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Posted on 08/13/2008 7:43:05 AM PDT by SmithL
Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the U.S. presidential election?
Before you dismiss that possibility, consider the role of one Randy Scheunemann, for four years a paid lobbyist for the Georgian government, ending his official lobbying connection only in March, months after he became Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain's senior foreign policy adviser.
Previously, Scheunemann was best known as one of the neoconservatives who engineered the war in Iraq when he was a director of the Project for a New American Century. It was Scheunemann who, after working on the McCain 2000 presidential campaign, headed the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, which championed the U.S. Iraq invasion.
There are telltale signs that he played a similar role in the recent Georgia flare-up. How else to explain the folly of his close friend and former employer, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, in ordering an invasion of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, which clearly was expected to produce a Russian counter-reaction. It is inconceivable that Saakashvili would have triggered this dangerous escalation without some assurance from influential Americans he trusted, like Scheunemann, that the United States would have his back. Scheunemann long guided McCain in these matters, even before he was officially running foreign policy for McCain's presidential campaign.
In 2005, while registered as a paid lobbyist for Georgia, Scheunemann worked with McCain to draft a congressional resolution pushing for Georgia's membership in NATO. A year later, while still on the Georgian payroll, Scheunemann accompanied McCain on a trip to that country, where they met with Saakashvili and supported his bellicose views toward Russia's Vladimir Putin.
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Dagging the wog?.................
Or that Obama had once gone to Georgia to get some peanut brittle. How about that for a strange coincidence???
This guy and most people in San Francisco are so full of BDS, they need to be put down.
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Liberalism is a sickness.
This is a pretty despicable article, on multiple levels. These people never stop.
Idiot moonbats still don't know that these fairy tales are just fund-raisers for the Dems?
Gullible fools and their $$$$.
Nice to see someone filling Pat Buchanan’s shoes.
You can always count on the leftist’s ‘tape loop’ narrative. They completely lack ANY critical thinking at all.
Wag the dog....check
Israeli lobby...next
US as terrorist nation....soon
War for profit..........eventually.
Scheer is a disturbed individual. If he were a right-wing wacko he’d be summarily dismissed and reviled. Since he’s a left-wing wackjob, he has a constant gig as an writer.
Insanity
Bob Screech needs to get his facts straight. Mikhail Saakashvili was put into power with the help of $45 million in direct aid from none other than Geoge Soros.
Thanks Mr. Scheer! For that, you win the Captain Obvious Award!
The Georgian president was financed by George Soros. I doubt McCain is connected to this but one wonders what Obama would have done if he’d been president considering the Russians hate Soros.
I can’t believe idiots like Scheer actually get published. Mc Cain must have called Putin and told him to send those armored columns into GA...What a jerk.
Propaganda does not have to pan out. If the goal is to set a mood, and have that mood influence people's decisions on a deep level, then this sort of relentless BDS works.
If you bombard the peoples of a nation with a continuous stream of stuff like this, it will have an effect. Yes, fundraising is part of it, but I think the goal is to color people's perceptions.
If you get one person to see through one of these stories, he'll pick up nine more just watching TV.
Let’s see. Get the Georgian President under mind control and have thousands of his citizens get murdered and maybe his country destroyed just to get McCain elected? And some people wonder why newspapers are dying? This column is example A of why.
I'm going to go with "because the South Ossetians were bombarding Georgian villages, and because Saakashvili isn't Olmert and so actually did something when his people were being murdered from afar by artillery"
Your daily Moment of Leftist Moonbat Zen.
Robert Scheer needs a close shave with Occam’s Razor.
Russia has returned to its imperailist tsarist ways with Putin wearing the crown.
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