Posted on 08/13/2008 7:38:32 AM PDT by maquiladora
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush spoke to Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili on Wednesday and will make remarks on the conflict between Georgia and Russia at 11:00 am (1500 GMT), the White House said.
Bush -- who spent the morning in the "Situation Room," his high-tech national security nerve center in the mansion's basement -- was to make his remarks in the Rose Garden outside his Oval Office.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice scrapped a planned morning press conference to deliver Washington's formal diplomatic answer to the bitter conflict and was expected to be at the president's side.
"The president will make a statement on Georgia later today," said spokeswoman Dana Perino, who declined to give details from Bush's talks with Saakashvili. An aide later said the remarks would be at 11:00 am.
It was not immediately clear what Bush would say, though Washington has been mulling diplomatic retaliation for Russia's operations in Georgia and has called an extraordinary meeting of NATO alliance foreign ministers next week.
(Excerpt) Read more at afp.google.com ...
Russia was upset a year or two back that Georgia had bought drones from Israel, IIRC.
Streaming links for MS player
CNN Live
http://cnn-cnnlive-1-primary.wm.llnwd.net/cnn_cnnlive_1_primary
FoxNews Live
http://foxnews-stream1.wm.llnwd.net/foxnews_stream1
[These may or may not broadcast the statement of President Bush.]
Pushed back a little due to situation on the ground changing rapidly.
Whitehouse.gov also has a stream
” Whitehouse.gov also has a stream “
Dialup and TV deprived, here — someone please keep us more unfortunate souls updated??
Please??
Well, I’m expecting no more than a Sternly Worded Note of Condemnation printed in Large and Decisive-Looking Characters, but perhaps I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
On a conference call so please let us know what is happening.
CSPAN 1 streaming link for MS Player. Copy and paste the following in the Open URL
mms://rx-wes-sea157.rbn.com/farm/pull/tx-rbn-sea001:1459/wmtencoder/cspan/cspan/wmlive/cspan1v.asf
I’m on a conf call too! Dang.
I’ll take FNC over CNN any day of the week, thank you.
The best thing that could happen IMO would be for some military folks from Georgia to slip into Russia and blow up some huge military complex up.
That my friend would make them think twice.
If they do that, they should also consider leaving a note behind saying “Compliments of Iran”.
Is anyone listening to the reporters blabbing in the background?
Whitehouse.gov stream link. Copy and paste the following into the Open URL for MsPlayer
mms://a404.l591344403.c5913.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/404/5913/v0001/reflector:44403
Thanks for the fox link. There was some interesting conversation going on on an open mic a minute ago.
No. That's why the MSM is doomed.
Really? Tell, tell...
do tell
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