{"id":435,"date":"2008-08-12T17:04:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T22:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2008-08-12T22:00:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T03:00:26","slug":"mccains-world-warring-lunacy-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/mccains-world-warring-lunacy-on-display\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain&#8217;s World Warring Lunacy On Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The clash between Russia and Georgia is the conflict of two thuggish, authoritarian governments.\u00a0\u00a0 The American media seems to usually forget that it was Georgia that launched the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict is highlighting the lunacy of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/12\/us\/politics\/12mccain.html\">McCain&#8217;s warmongering instincts<\/a><\/strong>. Mr. McCain\u2019s top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was until recently a lobbyist for the government of Georgia.\u00a0\u00a0 Scheunemann was previously a key tool for Chalabi and the selling of the lies upon which the Iraq war was based.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps that was his highest recommendation to McCain.<\/p>\n<p>McCain has been yammering for years about how Georgia should be allowed to join NATO (which G W Bush also championed).\u00a0 If Georgia was a NATO member, then the United States would be obliged to defend the militant nation &#8211; probably regardless of whether Georgia initiated a war with Russia.\u00a0 But McCain seems to feel that war is\u00a0 therapeutic for the nation &#8211; or at least that it works out well for former POWs trumpeting themselves to be great leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan O&#8217;Neil has an excellent analysis<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php?\/site\/article\/5568\"><strong> here<\/strong> <\/a>exposing the charade of the mainstream media&#8217;s narrative of this war.<\/p>\n<p>It is tragic that so many innocent people have already perished in this conflict.\u00a0 I hope we can speedily find out the truth of the role of the Bush administration or others in encouraging or enabling the Georgian government to launch the initial attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clash between Russia and Georgia is the conflict of two thuggish, authoritarian governments.\u00a0\u00a0 The American media seems to usually forget that it was Georgia that launched the attack. 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