I am outraged - Saakashvili just blamed the UK for WWII

Apologies for this short rant, but I need to get this off my chest. This whole Georgian affair is making me feel sick, it smacks of some Rovian tragedy, and to top it off my country has just been unfairly insulted, by one of the leading characters.

First the stench of Rove.

Every time Saakashvili opens his mouth it sounds like a party political broadcast on behalf of the repugs, God Knows how many times he's openly mentioned McCain's personal support. Is this some shallow effort to make up for Obama's success in Europe?

What gives it away for me is that we're now getting the Rovian 'On Message' stuff: Earlier today Condi Rice claimed that there was no place in the 21st Century for countries invading other countries just to remove governments they don't like, yeah right! Then a few moments ago we hear McBombit making the very same statement there is no place in the 21st Century for countries invading blah blah blah.

God the repugs are good at getting their message over when Rove's running things.

Of course neither Rice or McBombit added the caveat that the US were exempt from this kind of behavior.

It gets worse, asked whether he thought Saakashvili’s comments sounded like an endorsement of him, John McCain said (I’m paraphrasing) that we (the American electorate) needed to remember this (his) great reaction to these events and that experience should be a key consideration when we pick our next president.

The revolting McBombit is using a foreign country's military action against another foriegn country to try and score political points, it smacks of a set up to me.

Still never fear, this is the deluded McBombit we're dealing with, in the very next question he was asked whether he was happy with the way the Bush admin is dealing with it all, and whether he would use military action to protect the Georgian govt. himself. He answered the second question first by quite categorically saying NO he would not be sending in troops, but went onto say that he was happy with the way Bush is handling things and claimed that they were sending a 'clear' message to the Russians.

But, have I missed something here? didn't he just say he was NOT going to send any troops in? and if not then exactly what 'clear' message is he sending to Russia? that we'll stop selling stuff to them? that we're prepared to lose all the money we make from that country? that we'll cut our nose off to spite our face? yeah nice one!

Finally to cap my disgust with the whole affair and my deep suspicion about McSaakashvili, in an interview with CNN, Mikheil Saakashvili had the audacity to blame my country for the atrocities of WWII. BTW I'm British.

After claiming the US were not doing enough, and blaming them for not sending in soldiers to die defending his government's actions, he drew a world war two comparison. Saakashvili told us that the US refusing to send troops was like the British and Neville Chamberlain ‘giving up Czechoslovakia’ to the nazis, and went on to warn us that we all saw what happened after that.

I'm sorry but this pissed me off, both my grandfathers died along side four of their brothers defending Europe, our country fought alone for 3 long years, I lost great aunts courtesy of the Luftwaffe bombing campaigns of London, and to hear some gobshite tinpot president blame my country for WWII and the holocaust tops the lot for me.

What's been happening while I've been away?

Before I get into all that is not well in our world, I just had to leave you with a totally irrelevant but enjoyable pictorial reminder of that glorious day when McCain was forced to ponder that Viagra question...

Alright now can someone tell me how the fuck the repugs gained the upper ground on these three issues;

1. The Iraq war - There’s no discussion anymore about whether or not we should be in Iraq, it’s all about the fucking surge, which actually wasn’t a surge at all, it was just an increase in troop levels. I thought the prupose of the ‘surge‘ was so that the troops could come home, but there’s been no troop reduction, there are more troops in Iraq today than there were pre-surge, how’s that a success? The answer is it’s not, the only success here has been for the republican’s pr machine, they’ve done a corking job.
It’s true that Obama voted against the surge and he was right to, the reduction in violence had very little to do with any US military action on the ground, but back room diplomacy and double dealings. This is NOT an area where democrats should be losing ground, but McCain is happy to bring this up all day long. Why? Because it’s a ‘winning’ issue for him, who would’ve thought that any part of the Iraq war would be a ‘winning’ issue for the republicans that illegally drew us into that war. A total failure on behalf of the Democrat PR machine, if it can be called a machine at all.

2. Fuel costs - what the fuck? Republicans sit in congress without the lights on, refusing to go home until congress approves even greater profits for their big oil paymasters, and somehow manage to make those nasty profit grabbing oil companies look like the good guys.

Another example of the Democratic Party PR lawnmower failing. In fact that’s an understatement, they’ve failed so atrociously that McBombit feels confident enough to run ads blaming Obama and the Democratic Party leadership for the high gas prices. And the reason he feels confident enough to run the ads? -- 70% of the American public support off shore drilling.

Depressing as those stats are there’s one thing that can be drawn from them -- the American electorate have not got a fucking clue, it proves they can be ‘sold’ anything. A couple of them even bought the ‘wrong’ London bridge from us once!

3. Georgia - tell me WTF is up with that? - Saakashvilli uses all his airtime to make GOP party political broadcasts, maybe he’s positioning himself to run as McBombit’s VP! Let’s face it, he couldn’t be any worse than Romney, at least he’d offer a more reserved type of ‘bomb it and see’ conservatism.

I’m not even gonna touch on the ‘countries just don’t invade other countries in the 21st Century’, actually repeated by Bush, Rice and McBombit.

No it’s the other brand of hypocrisy I want to address: 200,000 people turn up to hear Obama make some tedious speech in Berlin, and he’s accused of being; presumptive, arrogant, too presidential etc. But, some tin-pot leader of a country most Americans never knew existed, mercilessly bombs citizens of a separatist leaning enclave in his country, which consequently draws the inevitable response from the Russians, and all of a sudden McCain’s talking as if they’ve invaded Bermuda, and starts posturing like it’s the cold war all over again, even tells us he’s sending an ‘envoy’.

So apparently, you can’t make a boring speech in front of 200,000 Europeans, but it’s a OK to threaten war with Russia! Tell me who’s being presumptive here?

Honestly it feels like a bad joke, maybe Ted Turner’s gonna make an announcement, tell us the whole thing was just a really badly conceived prank of his. Anything, please, but this can‘t really be happening, can it?

Russia Attack!!!

Palpably Magoo is not a happy camper at the moment, even the Bush administration seems to have turned their back on him, refusing him even the tiniest of favors to bomb, bomb, Iran. Instead, they seem hell bent on adopting Obama's loony liberal, soft on terror ideas, and opening up a bit of dialogue with the bad guys.

But, Magoo knows wars aren’t won by talking, he knows how to WIN wars properly, you know, by using special secret strategies and breaking things and hurting people.

Here’s a man who knows how to win wars, he’s a self-proclaimed war winner, it’s his strength and he's determined to play to it. But, if no one’s at war, how can he possibly win one? Magoo needs a war and it seems he’s decided, that if no one's prepared to start one for him, he's gonna start one himself.

I noticed over the past week he repeated Reagan’s wobbly ‘tear down this wall Mr Gorbypants’ statement a couple of times. Perhaps he thought people would confuse which dithery old man had said it, and think it was him. Remember he’s rock solid in that 85-135 white male demographic!

This wasn’t a lone cold war reference, Johnny seems to have been blasting them off pretty regularly of late, and I began to wonder why? Then over the weekend it became all too clear.

Magoo wants his war, and as one of the most popular was Reagan’s war on the Soviets, he’s all about the sequel -- what better enemy than one that worked so well for Ron Reagan? -- The Soviet Uni...but, wait a minute, hold on a sec --- the soviets aren't around anymore….Ron won, John.

Still, unperturbed by the fact the USSR got broken up into little bite size chunks of democracy and Reagan put paid to all those nasty commies, and their evil wealth sharing, dog help dog ideologies, years ago, Magoo has decided to lock his crosshairs onto Russia….and what a fucking tool he is!

It all came flooding out in an interview he had with Goergipopalotapiss. Magoo was all about it, proving his foreign policy credentials and unveiled his latest masterly considered policy scheme, which is to throw Russia out of the G8!!!? This doesn’t only offend Russia, though I apologise on his behalf to any Russians that are reading this or are familiar with the tool’s statement, but he’s also offended the other 6 members of the G8 by arrogantly assuming that it’s his choice to do so. It’s the G8 for a reason…duh! Oh yeah, and the reason why? apparently, he doesn’t like them!?!?

I didn’t say a word about PTSD or Russian interrogators!

Johnny’s got his fingers crossed of course hoping that his insults will push them to the point where they'll want to attack us, then he can show us how he wins wars. Bare in mind if you will, that Russia, our ally, have a few more nukes than your average tin-pot regime, and they wouldn't be the pushover Iraq has bee....oh yeah, we haven't pushed them over yet. Still, not to worry, you know what they say! if you're perceived to have lost one pointless war, the best remedy is to start fighting another, right?

At one point in his interview, Magoo had an unfortunate stumble over the name of the president of Russia, well it wasn’t actually a stumble at all, he just outright got it wrong, referring to Putin as President. Small potatoes I’m sure for such an experienced foreign policy operator, people don‘t give a shit about being called by their real names, right? He went on and offered a weak defense, saying that Putin may as well be president because he ran the country anyway, nice! He went on to infer that Medvedev was merely a puppet, even better!

Yup that Medvedev, the one that President Magoo would have to attend summits with. Then again, if his plan to unilaterally declare war on Russia works he won’t have to attend any summits.

Not only does Russia have the capacity to nullify us a few times over, and I’m quite sure that if they were pushed again, they might actually think about it -- once bitten, twice shy -- and Russia is the biggest of the ex-Soviet Union demo-chunks. They also happen to be an ally of ours in our war on terror, you know, the one that’s still supposed to be going on, John…remember? And one of the reasons they’re an ally in that war, because they’re Christian, you know church people like you. Don’t go getting tricked by those long intimidating beards, they’re all the rage with those snappy dressing orthodox types.

Also, they’re capitalists, yup! they’re capitalist too. In fact a whole heap of US business is tied up over there, and pretty much dependent on their economy, and probably at this very moment desperately trying to mend fences, I’m sure by claiming you’re some irrelevant nut that doesn’t have a hope in Nov.

So in summary, they’re a Christian capitalist democracy like us, isn't that supposed to be the point of all our wars? you know, to spread democracy, the good word of our Lord and the ideology of Enron?

As far as excuses go, I wouldn’t think of trying to push some fabricated collusion with Al Qaeda, you’ll find that a bit of a hard sell. But, you’ll have no trouble with WMD, just as long as they don’t use them all on us first!

Johnny, you’re a tool, keep your foreign policy experience to yourself mate!