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RUSH: You know, ladies and gentlemen, several of my 35 Undeniable Truths of Life apply to events today, one of them in particular. Undeniable Truth of Life: ‘Ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.\u2019 It is. There is no alternative. There\u2019s no mistaking it. It is totally true. You know, world citizen Barack Obama can sit there and talk all he wants and blame America and think it\u2019s going to shape the world up and stop these kinds of things, but he\u2019s dead wrong. Interestingly, the UK Guardian — which is a very leftist publication — has an entirely different take on what happened with Russia and Georgia and who bears some responsibility for it. Everybody plays blame games in situations like this. For example, Obama and the Democrats blame Bush. Some of them blame McCain for starting this war to help his election campaign. I\u2019m not kidding you. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s all our fault. It\u2019s America\u2019s fault. Really if it\u2019s anybody\u2019s fault, it\u2019s Russia\u2019s. Or as Dimitri Simes says, there are no good guys here; both of these parties behaved in provocative ways, and of course Georgia being the smaller is going to take it on the chin. But the UK Guardian has another take on this. Let\u2019s go back to the April 3rd edition of the New York Times. Dateline, Bucharest, Romania: ‘President Bush threw the NATO summit meeting here off-script on Wednesday by lobbying hard to extend membership to Ukraine and Georgia, but he failed to rally support for the move among key allies. Mr. Bush\u2019s position — that Ukraine and Georgia should be welcomed into a Membership Action Plan, or MAP, that prepares nations for NATO membership — directly contradicted German and French government positions stated earlier this week.\u2019 So Bush went out on a limb and said we need to get these people started down the path toward membership in NATO, speaking of Ukraine and Georgia. <\/p>\n

Now, the Guardian yesterday, Michael Williams the story: ‘In April this year, an embattled American president went to the NATO summit in Bucharest and asked NATO allies to offer Ukraine and Georgia a membership action plan (MAP). Bush had been warned that European allies would not agree to the proposal, but he tried anyway. Back in Washington, European rejection of the MAP was greeted with disgust. As one left-wing foreign policy expert told me the fact that France was talking about a ‘balance of power with eastern Europe\u2019 illustrated that the organisation was becoming a joke. The Europeans, he said, ‘have not woken up to the realities of the world\u2019. He was livid, to say the least, about the refusal to offer a MAP to either country. And he, like myself,\u2019 writes Mr. Michael Williams, ‘was a Democrat.\u2019 I\u2019ll summarize the story for you in the Guardian. <\/p>\n

It is the very countries that Acting President Barack Obama wants us to give veto power over our decisions, as they vetoed Georgia\u2019s NATO membership — and the UK Guardian proffers the point that this encouraged Putin and the Russians that they could attack Georgia with impunity. The point of the UK Guardian story is that ”old\u2019 Europe\u2019 has a hand in this, too. So there\u2019s a lot of different analyses of all this going on, but no matter. When you get down to the bottom line, the Russians are behaving as the Russians always have, and they\u2019re the ones taking the action. This is a world governed by the aggressive use force. Now, let\u2019s go back to audiotape from yesterday on the Fox News Channel\u2019s Fox &amp; Friends, Gretchen Carlson talking to ‘The Eyebrow,\u2019 the governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine. She asked him, ‘How would you be advising Obama if in fact you were his pick as VP with this international crisis? Do you think his response was the right one?\u2019<\/p>\n

KAINE: It was a bad crisis for the world, it required tough words but also a smart approach to call on the international community to step in, and I\u2019m very, very happy that the senator\u2019s request for a ceasefire has been complied with.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Somebody needs to tell The Eyebrow that there may have been a ceasefire, but it\u2019s not been upheld. The Russians are continuing on to move, and they\u2019ve surrounded — last I heard, have surrounded — the town of Gori. Which, is that not aptly named, given what\u2019s going on? So they haven\u2019t stopped. They didn\u2019t listen to Obama. So it\u2019s time for Obama to either tell \u2019em again to stop — you know, once he gets off the surfboard out there in Hawaii. Tell \u2019em again to stop, \u2019cause they apparently didn\u2019t listen the first time. Here\u2019s McCain yesterday speaking with reporters.<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I know from speaking this morning to the president of Georgia, Misha Saakashvili, who I have known for many years, that he knows that the thoughts and the prayers and support of the American people are with that brave little nation as they struggle today for their freedom and independence. I know I speak for every American when I say to him, ‘Today, we are all Georgians.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. All right. Now, that did not sit well. That didn\u2019t sit well with members of the left. Tim Kaine, nobody is talking about Obama\u2019s diplomacy in Georgia now. Nobody\u2019s talking about it except you. Let\u2019s go to the audiotape late yesterday. The president of Georgia, Misha Saakashvili said this.<\/p>\n

SAAKASHVILI: John McCain said that Americans are supporting Georgia. McCain said, ‘We are Georgians today,\u2019 everybody are Georgians today.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Misha Saakashvili did not quote Obama, Tim Kaine. The Eyebrow needs to revisit this. Misha Saakashvili quoted McCain, not Obama. Now, Saakashvili made his appearances on American television today. He was on CNN\u2019s American Morning today, and he had this to say about what America should do.<\/p>\n

SAAKASHVILI: What America should do now first of all, clearly make known their intentions and we know that they\u2019re considering all kind of different options — then clearly send peacekeepers on the ground. Secure lifeline at least for the capital at this stage and push very hard to overcome the situation. Who else can stand up for liberty in the world?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whewwwww. That, folks, is the question of the day, and it is a question the American left does not want to hear. They don\u2019t want the responsibility. ‘Who else can stand up for liberty in the world?\u2019 No one else but us. Europeans aren\u2019t going to do it. NATO isn\u2019t going to do it. And if you listen to the Democrats and their presidential candidate, you don\u2019t don\u2019t get any confidence they\u2019re going to do anything but give those kinds of people veto power over whatever decisions we might make. Then, Misha Saakashvili said this about the Russians.<\/p>\n

SAAKASHVILI: Well, the implications are that the Russians are encroaching upon the capital. They\u2019re making a circle, and they are rushing in, you know, because their plan was always to take over the whole Georgia. Their plan was to establish their own government in Tbilisi, and their plan was to kill our democracy. They\u2019re in the process of coldblooded murder, and the world seems to just be watching it, you know, and not doing anything about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Pretty much the case. Nobody\u2019s doing much of anything about it. Nobody\u2019s done much about any of the wanton acts of violence of the Putin regime from the murdering of KGB agents in London who go off-path, to journalists that are being murdered and assassinated and poisoned. Nobody\u2019s doing anything. What do you expect Putin to do? He\u2019s getting away with all of these things with impunity. He knows while the Olympics are going on, he knows we\u2019re in the middle of a presidential campaign, he knows we\u2019re fighting a war in Afghanistan that there\u2019s not a whole lot we can do militarily — or he doesn\u2019t think that we will. I\u2019ll tell you, Bush spoke again today. And it sounded to me like Bush was throwing down the gauntlet. I want you to listen to a couple of sound bites we have of the president from the Rose Garden this morning.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: The United States of America stands with the democratically elected government of Georgia. We insist that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia be respected. Russia has stated that changing the government of Georgia is not its goal. The United States and the world expect Russia to honor that commitment. Russia has also stated that it has halted military operations and agreed to a provisional ceasefire. Unfortunately, we are receiving reports of Russian actions that are inconsistent with these statements.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the president continued…<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: I\u2019m sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to France where she will confer with President Sarkozy. She will then travel to Tbilisi where she will personally convey America\u2019s unwavering support for Georgia\u2019s democratic government. On this trip she will continue our efforts to rally the free world in the defense of a free Georgia. I\u2019ve also directed Secretary of Defense Bob Gates to begin a humanitarian mission to the people of Georgia headed by the United States Military. This mission will be vigorous and ongoing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You see why it sounds to me like he\u2019s throwing down the gauntlet. We\u2019re going to use the military ostensibly here for Meals on Wheels. We\u2019re sending in food and relief efforts, medical supplies and this sort of thing. There have been significant civilian casualties and deaths in Georgia and the neighboring environs, and so the US military, we\u2019re flying C-17s in there. We\u2019ve told the Russians, ‘We\u2019re coming, and you better not do anything about it.\u2019 But the Russians are going to say, ‘Wait a minute! You\u2019re sending military in? There are going to be uniformed military from the United States here flying in here on Meals on Wheels?\u2019 Now, I know the Russians, and the Russians aren\u2019t going to buy this Meals on Wheels thing. They\u2019re not. (laughing) I guarantee you. They don\u2019t use their military that way, and they don\u2019t think we\u2019ll use ours that way against them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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