Posted on 09/08/2008 4:28:35 AM PDT by ottbmare
We’re going to spend $1 billion to fix the Georgia between Russia and Turkey, not the one between South Carolina and Florida.
Sorry, but the thought of us spending $1 billion to repair a country whose president, though a democrat, recklessly provoked a war with a brutish Russia, which was itching to bash its neighbor, makes no sense to me. Yes, we should diplomatically squeeze Russia until it withdraws its troops; no one should be invading neighbors.
But where are our priorities? How many wars can we fight at once without finishing even one? Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Georgia. Which is the priority? Americans are struggling to meet their mortgages, and we’re sending $1 billion to a country whose president behaved irresponsibly, just to poke Vladimir Putin in the eye. Couldn’t we poke Putin with $100 million?
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Thank you.
Damn! I'm pretty sure Gordon Brown and his groveling appeasers aren't long for this world (think the shock of Red Ken, haha), but a done deal is a done deal.
If Putin picks the new CEO he WILL be corrupt. It's a sad thing to hang my hopes on, but maybe he'll steal enough money from the budget that the project won't get done or at least done badly.
I hate anti-Semites.
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