‘Invasion of Georgia’—a ‘3 a.m. moment’

Politico ^ | 8/9/08 | Ben Smith

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump.

[J40000]

Hey, where are all the screaming libs to protest against Russia for invading without UN approval??

[JasonC]

None of this useless diplomacy calls and PR spin is going to make the slightest difference, nor is up to the height of the times.

This is testing behavior to see if they can swallow Ukraine after the election.

The proper response would be to announce that 50 operational nuclear weapons have been stationed in the Ukraine and the Ukrainian military provided with single-key launch codes to use them.

That would concentrate minds in the Kremlin. This mere talk, on the other hand, screams "no worries, full speed ahead to world war".

[dfwgator]

Bingo. This was like Hitler using the Sudetenland to test the will of his enemies. This is ultimately about Ukraine and other states joining NATO, Russia is using this to gauge the reaction.

[Raycpa]

What the diplomatic side of the WH says and the private side says are not necessarily the same.

[magellan]

"This was like Hitler using the Sudetenland ... "

What a near-perfect parallel. This is frighteningly similar.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

this is Russia attacking one of our allies!!!Soviet Union trying to get the map back to when they had Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Latvia etc.

What the F.. is going on here?? Obama couldn’t handle a 3 am moment if he had diahrrhea at 3 am!!

[ETL]

Frank Marshall Davis

Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008

Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.

The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:

Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/

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"'The Black Book of Communism,' a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=

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From Accuracy In Media | AIM.ORG

Obama’s Communist Mentor
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | February 18, 2008

excerpt...

"through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his 'poetry' and getting advice on his career path. But Obama, in his book, Dreams From My Father, refers to him repeatedly as just 'Frank.'

The reason is apparent: Davis was a known communist who belonged to a party subservient to the Soviet Union. In fact, the 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii identified him as a CPUSA member. What's more, anti-communist congressional committees, including the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), accused Davis of involvement in several communist-front organizations."

Frank Chapman, a CPUSA supporter, has written a letter to the party newspaper hailing the Illinois senator's victory in the Iowa caucuses:

"Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary 'mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through."
People's Weekly World (PWW), official newspaper of the Communist Party, USA

Source article: Obama’s Communist Mentor
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Bingo is right!

If we blink on this aggression, the Germans deserve what they get...where is the EU to protect countries from soviet aggression?

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

The Obama campaign must be freakin. They know he isnt americas first choice for POTUS in a high stakes game of chicken with the Ruskies

[Gorzaloon]

this is Russia attacking one of our allies!!!Soviet Union trying to get the map back to when they had Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Latvia etc.

It is also a kleptocracy of gangsters intent on blowing up the pipeline to assure its fuel stranglehold on Europe.

[shadowgovernment]

when you get 40% of your energy from russia - your hands are tied..russia has the EU by the short ones on oil and gas
and will use that weapon to keep them in line..Nato’s tiger has had it's teeth and claws pulled..what was left of them
anyway.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Hey, where are all the screaming libs to protest against Russia for invading without UN approval??

They approve. They've been after the Russians to do something about Georgia ever since the Confederate Flag contraversy

Georgia is a dagger aimed at the heart of Russia. They're only protecting the Sudeten Russians.

[Steely Tom]

The Obama campaign must be freakin. They know he isnt americas first choice for POTUS in a high stakes game of chicken with the Ruskies

He's on vacation. Why should anyone be freakin' about anything? They be chillin' an' eatin' de pineapple.

[mick]

It's 3:00 am and the President gets a call........old Mack's first thought is to get pissed off, thinks clearly about who is to blame, and then barks orders.........boyBO’s first thought is to wonder why the Russians are doing this to him, wets his pants, and then calls his advisors to find out what to say.

The Driveby’s can't hide this one.....I think the soccer moms and metrosexuals are going to peek out from their self centered world of life coaches and diets and notice that the world is still a very dangerous place. 'bout time !

[aruanan]

Nor let us forget these words of Davis:

I was a weaver of jagged words
A warbler of garbled tunes
A singer of savage songs
I was bitter
Yes
Bitter and sorely sad
For when I wrote
I dipped my pen
In the crazy heart
Of mad America

—Frank Marshall Davis

[dila813]

Anyone who thinks that Russia wasn’t waiting for this opportunity is a fool.

How do you think they could roll 150 tanks across the border so quick? They were right there waiting for this moment.

[genghis]

now if mccain will make you secretary of efense, i might vote for him.
Good recommendation

[ETL]

Blowing up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror
by Alexander Litvinenko, Yuri Felshtinsky, Geoffrey Andrews and Co (Translator), Geoffrey Andrews and Co. (Translator)

Synopsis: Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian secret service has been hatching a plot to return to the terror that was the hallmark of the KGB. Vividly written and based on Litvinenko's 20 years of insider knowledge of Russian spy campaigns, Blowing Up Russia describes how the successor of the KGB fabricated terrorist attacks and launched a war. Writing about Litvinenko, the surviving co-author recounts how the banning of the book in Russia led to three earlier deaths.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Blowing-up-Russia/Alexander-Litvinenko/e/9781594032011

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Putin's Poison?
by Peter Brookes
November 27, 2006

The death of former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko, last week from radioactive Polonium-210 poisoning is the latest in a series of politically motivated attacks on the outspoken opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/ed112706a.cfm

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Radioactive Link To Dead Spy
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/200828513553599

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"The crisis was sparked earlier this week when Georgia sent troops into the breakaway province of South Ossetia to quell a Russian-backed separatist uprising."
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Russia-On-Verge-Of-All-Out-War-As-Troops-Clash-In-Georgias-South-Ossetia/Article/200808215074261?lpos=World%2BNews_4&lid=ARTICLE_15074261_Russia%2BOn%2BVerge%2BOf%2BAll-Out%2BWar%2BAs%2BTroops%2BClash%2BIn%2BGeo

Putin on "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century":
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html

From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html

Russia, China flex muscles in joint war games
Reuters: Aug 17, 2007
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-29030120070817?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

U.S. Navy Intercepts Russian Bombers Flying Near Ships
Monday, February 11, 2008
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330362,00.html

"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century"???

"'The Black Book of Communism,' a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=