“Du sublime au ridicule il n’y a qu’un pas”. For those who don’t speak French, this is a beautiful mot by Napoleon meaning ‘From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step’.
Senators Lieberman and Graham were in Georgia today representing the Senate Armed Services Committee but assessing humanitarian needs. It is so touching to see how the US Senate Armed Services Committee embraces humanitarian missions around the world!
Dual national Lieberman and Senator Graham met the Georgian refugees today who according to AP seem to have asked for anti-aircraft and anti-tank systems as humanitarian assistance.
Can’t the empire even be bothered to ‘season’ its stories a little better?
Lieberman advocates stronger Georgia defense
By DAVID RISING – 2 hours ago
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A prominent U.S. senator advocated strengthening Georgia's capability to defend itself against possible future Russian attack as he visited the country Wednesday in a signal of solidarity.
Senators Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, representing the Senate Armed Services Committee, met displaced Georgians, government officials including President Mikhail Saakashvili, and U.S. Brig. Gen. Jon Miller, who is in Georgia with a team assessing humanitarian needs.
Lieberman said he and Graham "would like to see the United States provide assistance to the Georgian military — self-defense equipment that will help them defend and deter against Russian aggression in the future" — specifically, anti-aircraft and anti-tank systems.
After meeting Georgian officials, he said, "we asked them what security needs they had, and they were quite specific and quite defined."
As for other aid, "billions of dollars are what are needed here" for humanitarian assistance and rebuilding infrastructure, said Lieberman, an independent and close friend of Republican presidential hopeful John McCain.
The U.S. has been flying aid to Georgia, where recent estimates suggest about 100,000 people have been displaced by the two-week conflict with Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
Humanitarian aid?? I like AP’s lack of qualification of the type of aid flown in as well as its association of the word ‘aid’ with the words ‘100,000 displaced people’
About half of the displaced Georgians have taken refuge in schools, municipal offices and even condemned buildings in and around the Georgian capital, Tbilisi.
Speaking to women at a displaced persons' center set up at a former government forestry institute in Tbilisi, Lieberman said: "We're not going to let this aggression stand. The world is behind you."
"We can't let a bully do this, because if they do it here, they'll do it other places, and if we don't stop it here we'll have to stop it in a much more difficult way," Lieberman added.
Graham, a South Carolina Republican, spoke alongside Lieberman and said that the Russians are "not going to prevent the American people from helping you."
The senators' trip was also taking them to Ukraine and Poland. #ff0000">(#ff0000">For humanitarian aid too.. like the US ‘humanitarian missile shields'?)
In a pre-trip statement, Graham said the visit was meant to show U.S. "support and solidarity" for Georgia, Poland and Ukraine, "particularly in light of the recent aggression against Georgia."
"I believe it is in our own national security interests to stop Russia from continuing its aggressive actions against Georgia or threatening other countries in the region," he said in a joint statement with Lieberman.
Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Submitted by Cherifa Sirry on Thu, 2008-08-21 02:06
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Du sublime au ridicule, en effet!
Comme notre amour Al Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah l'a si bien dit, le conflict en Géorgie devrait être une leçon pour toutes les nations du monde qui acceptent l'offre des États-Unis et d'Israel de les guider dans des mauvaises aventures ainsi que des guerres et des confrontations mal calculées. Puisqu'à la toute fin ils seront certainement les perdants.
http://jnoubiyeh.blogspot.com/
..the zio-cons are trying to start a war with Russia, fought by others, whilst they mull attacking everyone else in the region as well; those that they haven't already attacked, anyway.
These traitor motherfuckers are so full of shit, they are like walking bags of feces that exhale hot sewer wind and spit diahhrea. There is only one answer for devils like that, it is the punishment for treason. There is no 'national security' reason for any of the crap these slimey bastards have done to everyone, especially to the Iraqis.
Was it some sort of sick revenge?
Is that why saddam was beheaded 'talmud style'?