God bless Poland.
Brave souls. I wish them luck and safe travel.
There are five Presidents with guts. And they realize what this is all about - restoring the Soviet Empire.
They better hurry up, though, while there is still a Georgia to fly to.
We were hoping Bush or Cheney would make the same trip.
Thank God for Poland. Its important that you guys do this.
Unfortunately for Russia, these folks [as opposed to us] remember. Anti Commie solidarity, you gotta love it:
They better hurry...doesn’t sound like there will be a Georgia for very long.
Bush and McCain should accompany them. But this takes guts and balls. The Poles and fellow Eastern Europeans who suffered under the Russian heel for so long, have more balls, guts and backbone than the whole US Government together. God Bless them. They will go down in the history as real men who faced a tyrant.
These Presidents certainly must understand that if Russia is allowed to “intervene on behalf of ‘oppressed’ ethnic Russsians” in Georgia, then it could be only a matter of time before Russia “intervenes on behalf of ‘oppressed’ Russians” in Lithuania or The Ukraine.
Take a look at this.
Suddenly I’m forced to have to change my mind. Bush should attend as well.
You guys were right.
This goes to show you that, for the Poles, “Solidarity” is more than the name of a labor union. Godspeed the Fearless Five!
Wow- what a great gesture of support.
If you are posting from Poland, kudos to your President.
If not, I admire what he is doing.
When I read this it really moved me.
A complimentary piece to the 5 Presidents...http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3453/print
Sarkozy is also going to Tbilisi and Moscow.
President Bush will be speaking about 5:15 today.
God bless them.
I heard on the radio they want to dump Russia out of the G8 for this. That Putin, makin’ friends ever day eh?
At least some statesmen can remember all the way back to the day before yesterday!
God bless them.
Tell them to man up!
All we need to do is put the Minutemen back on target against Russia and kick the Russian observers out of the Pentagon. That should make Putin and his mini-me not sleep so tight tonight.
Next we need to declare a no-fly zone over Georgia and enforce it with our air craft based in Turkey and Iraq.
Finally, we should be dropping in airborne troops into Tbilisi to prevent the Russians from advancing on it. With the ready brigade of either the 82nd, 101st, or 173rd at the Tbilisi airport acting as a “trip wire” the Russian will not dare to enter the capital or to advance any further into Georgia. When they thought Eisenhower was going to send armored divisions from Germany across Austria (which was neutralized) and into Hungary during the 1956 uprising, Khrushchev and Malinkov hesitated for two week before putting down the rebellion. It was only until John Foster Dulles threw the Hungarians to the wolves by announcing that the US would not intervene that the Russians moved. Once those jokers start looking back down the barrels of American guns they'll stop moving forward and begin negotiations.
Come on, Bush: Don’t abandon a good ally. Don’t do a Chamberlain. A united response (and it does NOT have to be military) can save Georgia, and by extension the New Europe, and thus, the Old. Don’t go wobbly, Mr. President!