At least one highly experienced foreign analyst thinks Russia is acting like a schoolyard bully, but does it go even further & deeper than that? Russia’s foreign minister Serghej Lavrov spewed out an ill-conceived ultimatum Wednesday demanding that the US chooses between Georgia, or Russia, after President Bush warned the Kremlin that “the United States stands with the democratically elected government of Georgia.”
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice countered with, “This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten a neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it.Things have changed.”
Is it me, or do the Russians sound eerily akin to certain islamic terror groups whenever they open their mouths these days? And if they do resemble these groups, why are we negotiating with them?
“This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten a neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it,” Rice said. “Things have changed.”
The analyst in the video below agrees with my early assessments that this was nothing more than a Russian land/power grab.
Oh, on a “side note”.. The U.N. is still figuring out how they can send a bit more than a “stern” letter, since Russia would have to vote for it’s own condemnation as a “member in good standing”..
In Iran, you can do these things & be convicted without being stoned: murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, drug trafficking, prostitution, treason and espionage.
But if you do this: “adultery” You will almost certainly be convicted & stoned to death, especially if you’re a woman (if the numbers/percentages tell a story.) This week 8 women & 1 man are scheduled to be executed at the direction of Iranian judges & officials.
Does anyone else think the extremist human rights wackos that are bothering our soldiers about interrogation methods, should maybe spend more of their time having these discussions with Iran instead?
Seems to me that a being executed for a roll in the hay (no matter how distasteful the circumstances) is a bit more extreme than being smacked around at Guantanamo for being a suspected terrorist/enemy combatant.
If things were right, groups like Amnesty International would be spending their time working on the most urgent & horrific travesties of justice, instead of sticking their nose into the Military’s decisions on how to handle so called “freedom fighters” who belong to no organized army, & therefore have no rights under the Geneva convention anyway.
Save the Iranians Amnesty International! Prioritize! Human Rights before Political agendas! Isn’t living up to your name of any importance to you anymore?
The victims of 9/11 had no trial, no judge, no lawyers. Yet they were instantly executed by incineration, falling from the trade towers (or being forced to jump), or being blown to little pieces by some of the very terrorists who await military trial at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Despite those hard facts, Our liberal friends on the supreme court have just given foreign terrorists rights that I can guarantee that you would not have in THEIR native countries. If you were suspected of terror in some of these middle eastern countries you would not even make it to jail before your head was rolling around without you in some dark alley or slaughter house. They have also given them rights that they do not deserve by any stretch of the imagination. They are NOT US citizens, & do not have rights under our constitution, no matter what these moronic so-called “justices” have done.
Now, our supreme court as a whole has betrayed the victims of 9/11, their families, our nation, & completely failed the United States citizens who entrusted them with protecting US & OUR RIGHTS, instead of giving those rights over to foreign enemy combatants.
In a despicable act of omission most major media outlets have whitewashed the story leaving out justice Anthony Scalia’s ominous prediction & statement: Scalia: “The Nation will live to regret what the Court has done today. I dissent.”
What highest court has done, is it has forgotten the lessons of 9/11. Sadly, what it will probably take is for the idiots who we’ve allowed into our court system & government to see thousands more of our citizens murdered in another large scale terror attack. Even then, they may be too far gone to learn any object lesson at this point.
Scalia also said the following in his dissenting opinion:
“The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.”
Your nation’s sovereignty is being hauled off in tiny bits like ants stealing from a picnic, & most of America is oblivious to it happening. This is a very sad day for what was once a great & sovereign country, but is now being eroded to mediocrity by Liberals with no courage. The ACLU have become like legalized domestic terrorists, & are destroying this country from within, & the general population is letting them do it by continuing to vote for liberals like them. Someday fairly soon, they will all see how deceived they’ve been, but it will be too late. The only way out then, will be another civil war, as this nation’s legal system is now being stolen out from under its own citizens by insane & corrupt liberals who’s educational qualifications far, FAR outweigh their moral integrity. Problem is, most Americans have become too passive & spoiled, & would not appear to have the stomach to fight against a rogue Government. We as a nation have let the enemies of mankind infiltrate several of our most critical systems of government, & now we will all have to pay for it dearly. We are beginning to see the fruits of Liberal Labor against their own country in the gas prices we are paying now. If you think this is bad, Just wait until liberals sell us out to the whims of muslim nations who control most of the oil. Remember, it is liberals who are keeping us from drilling for our own on our own soil.
We are certainly a nation that has regressed in the name of “progress” & become lost. May God help us, as only he can.
Oh, & if you wonder how this could be happening? Here’s a list of the top Google searches of late. You can see what most of our nation is concerning themselves with first:
1. us open
2. hope dworaczyk
3. erin callan
4. chapman kansas
5. u.s. open
6. manhattan ks tornado
7. chapman ks
8. kansas state university
9. blencoe iowa
10. manhattan kansas newspaper
11. usga
12. hulk hogan s wife
13. milton bradley
14. filemon trevino
15. salina journal
16. scotus blog
17. fight the smears
18. usopen.com
19. topeka capital journal
20. loving day
21. us supreme court
22. stephanie izard
23. us open tv coverage
24. chapman tornado
25. blencoe ia
Gotta love those lax voting rules in N.H., where as I understand it just about anyone who’s bussed in can vote.. Let’s hope someone catches on. I’m a little surprised she took it, but then again it was not a very sound victory for Hillary.
By the way, any student can vote in the Primaries, even if they don’t reside in N.H.
Ok I could be wrong about this, & I’m man enough to admit when I’m wrong, however I relied on polls like most pundits, & they were ridiculously wrong..
The problem is of course, if the entrance polls were wrong, then how do we know the exit polling wasn’t just as bad? How can we rely on them?
Hillary came out on top, & we’re all surprised, but it was also a pretty ugly win. Only 2-3 percentage points over Obama, whereas in Iowa he beat her handily (by 8-9 points) & he still leads her in the more important Delegate Count by one.
It appears that female voters helped Hillary in N.H., & that may just mean that her little crying session, & the phony “Iron My Shirt” stunt by the shock jocks actually worked. I’d be curious to know who was involved, & if anyone put them up to it. In any case, although her campaign lives to fight into the next battle fronts, some those fronts are in the south, & it won’t be so easy for her to pull out the hanky & cry crocodile tears for the women down here.
I just saw Mike Huckabee say on camera that quote, “I’d rather have the people on my side, than the pundits.” He said he “proved the pundits wrong, & the people right.
Well I have some news for the apparently completely unaware Mike Huckabee, we bloggers are both pundits AND United States citizens, & despite the fact that most of us are politically educated enough to see through the phonyness of your late conversion to reality on oh say… Immigration issues? WE ARE IN FACT SOME OF THE PEOPLE YOU’VE REFERRED TO.
Let us not forget Mr. Huckabee, that we pundits who you say you have “proven wrong”, will still be around should you get elected to the Presidency, to point out whether or not you were “right”. Because you see, nothing you say you’re right about means anything until you actually follow through with all your “words are quite cheap” campiagn promises.
So Mike Huckabee, before you trash all over “pundits” as not being included in the “people” category, you might want to remember that we will be here after the election, & will still be exposing government officials for both their good works & the bad alike.
When you want to lead the nation as President, You are accountable to Us, not Us to You.
We are the pundits, AND we are the people. Plug in a laptop Mr. Huckabee, & look around the blogosphere. There are more than a few pundits Sir.. ~ Dan Lee
James Carville and Paul Begala. They are part of Bill Clinton’s old guard, as former day to day political advisers. Word on the street is that Hillary Clinton will bring them on as a last ditch attempt to save her campaign. Hillary who has sold herself throughout this Presidential race as the Candidate of Change, apparently meant “change” as in like “changing your underwear” back into pair you’ve worn before, except you’ve run them through the washer & dryer to clean them up a wee bit. Or perhaps she meant “change my mind” about the same issue depending on public reaction for the day. (polling) Sounds like a follower to me, & not what a leader does.
It also seems like taking the country backwards to me. Same old sticks for the same old tricks.
Check out this video where Hillary uses the word “change” 10 times within one minute and 6 seconds. Talk about a scripted moment. It’s also fun to see the ever pompous look on Edwards’ face in reponse.
In the following two videos, Watch Hillary completely contradict herself on striking Bin Laden in Pakistan, in order to attack Barack Obama’s comments, when on another occasion she agreed with him.
The major flip flop comes here. (Remember, she raised her hand saying she’d bomb Bin Laden along with everone else in the first video clip. As always, she tries to qualify every answer to give herself an out later.)
We are the People for whom the constitution was written. It’s “We the People”, not “We the stupid sheep.” Just thought I’d point that out for Hillary’s campaign.. ahem.. “advisers”..
Perhaps Hillary’s later response was a result of bloggers making comments like mine here, on the volatility of Pakistan & it’s nukes. It’s pretty sad if bloggers need to teach a Presidential candidate how to correctly address major foreign policy affairs. At the same time it’s nice knowing that we run the country to a certain extent.. (Hat tip to Helen Thomas)
It’s time to hang it up Hillster.. Your candidacy is truly an embarrassment to our country. Pull the chute! Your about it hit the ground! Even Bill is losing his touch with the young folks. Maybe time to get out the Saxaphone?
