Comments on: What Does Karl Rove Have to Do With War in Georgia? http://blog.locustfork.net/2008/08/22/what-do-karl-rove-and-war-in-georgia-have-in-common/ A Wide Open Weblog for Big News, the Big Picture Mon, 22 Mar 2010 05:21:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jim gundlach http://blog.locustfork.net/2008/08/22/what-do-karl-rove-and-war-in-georgia-have-in-common/comment-page-1/#comment-12956 jim gundlach Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:33:37 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/2008/08/22/what-do-karl-rove-and-war-in-georgia-have-in-common/#comment-12956 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. 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.

]]> By: Yana Davis http://blog.locustfork.net/2008/08/22/what-do-karl-rove-and-war-in-georgia-have-in-common/comment-page-1/#comment-12858 Yana Davis Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:09:31 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/2008/08/22/what-do-karl-rove-and-war-in-georgia-have-in-common/#comment-12858 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. 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.

]]> By: Glynn Wilson http://blog.locustfork.net/2008/08/22/what-do-karl-rove-and-war-in-georgia-have-in-common/comment-page-1/#comment-12753 Glynn Wilson Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:04:56 +0000 http://blog.locustfork.net/2008/08/22/what-do-karl-rove-and-war-in-georgia-have-in-common/#comment-12753 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 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

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