Michael O'Hanlon and Robert Kagan on This Week in Politics

Darnnit - doesn't Russia know that only the US can attack sovereign nations.

Now the media are revising the facts to manage public perception, just as they did with the fictional WMD in Iraq. Nearly every article and TV news segment in the neoconservative corporate media begins with accusations of Russian aggression, concealing the fact that the Georgian Army bombarded and invaded the capital of South Ossetia one full day before the first Russian even tank crossed the border. By the time the Russians arrived, the city was already in a shambles and thousands were dead.

Obama was totally appropriate in his response. He was both evenhanded and fair with respect to the Russia/Georgia conflict. Obama's foreign policy approach is exactly what the international community has been clamoring from the U.S.: a fair and honest broker; not the Russians are the bad guys; or the Palestinians are the bad guys; or, I can only see things in black or white, which is the McCain, GOP, and certainly the Bush administration's approach.

There is no condemnation whatsoever by the U.S. that Georgia started this conflict. Saakashvili was even warned by the U.S. to not engage the breakaway regions militarily prior to the conflict. And there is no reason that we should be pushing to put a missle defense shield in Poland to protect it from "rogue states," such as Iran. Iran is not going to attack Poland. This is very provocative behavior that the U.S. is engaging. The months cannot come sooner to get the Bush adm. out of office.

Fuck these two lying neocon assholes. Saddam killed a million people? I guess if you include the Iran/Iraq war he did. Then again, given that we sided with Iraq/Saddam during that war you could say the US helped to kill most of those million. Neocons routinely peddle lies and half truths- and our bullshit media never calls them on it.