind us at the end of the 20th century. But now it’s rearing its ugly head in the 21st … [in] the small of nation of Georgia.”

Chaim Sugarman revealed that McCain has been in a coma since late 2002, and has not yet been told of the US invasion of Iraq and the toppling of its government.

KABOBfest’s special assignment got a bit snarky following up on the remarks by US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice on the matter:

“This is no longer 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, when a great power invaded a small neighbor and overthrew its government,” Rice said. “The free world will now have to wrestle with the profound implications of this Russian attack on its neighbor, for security in the region and beyond.”

“The Free World will not be available to wrestle with the implications of this matter until 2029, as it will be busy wrestling with the security implications of its own invasion and aggression against Iraq in 2003 and Iran in 2009.” Said Sugarman.

However, Sugarman was left speechless after hearing President Bush speak on the issue: “Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century,” said president Bush.

I would be hard pressed trying to justify Russia’s action, the most likely scenario that Georgia’s adventures in that one small province were a western-backed provocation to gage Russia’s tolerance and response. Russia read the message, and decided to show no tolerance and plenty of response. Point made.

Ultimately, Georgia’s approach to South Ossetia and Abkhazia is similar to Russia’s criminal approach to Chechnya; If Georgia has the right to be independent from the former Soviet Union, why don’t these small regions of ethnic minorities get to?

A final thought, the Georgian president, Mikhail Saakasomething is a douche bag. Why is he talking like he is entitled to massive US support? He’s no Israel, the US owes massive, unconditional support only to Israel. Besides, his AGPAC lobby in Washington is not all that powerful yet, all the support they have so far mustered up is the two senators from Georgia, and one senator from Arizona who actually still lives in 1968 and is still nervous about the tide of the Evil Empire.

[KABOBphoto Tarboush tip: P. Buydatti]

I Didn’t Know Atlanta Was So Dangerous!

Programmer Buydatti — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:24:00 +0000

A sniper popped Georgian Television reporter Tamara Urushadze in the forearm live on television… a minute later, she continues with her broadcast.

http://www.liveleak.com/e/606_1218731508

Will, you should recruit bloggers like this — cause I sure as hell wouldn’t take a bullet for KABOBfest.

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Georgia On His Mind

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