Who let the Dogs out??

Senator McCain proclaimed “Today we are all Georgians” at a campaign stop yesterday in PA. WOW, when did that happen, I did not get any notice of any changes in my citizenship. I am absolutely amazed by this recent revival among the neo conservatives in the last few months. With the Iraq war stabilizing a bit since the troop surge and Barack Obama’s poll numbers stalling since the Democratic primaries, the Neo-conservatives think that that maybe they didn’t screw things up badly enough the first time and are starting to creep out of the woodwork and and have found a ready ear in Senator McCain.

Just when you would think that United States was going to get out of the business of policing the world and focus on the economy at home, Mr. Saakashvilli of Georgia decided to rile Vladimir Putin one too many times. I am surprised at the absolute naivete of this guy to think that he could pull something off like this and not get the reaction that he got from Russia. Russia had obviously been planning this long and hard, not something I can say about Mr. Saakashvilli and his handlers at the State Dept or his advisers in the McCain campaign.

It is with absolutely amazement that I hear the statements coming from this guy, the repeated references to the wars of the past, evoking the invasions of Prague, Poland and Afghanistan, the references to being the beacon of democracy, a free economy, freedom of press, evoke images of Ahmad Chalabi before the Iraq war and his rounds of the cable news networks in 2002. It was as if he was trying to get the United States and West to start a war with Russia. The script was too good, not to have come out of the neo conservative book who want to use the American military and economic power to advance their idea of democracy.

While I still haven’t completely gotten on board Obama train, the rhetoric coming from Senator McCain scares me even more. I don’t think we can have another four years of these idiots in power.