Is Bush Trying to Start another Cold War?
by Jeff Davis
Remember the famous ending scene in the movie Fail Safe, where Slim Pickens rides the atomic bomb down into a target in Russia yelling “Yee-Haw!” and waving his cowboy hat? Well, thanks to Dubya’s incompetent bungling or deliberate insults, we may be about to get a blast from the past, quite literally.
The Daily Telegraph of London reports: “As Condoleezza Rice arrived in Georgia to finalise a peace deal and secure the withdrawal of Russian troops from the former Soviet state, Moscow issued the direct threat to another US ally. ‘Poland is making itself a target. This is 100 percent certain,’ Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted General Anatoly Nogovitsyn as saying. ‘It becomes a target for attack. Such targets are destroyed as a first priority,’” Poland recently joined NATO and is making noises about allowing the Americans to put nuclear missiles on their territory, right across from the Russian border and within ballistic “spitting distance” of St. Petersburg and Moscow.
The Telegraph goes on “[General Novogitsyn] added that Russia’s military doctrine sanctions the use of nuclear weapons against the allies of countries having nuclear weapons if they in some way help them. George W Bush, speaking in Washington accused Russian President Dmitry Medvedev of bullying his neighbours and said the tactics were working against Russia’s interests on the international stage… Following months of discontent over the planned siting of the US missile shield, Russia reacted furiously last night when Washington sweetened its package with an agreement to sell a Patriot defence battery to Warsaw.”
JFK reacted with a naval blockade (just one step short of war) when the Russians tried sending missiles to Cuba right in America’s “backyard.”
One wonders if Bush is sober now after having made a drunken fool of himself at the Beijing Olympics, staggering around sloshed in the stands, grabbing volleyball players and having to be physically supported by Secret Service agents so he wouldn’t fall down. It’s amazing Bush would accuse others of “bullying” if that ain’t the pot calling the kettle black!
The Telegraph article continues “The US Secretary of State arrived in Tbilisi today to secure the withdrawal of Russian combat forces to ceasefire lines but Russian forces maintained a stranglehold on key strategic points from the west to the east of Georgia, though the military appeared to have begun a staged withdrawal from the flashpoint town of Gori. Miss Rice brought with her a draft French-brokered ceasefire that would require Russia to withdraw its combat troops from Georgia but would allow Russian peacekeepers to remain in the flash-point separatist region of South Ossetia and temporarily patrol outside the area.”
In other words, the Russians won and they’re not handing Ossetia back to the Georgians, who are a completely insignificant ally to the US. There is no way Georgia is worth the bad relations with Russia that they (and Bush) have already caused.
The Jewish president of Georgia, Saakashvili, thought the U.S. had his back for some reason and tried to invade and conquer South Ossetia. In the process the Georgian military abused Russian civilians, a fact which the extremely ignorant Condoleezza Rice seemed not to know. The Big Bad Bear chomped down hard and smashed the Georgians, and all the neocon pundits are running around like chickens with their heads cut off because -under Putin- Russia has rebounded after throwing out the Jewish oligarchs who ruled ten years ago and no one can do anything about it. The embarrassment to the United States and Israel is very acute, especially Israel, since the Israelis trained and armed the Georgian army which just got its butt kicked. I don’t think Israeli military advisers will get much work in the future. In contrast Hezbollah in Lebanon, who knocked out 50+ Israeli tanks a couple years ago and stopped an Israeli offensive, apparently fight much better.
Bush is clearly trying to provoke a new “cold war” with a free and democratic Russia. For this alone, Bush should be impeached. The US should be making Russia our new best friend, but the Jews view Russia with suspicion, and they tell Bush what to do.
Let’s hope Bush isn’t dumb enough to attack Russia. Surely not…
He isn’t, is he?
Is he?