Just this April the French and Germans Objected to Bush's plan to put Georgia in NATO

[bronxiteforever]

Imagine this as a NATO conflict-YIKES

Allies reject Bush's call for NATO role for Ukraine, Georgia
By Steven Erlanger and Steven Lee Myers
New York Times News Service / April 3, 2008

Bush believes Ukraine and Georgia should be welcomed into a Membership Action Plan, or MAP, which prepares nations for NATO membership. The US stance contradicts German and French positions stated earlier this week, and it risked upsetting efforts to persuade Russia to soften its opposition to a missile defense array in Eastern Europe.

Bush, entering his last NATO summit as president, was described by the official as wanting to "lay down a marker" for his legacy and not wanting to "lose faith" with the Ukrainian and Georgian peoples and the other former republics of the Soviet Union.

Normally, summit meetings are pre-scripted, but Bush's comments added some extra interest while annoying German and French officials, who had said they would block the invitation to Ukraine and Georgia. Officials from those nations had said they believed that since neither Ukraine nor Georgia is stable enough to enter the program now, a membership plan would be an unnecessary offense to Russia.

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/04/03/allies_reject_bushs_call_for_nato_role_for_ukraine_georgia/

[malaise]

1. And in July Condi showed up

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3766315

[bronxiteforever]

3. Excellent Point!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

2. Alienating the hearts and minds of the world...

that's the legacy the moran-in-chief has earned.

[bronxiteforever]

4. The best part of the article is Shrub "laying down a marker". I mean WTF?