McCain: SHUT UP about Georgia

[LuckyTheDog]

Hey, McCain:

We don't need your blustering saber rattling right now. This is a dangerous situation and the last thing we need is for you to go blustering in with your tough talk.

I'd like to get out of this without losing 100 American cities. Is that Ok with you, dumb ass?

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c3508ce2-67d1-11dd-8d3b-0000779fd18c.html

It took four days and a growing chorus of criticism from conservatives before George W. Bush on Monday matched John McCain’s tough stance on Russia. Having on Monday morning again been upstaged by the Republican presidential candidate, who had called for the US administration to come together with its allies in “universal condemnation of Russian aggression” in Georgia, Mr Bush finally followed suit.

In a late afternoon statement following his return from the Olympics in Beijing, Mr Bush accused Russia of a “dramatic and brutal escalation” in Georgia with the aim of overthrowing its “duly-elected government”.

The statement, which was noticeably tougher than the administration’s previous comments on the crisis, followed a phone call on Sunday from Dick Cheney, the vice-president, to Mikheil Saakashvili, the Georgian president, in which he said that “Russian aggression must not go unanswered”.

But it was Mr McCain who set the initial tone with a strong statement last Friday several hours before official word from the administration – and then again on Monday morning with a shopping list of tough policy responses for Mr Bush. These included shoring up support for Ukraine, which hosts Russia’s Crimean fleet, and steps to protect the Caspian pipeline that runs from Azerbaijan to Turkey via Georgia – all allies of the US.

[polichick]

1. This is good - voters are seeing what a war-crazy whack job this guy is.

[LuckyTheDog]

2. We need to SAY that

Obama's people need to point out here just how dangerous McCain's rhetoric is. They need to invoke the image of losing 100 U.S. cities -- because that could happen.

[polichick]

3. I agree - hopefully Barack will choose a veep who is comfortable speaking the hard truths...

Wes Clark definitely has the experience and the guts to do it ~ he's looking better and better to me!

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. This ios laughable: Russia stopped exactly when it won, and no sooner

The US was completely impotent to do anything.