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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Actually, this mental midget has been pumping out this bilge clear back into the 70s, if not before. If anything Pat would be pumping out his bilge.
Sheer has one of the most twisted political minds I have ever seen.
Absolutely, Russia’s imperial war for oil and empire MUST be Bush’s fault.
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.
unmitigated idiocy
"DNA" are the wrong three letters, Bob. The three letters you're looking for are "KGB."
Another sterling example of Scheer idiocy.
Absurd.
What a blinded moron!
Our state department was begging Georgia not to take the Russian bait and launch an assault.
If John McCain can engineer a made-to-order international crisis with the Presidents of France, Russia and Georgia all as his unwitting puppets why would he need to run for President of the USA?
He's already far more powerful.
Um, ok?
This reminds me of the Kerry debacle and his stupidity being blamed on Rove back on ‘04.
Because the MSM are in on these scams, corrupt grifters all.
Yo Scheer, I think your dope has backed up on you.
Scheer is a strong supporter of the KGB.
He's been working for them since the sixties.
The fact that South Ossetian militia are kidnapping young Georgian children today shows what Georgia has had to put up with out of them.
for those of you familiar with David Horowitz & his
anti communist website FrontPage Magazine. i once heard david comment that robert sheer is a communist.
you’ll find a few articles on frontpagemag.com mentioning
sheer.... do a search.
I find alot of dumbies in America are all for Communism and don’t really understand what that is or how it affects people.
On youtube the other day, I saw a poster comment about the little girl who sang for the “pretty girl” in China. The maroon said “I would have yanked my daughter out of there in a heartbeat. She wouldn’t have used her voice for that sham”. Another poster said “You must not understand what communism is and how it works.”
I laughed out loud.
Robert Scheer is a pretty despicable person. He always has been. I really should order a case of TP with his face on it.
Garbage issue? Scheer thinks of Georgia and Georgians as garbage? Behold the compassionate liberal.
In Scheers case more like 'Huffing the Bong!'
Let me get this straight.
The GOP, that has trouble mustering enough energy to stand up to the likes of Nancy Pelosi, is solely responsible for orchestrating a war between Russia and a former Soviet satellite state for the purpose of getting John McCain elected in November?!
Uh, sure.
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