Who's going to stand up to the evil Russians?

[Postman]

A battle hardened military man or an effete negotiator?

We seen the results of the Negotiator in Georgia.

Crushed.

We need a man like John McCain. He knows how to protect America.


....It's coming folks.

[Muttocracy]

1. well, he is still stuck in the 1980s in much of his foreign policy attitude.

A man who never noticed the end of the cold war - what America needs!!!!111

[theboss]

2. Well, what can ya do?

If I was running McCain's campaign, I would do just that. It's smart.

You play the hand you are dealt.

[AllentownJake]

3. Well when your house is being forclosed on and you barely have money

for gas and the raising cost of food. The evil russians don't seem like as much of a threat as going to the grocery store and trying to feed your family or talking to the bank to renegotiate your interest rate.

[Postman]

7. You're correct. However those are the very reasons the Republicans want you to focus away from..

By having to "deal with" the more important (in their eyes) "threat"...

[Overseas]

4. And we reply -- No Neocon Flashbacks Thank You !

Russian moves have been defensive. We pushed their neighbors to join NATO, that is a threat, so they've encouraged separatist movements within those states and that escalated. But it is all about Russia's defenses. Russia's bordering states, not a huge mysterious Iron Curtain Giant Megadeath story.

We don't want any FLASHBACKS to the Cold War. We are already bankrupt from following idiotic Neocon lies to invade Iraq. We can't afford their armchair war mongering any more.

Corporate media may still be rich but we are not. We have no more cash to give the war mongers to fund a Neocon Flashback to the old days of a Giant Cold War.

But yeah, because the corporate media and their pet reporters are still rich, they may be bound to toss around the idiotic flashbacks John Sidney McCain III and his Hug-Buddy Dubya have been trying to set alight. The Big Boys may want them to do that. War profiteering works for them too.

Let's hope the rest of the world can tell the ridiculous bankrupt warmongers over here that their game is up.

I also hope that Republicans and corporate media owners will realize we need fiscally responsible Democrats in power again to clear up the extra-large Republican deficits the Bush-Cheney administration have racked up. I long for the day when they just stop covering up for the idiocy, incompetence and inconsistencies of John Sidney McCain III in spite of his years of flattering their pampered reporters.

[flashl]

5. The SAME evil Russia thats 'OUR' Defense Dept's Iraq and Afghanistan arms supplier?

The New Arms Bazaar: From Russia, With No Love

Wired
Sharon Weinberger
July 30, 2008

If there one thing that's truly disturbing about the sale of Russian weapons to Iraq and Afghanistan, it's that it demonstrates how parts of the U.S. government have been forced to find ways to evade American law. Specifically, we now have the Pentagon, which is under pressure to rapidly equip Iraq and Afghanistan, forced to turn to Russian suppliers that might be sanctioned under U.S. law.

...

Over the past week, I've written about how the U.S. Army, as an example of this effort, handed out a no-bid contract to a well-connected U.S. defense company. The firm planned to route a Russian helicopter sale through a UAE-based firm in an attempt to avoid dealing with Russia's blacklisted weapons export control agency. That deal, for Mi-17 helicopters, could eventually reach half a billion dollars, if it includes Afghanistan.

This is by no means an anomaly. Earlier this month, I wrote an article and a series of blog posts about how Defense Solutions, a company linked to former Congressman Curt Weldon, has tested the legal bounds of this new arms bazaar in Iraq, Russia and Libya.

These deals are all colors of shady. But at the end of the day, who's to blame? The Defense Department and its novel interpretation of U.S. laws? The State Department and its inability to manage U.S. foreign assistance and export control laws? The defense companies willing to wheel and deal in this gray market? Or, a conspiracy of well-connected former officials out to make a quick buck?

[AdHocSolver]

8. War is all about making profit. It has been that way for thousands of years.

Some of our largest corporations sold war materiel to Germany during WWII. Let's not forget Prescott Bush financing the Nazis, until cited under the "Trading with the Enemies Act" in 1943. After the war, he was elected Senator.

The Republicans are only interested (as seen by their actions) in restarting the "Cold War" so as to bring back those huge profits they once made. Putting Americans (or maybe Chinese) to work building new weapons systems is great for the bottom line.

It seemed obvious as to their game plan with the push to get Poland to buy missile batteries to defend against Iranian missile attacks. Why would the Iranians wish to attack Poland? Meanwhile, why would Russia tolerate putting U.S. (made in China?) missiles on their border? Did the U.S. tolerate Russian missiles in Cuba? How dumb do the Republicans (and the military/industrial corporations) think the world is?

The Defense Department is no longer about protecting America. It is all about selling weapons systems world-wide. Their motto could be "Made anywhere, sold to anyone."

[ForrestGump]

6. There is only One:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJzgmBBSA8U

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Who's going to stand up to the evil man-beasts taking our Stride gum?

John McCain will!

[treestar]

10. Who is going to be able to make peace with the Russians?

A brilliant lawyer or an impulsive, rage-prone maniac past retirement age?

Quit letting the repukes frame everything!!!!!!!!! The M$M of course will do it this way, but they are not in complete control any more.

That is why they are increasingly hysterical. They know we can get around them on the internet and comment on them. They are used to the passive audience and think themselves great power brokers. Which they never were, but it was their delusional dream and now it is shattering.

[MadrasT]

11. Underdog!