Friends,
What a great idea! Send our biggest chicken-hawk to ruffle Russian feathers. What a DICK! This scum sucker would not recognise diplomacy if you shot him in the face with it. Why irritate and complicate at this important time in US/Russian relations?
Peace and Love,
Rev O
"Vice President Cheney will travel next week to war-ravaged Georgia as part of a swing through several former Soviet republics, making him the highest-level U.S. emissary to visit the country since hostilities between Russia and Georgia broke out this month, officials said yesterday."
"The trip will put the Bush administration's most prominent hawk in a war zone still occupied by lingering Russian troops, and is likely to irritate leaders in Moscow, who have condemned the United States for siding with Georgia in the conflict."
"It will also underscore the extent of disagreement within the Bush administration over how forcefully to confront Moscow. Cheney and his aides unsuccessfully argued in favor of increasing military aid to the fledgling Georgian democracy, according to officials familiar with the debate."
"Cheney's visit is likely to be watched closely in part because he is widely seen as a representative of the Bush administration's most hawkish tendencies. During a trip to Lithuania in May 2006, Cheney accused Russia of "unfairly and improperly" restricting the rights of its people, and of using oil and gas as "tools of intimidation or blackmail" against its neighbors. The comments enraged Russian officials and complicated ongoing negotiations over Iran's nuclear program."
"Russia's reputation has suffered since it took these disproportionate military steps in Georgia," Fratto said, adding that the United States is "reviewing our entire relationship with Russia."
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