Posted on 08/15/2008 6:31:23 PM PDT by silent_jonny
This morning, after receiving an update from his national security team on the situation in Georgia, President Bush delivered a brief statement from the White House Rose Garden. (Transcript)
The United States and our allies stand with the people of Georgia and their democratically elected government. Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected. Moscow must honor its commitment to withdraw its invading forces from all Georgian territory …The people of Georgia have cast their lot with the free world, and we will not cast them aside.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia today and met face-to-face with President Mikheil Saakashvili. After meeting with the Georgian cabinet, Secretary Rice held a press conference with Saakashvili, then visited wounded Georgians in a nearby hospital.
When Secretary Rice returns to the US, she will be joined by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as they meet with President Bush at his home in Crawford, Texas.
She will bring me up to date on what she has seen and what she heard in Georgia, as well as in France. Secretary of Defense Gates will keep me briefed on the humanitarian assistance to the people of Georgia.
President & Mrs. Bush will be spending most of the remaining days of their August vacation in Crawford.
Next Wednesday (August 20), President Bush will travel to Orlando, Florida to speak to the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention. Then he will travel to New Orleans, Louisiana, to make remarks on Gulf Coast recovery and to talk about his commitment to rebuilding the Gulf Coast. From there, he will travel to Mississippi and have a dinner there with community leaders, before returning to Crawford on Wednesday night. (Source)
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice greets people with posters as she visits Tbilisi for talks with Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili on August 15, 2008. The signs read “Thank You, President Bush” and “Please Help Georgia”.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili shake hands in Tbilisi, on Friday, Aug. 15, 2008.
President Bush certainly does not have a TGIF or Vacationtime look on his face! He has the weight of the world on his shoulders.
You can be sure he’ll be working in Crawford
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, center, visits journalist Tamara Urushadze at a hospital in Tbilisi, Georgia, after talks with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. [Urushadze is the journalist that was shot by a Russian sniper while reporting on live TV]
President Bush, carrying his dog Barney, waves as he arrives at TSTC airfield in Waco, Texas, Friday Aug. 15, 2008, to begin his summer vacation at his ranch near Crawford Texas.
President Bush, carrying his dog Barney, salutes as he arrives at TSTC airfield in Waco, Texas, Friday Aug. 15, 2008, to begin his summer vacation at his ranch near Crawford Texas.
Boarding Marine One.
A military helicopter escorts President Bush aboard Marine One, right, as he departs TSTC Airport in Waco, Texas, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008, on the way to his ranch in nearby Crawford.
MAN we haven’t seen Barney or Miss Beazlley for long long time rack ittt
I know what Barney thinking
Only few months to go my daddy be out of office I don’t need look at Helen Thomas face anymore LOL!
Howdy :)
jonny: Thank you for the photos and for documenting the President’s historic words concerning the Russia-Georgia conflict! . . . BTW: I’m sooooooooooooooo sick of the insulting, ignorant BDS rantings of the keyboard commandos here at FR. They deserve an Obama presidency!
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Our “unpopular” (yeh right!) president strikes again:
THE BILLION DOLLAR MAN
. . . He’s raked in close to a billion dollars, the political fundraiser in chief, during his White House tenure.
In all, Bush has personally raised more than $968 million for the Republican Party, GOP candidates and his own re-election campaign and inauguration during his two terms in office. And he’s not finished.
He’s now lost a big part of the national spotlight to presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama, but he remains a formidable force on the fundraising circuit, mostly at private affairs closed to the media. His total so far this year is roughly $70 million.
You can read the entire article here:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080815/D92IJJIG0.html
Thanks jonny.: excellent work as usual
tough times. guess it was too much to expect POTUS could have a gentle last couple months..
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