Check McClatchy and Timesonline-- it looks like the Georgian guy attacked the breakaway regions first, which was the break the Russians were looking for.  Propaganda says who cares, but there may be an important point here.  Isn't John McBush mobbed up with a Georgia lobbiest?  Should the BushCo CIA know what our tool in the region Mr. Saakashvili was up to?  In the name of everything that runs on oil, did BushCo greenlight this fool?  What in the wide wide world of oil wars were they thinking?  And by the way, isn't it a little more than troubling that the Kurds attack on the BTC pipeline in Turkey appear to coincide with these blunders?  There is a price to be paid for hiring clowns.

by NicoloM on 08/13/2008 05:07:29 PM EST

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this whole thing. I know that the Kurds have accused the U.S. of supporting Kurdish rebels, but I struggle to understand why. The BTC pipeline was the joint project of Turkey, our NATO ally, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, the agreement being signed under the auspices of the Clinton adminstration (Clinton was in Istanbul and signed the agreement as a witness.)

Why in Exxon's name would Bush have  Saakashvili provoke Russia so that they could destroy the pipeline? Doesn't that pipeline help to diminish the power of both Iran and Russia?

Something very f-ed up is going on here. Possibly something more evil than stuff us libs usually acuse those criminals of. I don't like it one bit. 

by duchessnoir on 08/13/2008 07:24:16 PM EST

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