"The Neocons Do Georgia"

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http://counterpunch.com/roberts08152008.html


Humanity's Greatest Enemy?


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America will never recover from the shame and dishonor heaped upon her by the neoconned Bush Regime.

The success of the neocon propaganda has been so great that the opposition party has not lifted a finger to rein in the Bush Regime’s criminal actions. Even Obama, who promises “change” is too intimidated by the neocon’s success in brainwashing the American population to do what his supporters hoped he would do and lead us out of the shame in which the neoconned Bush Regime has imprisoned us.

This about sums up the pessimistic state in which I existed prior to the go-ahead given by the Bush Regime to its puppet in Georgia to ethnically cleanse South Ossetia of Russians in order to defuse the separatist movement. The American media, aka, the Ministry of Lies and Deceit, again accommodated the criminal Bush Regime and proclaimed “Russian invasion” to cover up the ethnic cleansing of Russians in South Ossetia by the Georgian military assault.

Only this time, the rest of the world didn’t buy it. The many years of lies--9/11, Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda connections, yellowcake, anthrax attack, Iranian nukes, “the United States doesn’t torture,” the bombings of weddings, funerals, and children’s soccer games, Abu Ghraib, renditions, Guantanamo, various fabricated “terrorist plots,” the determined assault on civil liberties--have taken their toll on American credibility. No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government.

The rest of the world reported the facts--an assault on Russian civilians by American and Israeli trained and equipped Georgian troops.

The Bush Regime, overcome by hubris, expected Russia to accept this act of American hegemony. But the Russians did not, and the Georgian military was sent fleeing for its life.

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The neoconservatives represent the greatest danger ever faced by the United States and the world. Humanity has no greater enemy.
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[BOSSHOG]

1. Happy to recommend

Great read and right on target.

[BurtWorm]

2. Amen.

[anonymous171]

3. I miss non-intervention.

[theboss]

4. So now we told them to ethnically cleanse South Ossetia

Yea....that's not a reach.

[psquare]

5. Anyone who says that ethnic cleansing was given a go-ahead needs some evidence

to back it up. The actual decision had to have some sort of blessing by the US, I just wonder how far up it went.
There is lots to consider about this whole affair -
- Georgia has US military support of around $1B a year, including training and advisors.
- This same military got their butts kicked, and as of now is a force in name only.
- Obviously Russia knew that the Georgians were going to move into South Ossetia, and built up their forces for their own counterstrike.
- Nothing is going to get done now without Putin getting mostly what he wants.

[PurgedVoter]

6. This entire issue is actually pretty clear. K@R

McCain and Bush and all their horses and men, are saying it is simple. Georgia good, Russia bad.
The Neocons are all saying it is simple, Georgia good, Russia bad.
Come to find out, that there are human beings. People with families. Children. And they were bombed by Georgia.
It looks like it is complex. But humans who did no wrong, worked, lived and were members of families, were killed by Georgia. If Georgia was their government, then they are evil. If Georgia is not their government, then, they are evil. Russia, responded, and maybe their response was biased by other issues, maybe they have used excessive force.

It is clear that the conservative/neocon desire is for us to not see past what they are painting, and what they are painting is not quite right. Makes it clear to me.

[AntiFascist]

7. K&R, Gorbachev was livid - he called Georgia's actions 'barbaric'....

CNN was obviously embarassed by giving this interview and is now trying hard to cover up this leak.