Please tell me I'm not the only one who finds Dubya's scolding of Russia for its military aggression in Georgia hypocritical and ineffectual. Which is not to say I disagree with it. It's just that when Dubya tells the leader (Prime Minister Putin) of another country that it has no right to invade a third and that its actions are "disproportionate," I can't get past a mental image of a pot calling a kettle black. As it were.
I very much would like to see Georgia keep its freely elected democratic government and not be re-subsumed into a revitalized Soviet Union--even if it's officially without the "Soviet," Russia is turning back into the same empire that lowered the Iron Curtain in the first place.
However, I can't see how anyone in the world can take Dubya's tsk-tsking and finger-wagging lecturing seriously, given the crap he dragged us into in Iraq. Not to mention Afghanistan (though I concede that our presence in Afghanistan is the more justifiable of the two wars).
November cannot come soon enough for me! (Assuming we get a new administration, and not McBush's third term, that is.)
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