Posted on 08/13/2008 11:52:34 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
President Bush has directed the U.S. military to lead a humanitarian mission to Georgia where tens of thousands have been forced out of their homes following a Russian invasion last week that has been described by Georgia's president as an "ethnic cleansing."
A U.S. C-17 aircraft with humanitarian supplies already has arrived in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and another C-17 will arrive there Thursday with additional medical and humanitarian aid, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said after the president's announcement.
Speaking from the White House Rose Garden with Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Bush said the aid mission will be "vigorous and ongoing." He warned Russia not to interfere.
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Amen to that.
Wonder how long before Mother Russia sees this as “U.S. Aggression?”
I’ll add a, “God Bless Our Military” as well.
I think we should do the same to Tibet as well. I don't know why everyone chants "Free Tibet"... a better slogan is "Arm Tibet".
I think we should do the same to Tibet as well. I don't know why everyone chants "Free Tibet"... a better slogan is "Arm Tibet".
OK, so if it is so vigorous, why does it take a day to get a second flight in? And, why in the heck should we have to pay for supplies to patch up people and things that the bear damaged?
Now this is an improvement. We should have did this days ago.
Anyone seen any aid from the EU or UN yet?
You mean you don’t see air quotes around the word humanitarian? I do.
Probably cause we don’t have an C-17 anywhere near there and it takes time to gather, load and fly the supplies in.
Oh, I see the air quotes. I said on another thread that I wish we were sending in our “humanitarian” marines.
So do I, God Help Us.
Does anyone else think that we encouraged Georgia to undertake a suicide mission by attacking S. Ossetia, just so that we'd have an excuse to go to war with Russia?
Onward!
Because nobody else will.
military aid destined for Israel
Israeli lobby? Sometime, someplace a wacko liberals is gonna say this is a war for Israel.
Good! He should send military aid.
He is being tested by Putin and his responses are being closely watched by our enemies.
No
Of course not. IMHO, that’s like saying we bombed the Towers to start a war with Iraq.
Russia has done things like this all throughout its history. My Dad lived through World War II and has been telling me for years that Russia was just biding its time until it started trying to take over Europe again.
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