This is UNBELIEVABLE- Ambassador Richard Holbrook is in Georgia and is saying Russia DELIBERATELY provoked Georgia- he’s said it in half a dozen ways- saying he’s seen the signs of ethnic cleansing- you’d thinkg it was Condi speaking to listen to him. He’s furious with Putin.
I’m stunned. Aren’t the lib talking points that this is Georgia’s fault and that Russia is only at fault as much as Georgia? Didn’t he get the memos?
If Holbrook is indeed saying these things (i.e. it is Russia’s fault) then we should acknowledge his honesty and attempt to redeem himself among honorable Americans.
DBM is so lacking in news finding and so full of bias. For one thing I’d like to know how all those savage Chechnians got in there to rape, pillage and plunder. I would not be surprised if the Russians airlifted them in after emptying their prisons and mental hospitals (ala Castro’s Mariel stunt). So now the Ruskies say, “I ain’t us. It is a spontaneous outburst of freedom fighters.”
“I’m stunned. Aren’t the lib talking points that this is Georgia’s fault and that Russia is only at fault as much as Georgia? Didn’t he get the memos?”
They seem to be trying that, but they must not be paying attention to the whole rest of the world. See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063072/posts posted yesterday by kristinn. It’s an article by Reuters and my favorite lines from it are:
Commentators in Russia said Moscow was caught off guard by this reaction from its ex-Soviet neighbors.
“Everyone in Moscow thought: ‘We are in the right and the enemy will be destroyed’, but in Minsk and other CIS capitals everyone was in disarray,” Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily wrote.
“This has totally paralyzed the CIS leaders including Belarus. Moscow did not expect this from its closest ally.”
Well, I didn’t expect it from R. Holbrook (to say) or Reuters (to report it straight) either. Poor Andrea Mitchell is going to feel really lonely out there twisting in the wind as she tries to feebly insinuate that “Georgia did... something.”
This has been a huge loser for Russia and the DBM who try to pretend otherwise are going to come up losers too. Even Claire McCaskill on FNS was very clear that it was Russian aggression and WRONG.
OTOH she kept her hand in as a doofus when she tried to say that McCain had overstepped his bounds by speaking too strongly about Russia because we have to be bipartisan about this and support our President and SecState and we only have one President at a time. She seemed to think McCain undercut President Bush. Pretty weak try IMO especially as what McCain said pretty much went along with what President and SecState were saying.