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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Lets see if we understand this idiots liberal line of thought.
To scare American into voting for McCain, George Bush called Putin and said
BUSH: Hey Putty baby, howabout invading that little dinky country there Georgia and slaughtering some civilians so we can make you out to be a real threat to world peace and America safety.
Putin: Why Georgia Bushki?
Bush: Ya know we gotta Georgia over hre someplace and you know our conservatives are kinda slow and they might think its there Georgia and get real mad and vote for McCain.
Putin: Okay Bushki. But you will owe me big time for this one. Something like the keys to Iraq when your done?
Are these people (Scheer) really from the same planet we are from?
Wogs start at Calais.
Scheer seems to believe that Georgia attacked Osettia and the Russians simply counter attacked after this provocation. This operation was planned and forces deployed far in advance of Friday August 8.As Ralph Peters said yesterday, anyone with a grade above private knows you do not plan and deploy an offensive of 2+ armored divisions, supporting air and naval forces, from a standing start in 12 hours. The reality is that Georgian leadership was baited and fell for it. (Assuming the report of a Georgian move into Osettia is true and not simply a maskirova, of which th Russians are long famous.)
Finally it seems that the leftist press in the US is approaching a concensus that Russia has a legitimate interest in limiting or outright controlling the decisions made by its former republics and satellites based on geography and history and understandable Russian paranoia. It was that kind of thinking that delivered eastern Europe into 50 years of slavery and decline after WW2. It was that kind of thinking that defended the agreements at Yalta. It was that kind of thinking that both JFK and Ronald Reagan condemned and stood against when they spoke in Berlin. We are about to enter a new Cold War and the left and liberals in this country are not only accepting of the thought of delivering free peoples into the control of Russia they are demanding it.
This election has become more than a contest for power. More than a choice between economic liberty and the nanny state. It has become a struggle for the soul of America. Who we are as a people. Do we stand for Liberty? Or do we stand for conceding the rights of others and eventually our own as well in order to produce a world of peaceful compliance?
From Horowitz's website, Discover the Networks. Communist is a reasonable label. He has all the qualifications of an Obama supporter
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Scheer idiocy.
These people are delusional.
TRANSLATION: His boy Barack is useless in tough foreign policy situations. Barack would make a good secretary of HUD and that's as high as he should go
Some Dem was test-driving the party line yesterday, and it was Bush’s fault because we were caught by surprise: Massive intelligence failure by this administration.
Thanks for the post.
Scheer is one of those people who, if one had any doubt of whether they were on the side of good or evil, would make that crystal clear to any honest person.
Great job exposing this certified POS.
Scheer knows exactly what Communism is. Indeed, when Gorbachev committed the Soviet Union to Glasnost, Scheer was inspired to switch his allegiance from the Soviets to Kim Jong-Il's North Korean regime.
So, here is a guy who enjoys the benefits of free speech in a free country -- but uses his free speech to promote the most repressive regime on earth.
Which brings up a question: how did such a vermin get his gig as a national columnist? When working for the Los Angles Times, he married the editor's daughter.
Scheer = box of tools.
This guy must have and advanced case of AIDs from his San Francisco butt buddies and it has affected his brain...
Every time the official lunacy level of the democratic party and its leftist minions can not possibly be topped, another Scheer type comes along. Now the republican party has evidently caused the Russians to invade Georgia just to influence the election. No one really needs to comment on this.
The human mind has a deep affinity for conspiracy theories. They negate the need to take responsibility for ones own actions, since the conspiracy will defeat you no matter what you try to do. They are a ready made excuse for failure, real or perceived. They can never be disproved and attempts to do do so inevitably feed the delusion.
Do the libs actually think Bush is going to step down?
“And we do not have a serious or professional news media to protect the unwitting public from these Democrat shysters.”
Nope, just amateurs in pajamas.
I like that, good post.
But it's true, wideawake. The great and powerful Wizard of AZ makes The Obamessiah look like a birthday party magician. He turned the first black President into a racist knocking the mighty Hildebeast on her ample butt. He alters birth certificates with his mind. He causes uncontrollable stuttering from thousands of miles away. I'm waiting for him to turn Barack into a chupacabra at Coors Field in front of thousands of witnesses.
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