McCain: "Today, We Are All Georgians"
Ariz. Senator Phones Georgia's President; Obama Calls For "Action, Not Just Words" From Russia
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Russia Halts Georgia Assault
Russia's president has ordered a halt to military action in Georgia but troops remain in disputed provinces. Stuart Ramsay of Sky News reports.
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Russia's Image Damaged
Russian forces have ended military operations in Georgia, but President Bush and others in the international community say that Russia's standing has already been damaged. Mark Phillips reports.
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks during a town hall meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008, at the York Expo Center in York, Pa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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McCain told more than 2,000 voters in York that he spoke Tuesday morning with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to make sure he knows "that the thoughts, prayers and support of the American people are with that great little nation as it struggles today" for independence.
"I told him that I know I speak for every American when I said to him, today, we are all Georgians," McCain said to loud applause. He said Saakashvili asked him to express his thanks to Americans.
McCain said Moscow is using "violence against Georgia to send a signal" to "any country that chooses to associate with the West." Russian leaders, he said, must realize they risk "the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world."
Both McCain and his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, have called for a multi-pronged diplomatic approach to pressure Russia to withdraw from Georgia, a former republic of the Soviet Union. Georgia has been trying to keep the pro-Moscow province of South Ossetia from breaking away.
Obama, who is vacationing in Hawaii, said in a statement Tuesday: "Now is the time for action not just words. It is past time for the Russian government to immediately sign and implement a cease-fire. Russia must halt its violation of Georgian airspace and withdraw its ground forces from Georgia, with international monitors to verify that these obligations are met."
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See all 233 CommentsWhy dont he just shut up. I dont back anything he says how dare him speak for me.
Posted by johnpatrick9 at 02:24 PM : Aug 12, 2008"
Well said - if ole McDepends wants to defend GA let him get his *** into a fighter plane and go crash it into Tbilisi - his loss will not be one I''ll be mourning
McSame ignores the genocidal acts of Georgians against their own Ossetian countrymen, just to take a pro Bush stance regarding the Tblisi oil pipeline.
Such a person wants us to believe he would be a good president. No thanks John, we had enough ignorance with Bush, we cannot take another 4 years of it.
Sadly, most Americans couldn''t find Georgia (country) on a map nor figure out what the hell they are fighting about.
That is unless of course you were amoung thoses enthnicly cleansed in South Ossetia last week by Georgia''s military.
Does this mean Johnny McSame will learn to correctly pronounce President Mikhail Saakashvili name?
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I AM OUTRAGED! HOW PRESUMPTUOUS! WHO CORONATED HIM PRESIDENT? THIS IS NO TIME TO BE PLAYACTING!
oops, sorry, I thought is was Obama who said that.
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McCain really should stop pulling famous quotes off Wickipedia and plagerizing them. It is embarrassing.
Saakashvili''s like Stalin, but with better public relations people and lobbyists (like McCain''s chief foreign policy adviser).
We''re being fed such a pile of horsesh*t from our media on this issue.
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McCancer speaks for every American....please!!
Georgia is like the mouse that fvcked with the wrong big cat. Georgia themselves entered separtist areas.
Granted, Russia''s response was overboard, but that''s the way they''ve always were. Back in the Cold War days, if 2 KGB agents got wacked. They''d find out who did it and wack FOUR of their agents.
Just like we''re not all Sudanese, Rawandans, Albanians, Iraqis, Irish.
So stop boxing us in with this type of rhetoric.
Focus on this economy which is what you know least about, and respect Russians right to protect itself just like you thought it was necessary to go into Iraq and practice "regime change".
Ref: CIA Factbook
The Georgians should have NEVER gone into South Ossetia and pi$$ off the Russians.
I''d prefer that we not restart the cold war...
US intervention into this conflict would kickoff a new arms race and potentially WWIII. I don''t know who McCain was speaking about when he said "we", but it certainly wasn''t us... probably the neoconservatives?
Georgian president quotes John McCains support for the country of Georgia and calls for Russia to halt. Georgian president quoted John McCain not Barry Obama. The international community in a crisis does not recognize Obama. They do respect and support John McCain.
McCain 08
McCain 08
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Posted by kmccliment at 03:49 PM : Aug 12, 2008--
I can give da** about Georgia''s president said or the so-called international community. We need Obama to collect some of this lost "tax cuts for the rich".
Americans are in no mood for another "Repulican Suicide Bombing" mission.
It doesn''t hurt, of course, that McCain''s lead foreign policy adviser has been a longtime paid lobbyist for Georgia. McCain scratches Saakashvili''s back and Saakashvili returns the favor.
McCain 08
Posted by kmccliment at 03:49 PM : Aug 12, 2008
LOL ARE YOU on another PLANET?? LOL Were YOU in some sort of CAVE when Obama visited Europe?? LOL You Fascist are far to hung up on your party and have lost any idea of what the World is REALLY all about. We have NO friends anymore thanks to Bush, McSame and the Republican Party. THAT isn''t going to change just because you replace ONE War Monger with another! We are a Paper Tiger right now because of the FASCIST and their desire for War, we haven''t enough troops to protect THIS nation let alone help anyone else!! SIEG HEIL McBush
You done f***ed around and pissed off the wrong jokers.
I mean, he is just a candidate for president, not president! And can you believe he is saying we are "citizens of the world?" Where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah, IT WAS OBAMA!
One of these days you''re going to recognize that you''d squeezed and popped off one too many at the mouth.
Barack + GOP = %u2018Obamacans%u2019
http://www.newsweek.com/id/107476
Challenge 2 - Hamas has donated to Obama
Evidence for Challenge 1:
Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr., long-time pastor of Barak Obama, published an op-ed piece signed by a Hamas leader. The item appeared in the July 22, 2007 edition of his Trinity United Church newspaper on the "Pastor''''s Page." The op-ed piece justifies attacks on Israeli civilians, and carries a supporting introduction by Mr. Wright.
Evidence for Challenge 2:
The contributions also raise numerous questions about the Obama campaign%u2019s lax online donation form, which apparently allows for the possibility of foreign contributions.
Last week, the Atlas Shrugs blog outlined a series of donations in 2007 made to Obama%u2019s campaign from two individuals, Monir Edwan and Hosam Edwan, totaling $29,521.54.
In an online form on Obama%u2019s campaign site, the Edwans listed their street as %u201CTal Esaltan,%u201D which they wrote was located in %u201CRafah, GA.%u201D
Rafah is not a city in Georgia. The Atlas blog immediately raised concerns that the money may have been donated from the Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
The Edwans%u2019 donations are listed in both FEC filings and other election filing sites, such as CampaignMoney and donordata.org.
Speaking to WND, the two brothers praised Obama and admitted giving the money online to his campaign. They said they are not U.S. citizens but are citizens of %u201CPalestine.%u201D
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I see your all attacking Mccain. Isnt Obama saying the same things. Obama is going to start a war with Russia, watch out. Obama is a war monger , what is he doing making statements to Russia, he isnt president. Obama trying to impress the Center will get us into a War. Read the article carefully.
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