War is brewing in Georgia over oil and gas. Our next disaster?

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Reuters:

"Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili called for an immediate ceasefire with South Ossetian separatists on Thursday after days of fighting raised fears of new war in the Caucasus. . .

Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia enjoy the political and financial backing of Russia, but ex-Soviet Georgia has allied itself with the West and is pushing for membership of NATO. It lies at the heart of a region emerging as is a vital energy transit route. . .

Russia said Georgia was readying for war.

'We urge the Georgian leadership to show common sense and stop irresponsible military activities in South Ossetia,' Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told the Interfax news agency.

'We view the situation as extremely dangerous. It has indeed reached a stage of unprecedented drama,' the Itar-Tass news agency quoted him as saying."

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-georgia-ossetia.html?ref=world

Luckily, we have US troops on the scene "training" Georgian troops.

Check out previous post about all the oil and gas pipelines at stake here:

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/bushmeister0/24

War may be bad for the folks in the region, but good for McCain's foreign policy guru Randy Scheunemann.

Accoding to Right Web Scheunemann has been an "American advisor" to the Georgian government and has business interests in the region. The AP reports: "Scheunemann . . . lobbied the National Security Council and the State Department regarding energy issues in the Caspian region in 2005 and 2006 on behalf of another Payne firm, Caspian Alliance Inc., according to the records." That's Steven Payne, the guy caught solisiting foreign donars for W.'s Lie-brary by promising access.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3403983

While we're all looking at Iran, here come the freakin' Russians to snap us in the ass.

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1. Georgia War

Oh, I thought you were talking about Rep Hank Johnson fighting Rep Phil 'Yuck Yuck' Gingrey

:rofl::rofl: :hi:

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2. Button Gwinnett is officiating.