Posted on 08/16/2008 8:36:34 AM PDT by Colorado Doug
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Exactly, takes months of planning and pre-positioning of that much armour to invade a country.
The logistics of the Russian invasion had to have been obviously planned ahead of time with the S.Ossetian thugs lighting the match.
Incredible to see the KGB apologists trying to argue it`s Georgia`s fault that Russia amassed the armour months in advance of their planned invasion to take place after the S.Ossetian provocations.
Since when do you have one of the combatants become "peacekeepers" ?Who allowed tne Russians to be "peacekeepers" in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
This region has been a powder keg for 14 years .
President Mikheil Saakashvili strongly urged the EU President Xavier
Solona to replace the Russians with other more neutral peacekeepers
months ago and was rejected.It would seem that the EU is supporting the Russians and contributed
to this aggression.OBTW where have State, Defense and CIA been for the past 14 years ?
You don't need Humint or spy satellites to know that you don't have a
combatant(Russia) whose leader is ex-KGB, as a"peacekeeper"It is all about World Domination by the Russians using Oil as the weapon.
I am also aware of the leaks from the CIA directly to the New York Times. And I think they are within buggering distance of the State Department when it comes to treachery. It seems undeniable that we have a fifth column operating against Republican foreign policy.
In the likely event that Obama is elected, it will be interesting to see who wins the struggle to conduct American foreign policy. Perhaps we never will "see" such a struggle because it will certainly be done sotto voce. My money is not on Obama but on the CIA. Of course, that presumes that there are any differences in policy between them. There will be another fight conducted by the rump group of some conservatives still squirreled away somewhere in the CIA.
There is another complication of all of this, we live in the post-McCarthy era and that implies that if one complains too loudly or too long about these matters he is branded a McCarthyite and the subject is closed along with the complainer' s career.
This brings us back to Dick Cheney. In addition to his concern about the quality of intelligence and his diligence in mastering it, one is struck by the total commitment by Cheney to secrecy. The Liberals characterize this as either sinister symptom of his evil doings or paranoia. I prefer to think that Cheney knew what he was about and someday he will be identified as a great American hero.
I would say that it is one that agrees with the mindset of Vlad Putin in that any former Soviet State is yet still beholden to Russia. I can tell you from experience that such men live among us here in the US, I went to college with a former Marine who fought in the first Gulf War who considers himself a Serb before an American. He would serve Serbia or Russia over defending the Constitution to which he swore a solemn oath. His Serbian flag completely covers his back as a tattoo. Last night I watched Michael Phelps win the gold against an apparent Serb who was actually born and raised in California to Serbian immigrants. I think it was pure pandering and folly as to the recognition of Kosovo by the West and most certainly a misstep on our behalf but that has little to do with what happened here. There have been millions of people leaving Russia to live amongst the free world and many of them are nothing more than moles waiting for Vlad’s plan to be executed. We will reap what we sow if we ignore this.
Interesting perspective and not at all what I expected to hear. Thanks!
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Great post on the Serb who was raised and born in California. I think he also went to Auburn for his swimming tutelage.
Russian, Serb, Chinese, Islamofacist...they are all here and since we no longer have an American centered naturalization process, we will see moles appear again and again. Unfortunately, this fact will also see more stringent civil liberty concessions out of necessity when the stuff hits the fan. Terrible and sad consequences.
Busy trying to undermine the Bush Administration, of course.
Are you for real???
Our CIA is 90% fat ass desk jockeys that you've heard called "analysts"
Also factor in all the unqualified women and affirmative action hires
And foreign born people who have minimal loyalty to America
**** Some immigrants working there are very pro-American
In the good old days they staffed the Voice of America and other anti Communist outlets
My thoughts, too.
You got to remember Plame isn’t there any longer.
“Our CIA is 90% fat ass desk jockeys that you’ve heard called “analysts””
I wold posit that that is the real problem. Way too many Ivy league pinhead types. Desk jockeying booracrats are not going to win the war on terror.
No, I'm not sensing that, whatsoever. Besides, even if CIA "had the data"; the U.S. military would have also had the data. And like bloody hell they'd have "not noticed" the movements - they would have.
Not tinfoil hat inclined here, but, I wonder if someone sent certain satellites a "cold". I'm basing this on "weapons/cyber" stuff I've been reading over the past 4 years. Russia has some amazing space programs; which the U.S. also uses.
Just thinking aloud here...
bttt
Exactly! Tail tucking appeasers (ie liberals) create more danger and cause more suffering than the warriors of the world.
Are you for real???
Dennis, Dennis, in case the sarcasm was too subtle for those who are inclined to shoot from the hip, I prefaced it with the sentence:
"Inquiring minds want to know:"
If that does not satisfy as to my political correctness Free Republic style, I refer you to my post number 45 on this thread to which you have no doubt not yet made your way.
Russia signals Georgia action August 6
Travels in the Former Soviet Union May 19
Tbilisi’s S.Ossetia Diplomatic Offensive Gains Momentum June 26, 2007
OK-— at least you gave me a chance to spout off
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