McCain: "We are all Georgians." WTF?!

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McCain: "We are all Georgians." WTF?!
John Aravosis (DC) · 8/15/2008 09:10:00 AM


This is the reason John McCain doesn't deserve to be commander in chief of the US military.

As you probably know, there's a growing crisis between Russia and the former Soviet state of Georgia. I won't get into the details, but it basically involves the Russian military moving into Georgia to help some separatists. Anyway, John McCain, in an effort to bolster his foreign policy/national security bona fides with the voters, has been talking tough about Georgia, threatening Russia, and just the other day, referring to his phone conversation with the Georgian leader, said "I know I speak for every American when I say to him, 'Today we are all Georgians.'"

No we are not.

This is why Americans, in the end, won't vote for John McCain. Making an equivalence between former Soviet Georgia and Soviet-occupied Berlin is, well, historically naive and clinically insane. It was worth risking war with the Soviet Union to defend Europe, it is not worth American going to war with Russia to defend Georgia, regardless of how good their yoghurt. The fact that John McCain thinks Georgia - Georgia! - is as vital to US national interests as Soviet-occupied Berlin says a lot about McCain's approach to foreign policy, none of it good. McCain is, at his core, a warmonger. 100 years in Iraq sound familiar? Bomb Iran? And now, "I know I speak for every American when I say to him, 'Today we are all Georgians.'"

Speak for yourself.

[annabanana]

1. When I heard this, all I could think of was

Who the Hell does he think he is?

[FreakinDJ]

2. We are Not Ever Going to War with Russia

At best a "New Era Cold War" for defense contractors to siphon off 5 - 10% of the GNP

Ballistic deterrents work plain and simple

[JohnnyBoots]

5. I wonder if Russia is in on it and all this is for show to set up the

"New Era cold War".....I wouldn't put it past all those involved.

[FreakinDJ]

6. No - Russia is in it to make USA look impotent to the World

Sufficiently defrocking the USA of the title "Super Power" give Russia much more clout in negotiating trade and policy around the World.

"Oh look - Capitalism does not work after all"

[Virginia Dare]

9. Except now you've got China to contend with as well..

can we fight two cold wars on two different fronts? The other prospect is that Russia and China have or will very soon form an alliance against the West. Unclear which way India will go. Nope, this is certainly not 1968.

[texpatriot2004]

3. McSame is delusional, just like * nm

[C_U_L8R]

4. He was talking about Bush

Today we are all George Bush.

[Norrin Radd]

7. A frightening number of people on DU are automatically choosing sides

when both are in the wrong, innocents are suffering on both sides, and it is unclear exactly who made the first move.

[unblock]

8. i knew jack kennedy. jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you're no jack kennedy!

why is it that all these republicans, WHO HATE JACK KENNEDY, always try to pretend to be like him?

oh, right. because they envy his "brand", and image is all that matters to republicans.

[Virginia Dare]

10. Definitely no Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was human...n/t

[Supersedeas]

11. Remember how the Media went ape-shit about Obama saying we are all citizens of the world

and yet another free-pass to McChucklechange-we-can-see-through

[Overseas]

12. JSM III having a Cold War Flashback ! And after Wikipedia-Gate

you'd think he'd find himself a more original line, rather than paraphrasing Le Monde.

John Sidney McCain III's bombastic declarations against Russia just sound like an idiotic flashback! Been there done that. Wasted trillions on that already.

Earth to JSM III-- we are in the 21st Century now. Your hug-buddy Dubya has bankrupted this country with his pro-invasion permanent war policies. We don't want to continue walking down that plank.


Edited for grammar.

[catgirl]

13. World reaction to 9/11- Today we are all americans

He is such a rip off artist. And he DOES NOT speak for me, ever.

[barack the house]

14. If they elect McCain you could change it to we are all suckers now. Fool me once...

That'd make a great ad actually.

[depakid]

15. The world's most famous Georgian: