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Posted by PETE ABEL, Managing Editor in Places. Aug 8th, 2008 | View Comments
OTB has done the heavy lifting for those who want to understand what’s going on in the escalating conflict.
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What's to understand? The media will spin it this way and that, but the bottom line is that we allowed BigOil to lie to Congress to expand their empire into Iraq at our expen$e. Russia sat waiting for our military to be taxed, for us to be distracted with Obama and for our economy to be in the toilet.
And they took advantage of it. Like any strategic country would do.
Incidentally, if you want to get all judgemental with Russia for invading Georgia, remember this: they're invading a sovereign nation with the sole intent of controlling the oil flow there.
If the US thinks it can be the biggest hypocrite since the dawn of human history, it's got another thing coming. China stands to gain by forging an alliance with Russia to control oil. The US-BigOil sacked economy and war-tired troops against these two Superpowers?
Forget about it.
Can you spell D-R-A-F-T? Folks, you either speak out now or your 8-18 year olds will be dying on the fields of WWIII. If you think 911 was traumatic, you ain't seen nothin' yet.