As I slowly clap my hands, I just have to say, "BRAVO!" I think that these neo-cons are just genius at thinking the American public--fools. Are we? Like, we don't know that President Mikheil Saakashvili, of Georgia, moved to the Upper West Side of New York City in 1996, got his law degree, and worked for the conservative, corporate law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler. Now as the Georgian president since 2004, he represents a pro-Washington Consensus of free-trade and privatization ideology, ideology that protects the "United States Interests," aka--multinational corporations, aka--oil. I'm also quite sure that Bush was not thrilled that Putin nationalized the oil in Russia, which is not in line with the Washington Consensus; as they drool over the possibility of getting their hands on that pipeline running through Georgia. Enter Condoleza Rice's July 9 meeting-gone-wrong with Saakashivili, where Rice encouraged non-aggression, followed by a "chance" crossing of paths between Carl Rove and Saakashivili at the July 12 Plenary session: Elections in Russia and the USA: impact on Ukraine and Europe, where we can neither confirm no deny that Rove may or may not have encouraged Saakashvili to take a hard line with South Ossetia. Then Russia attacked AND that's all we need to get US Military on mission to deliver "aid" to Georgia, AKA--guard the pipeline. WOW...deja’vu…aren’t we guarding a pipeline in Iraq? Didn’t we just get a “deal” there where the oil companies get 70% of oil profits in Iraq? I wonder if people would be more likely to vote McCain with a new "cold war"...quite the Rovian political strategy. But, we need to drill off the coast and open more land in the US for them to rape, right? Riiiiight!...did I also mention that this conflict allows them to boost oil prices AGAIN! Oh, and most importantly, people, AGAIN, get to die so corporations can make profits.
