Georgia president demands timetable to join NATO - Sounds hysterical to me

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2008/November/international_November1443.xml§ion=international

MUNICH - Georgian President Mihvili demanded Thursday that his Caucasus republic be offered a timetable showing what it must do to qualify for membership in NATO.

"Not offering Georgia a plan of action leading to membership will send the wrong signal to the wrong people," he said in Munich, paying his first visit to Germany since his nation's war with Russia this summer.

Russia has strongly opposed Georgia being absorbed into NATO, insisting that the former Soviet republic belongs to its sphere of influence. Timetables offer new entrants a transition period to reshape their military institutions to NATO standards.

He met Thursday with the premier of Bavaria state, Horst Seehofer, and opened an honorary Georgian consulate in Munich.

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1. He could just be looking for some action

The Bush junta has been promising Georgia the freaking moon for years and delivering a grand total of nothing to them. Kind of like the rest of the Bush legacy. Is there any part of the world that George Bush hasn't totally fucked up? He's probably trying to arm the Antarctic station with some kind of missile as we speak.

If NATO membership is an option for Georgia they have a right to know what they have to do to gain it. If not, they should be told. This carrot dangling followed by nothing is very destabalizing IMO.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Bush wants his cake and eat it too

He wanted Georgian troops to be part of his "coalition of the willing" and be in the US sphere of influence, but Bush never had any plans on going to war with Russia over Georgia.

The Russian tanks rolled in and we stood back and wrung our hands about it but thats about all.

Don

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. Georgia has their own President?? Is Atlanta still the Capitol?

</channeling Sarah Palin>


:evilgrin: