What Does Karl Rove Have to Do With War in Georgia?
August 22nd, 2008And what does that have to do with the McCain campaign?
What did Karl Rove do while when he left the country and defied a Congressional subpoena to testify under oath before the House Judiciary Committee in the political prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman? Well, it turns out he was in Yalta — with the president of Georgia.
While Karl Rove was subpoenaed to testify before congress regarding the Don Siegelman case, he was on “vacation” (July 10-13, 2008 - Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine) at the 5th Annual Yalta Meeting. Also in attendance was Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia. Some four weeks after this meeting, Saakashvili attempted to repatriate South Ossetia and started a war with Russia.
We report. You decide.
Would the political animal who promised the Christians to push an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage in 2004 to get George W. Bush reelected go to Yalta and sucker Saakashvili into starting a conflict with Russia just to benefit John McCain’s presidential campaign?
Nah, that would be a lefty conspiracy theory, right?
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Considering that the Bush crime family facilitates the killing of men and women in uniform, some of whose parents voted the bastards into office (not that the elections weren’t stolen in actuality), and considering that they’re willing to sacrifice untold numbers of innocent Iraqis on a daily basis, and considering the maimed bodies and souls that are being generated in the name of god-knows-what “noble” cause, and considering all their inaction before and after Katrina and all the rest of the travesty that is this administration, nothing surprises me. But it’s truly gut-wrenching. It’s so far beyond heinous, I can’t find the vocabulary to describe Rove.
MARILYN NOYES
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:09 pm
If the entire Russia-Georgia conflict was in fact engineered for political purpose, it would not surprise me. I frequently refer to Rove and other Bush operatives as “Machiavellian,” and not without reason.
The Bush White House and Rice State Department are fully aware of the paranoid nationalism of the current Russian government. Manipulating Georgia to push Putin’s buttons is not only conceivable, but probable.
Otto von Bismarck, the architect of the German Empire in the late 19th century, helped invent this kind of “great power” intrigue and manuvering in the modern era. It serves no legitimate interest, but does serve the political agendas of ruling elites, in this case both in the US and in Russia.
Maybe, like the prosecutors and defense attorneys on TV’s “Law & Order,” they all get together for drinks and a good laugh afterwards at watering holes in DC and Moscow.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:33 am
This is an important story, too bad it seems to have gotten buried under the coverage of McCain not remembering how many homes he has and waiting for the VP announcement. I really wondered why the president of Georgia thought McCain could do anything but talk about the situation there. Rove must have fed him quite a line for him to believe that McCain could do more than act presidential.