US Moves To Replenish Georgia's Military

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

(09-09) 14:28 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --

Turning a deaf ear to Russia's complaints, the Bush administration is moving to rebuild Georgia's military while asserting it will not let Russia divide Europe again.

"Georgia, like any sovereign country, should have the ability to defend itself and to deter renewed aggression," Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

The Pentagon will send an assessment team to Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, later in the week to help figure out Georgia's "legitimate needs" as a way of showing U.S. support for the country's security, Edelman said.

But at the United Nations, Russia moved to block the U.S. effort. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin circulated a draft resolution that would impose a U.N. arms embargo on Georgia, preventing the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer of arms to the former Soviet republic.

---
Administration officials told the committee that any separate military buildup would be undertaken carefully and have in mind Georgia's support for coalition efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan and its counterterror campaign against Chechen extremists.

Russia adamantly opposes U.S. military aid to Georgia. The proposed Russian resolution is certain to encounter U.S. opposition.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/09/09/national/w142833D54.DTL

[Ian David]

1. I don't think any of us will be alive by January 20, 2009. n/t

[Tempest]

2. If I were Russia

I'd find out what Bush is planning to send to Georgia and match it in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

It's not like Russia has anything to lose.

[redqueen]

6. If they really wanted to play tit for tat, they'd send it to Cuba!

[Purveyor]

9. I expect Russia to start sending aid to Cuba for hurricane recovery. Perhaps they will use

'warships', just as the US used to deliver aid to Georgia...

:)

[Tempest]

20. To really get the Bushies brains to explode

I'd send it to Venezuela.

[TheLastMohican]

18. Stupid move by Bushco

Russia will roll in once again and confiscate all the equipment that US gave to Georgia.

This is what happened in August during 5-day war.

Georgians are not very good soldiers no matter how well-equipped they are.

[pampango]

19. Of course, Russia reinvading Georgia might give McCain the boost

that he needs. And the defense industry will get the opportunity to make even more money.

I have no idea how competent Georgian soldiers are, but it really doesn't matter. They are never going to be able to stand up to Russia militarily.

[superconnected]

3. We gave them the money to buy our defense companies goods.

The war has been turned into a rape of the US treasury.

Which is also what the Iraq war is all about.

[FiveGoodMen]

8. "The war has been turned into a rape of the US treasury"

My guess is: That's what the war -- and Bush's White House bid -- were always about.

I think it's a big bank robbery with dead Iraqis and a shredded Bill of Rights as collateral damage.

[redqueen]

14. Exactly. It was always about a means of looting the treasury for their cronies.

Their only failure was not getting those SS funds to their Wall Street cronies.

McFailin will definitely take up that battle, should they steal it yet again.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. They're physically incapable of learning a lesson, aren't they.

ANY lesson.

:shrug:

[provis99]

5. Bush has the stupidest foreign policy in world history

I mean really, can anyone give a less stupid example?

[ryanmuegge]

7. Ok...You can knock it off now. McCain is going to win. Please stop.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

10. What?

:wtf:

Forget a :sarcasm: somewhere?

[redqueen]

21. Just a guess...

but I think they might be referring to the idea that Georgia's idiotic attack was intended to pump up McInsane's numbers.

[Zhade]

11. I'm hearing alarm bells. Should I be?

This sounds insane.

[and-justice-for-all]

12. "US Moves To Replenish Georgia's Military"

Why and who the fuck is paying for that?

[tom_paine]

13. Just payback for helping McBush with the Summer Propaganda Offensive.

The minute those tanks rolled into Ossetia, McBush was movin' on up.

Now it's neck and neck. Mission Accomplished.

Georgia should get a ton of money for assisting McBush and the Bushies this way. Randy Scheunemann should get a nice addition to his already large Cayman Islands account for handling the courier duties and perhaps negotiations.

because as much loot as Georgia is going to get that is in plain sight, that's liekly nohing compared to the slush monies and whatever other parts of America the Bushies gave him in exchange for making his move, like the Israelis, in August of an "election year".

Mission Accomplished. Restarting the Cold War? Six percentage points to McBush in ACTUAL VOTES, which means more like 9% or 12% in the "counted votes".

[Ghost Dog]

15. Bush will not divide Europe?

Haahaaahaa. :rofl:

Excuse me. Russia is a European country. Does Bush know where that is on a map?

--

edit to add: The Russian Federation is something else, of course.

Why, some of it is even right next door to Alaska!11!

[Billy Burnett]

16. Think: Clear Skies. The cabal means quite the opposite of what they say. eom

[Igel]

22. It's like Turkey.

Russia proper straddles the boundary, even ignoring the autonomous regions. But that's geography.

There's also the political and cultural aspect. And, again, Russia straddles the boundary. See the Slavophile/Westernizer controversy from the 19th C., which continues to the present, with some alterations.

[daleo]

17. Who's paying?

Freddie Mac? Fannie Mae?