U.S./Georgia vs. Russia - Background Facts

The Bush Administrations & McCain campaign pronouncements on the Georgia v. Russia, situation should taken with a grain-of-salt; fortunately European governments in the know are not so quick to pull the trigger.

The Soviet Union ( U.S.S.R ) fell apart in the 1990's; part and parcel to the break-up many of the component historical states sought complete independence, and many of the regions within those components wanted separate recognition and identity, e.g., Kosovo. Some of the regions within the historical states, have ethnic enclaves and comprise relatively small areas of land; Kosovo for example comprises around 4,100 acres of land. In the U.S. these enclaves would be considered mere neighborhoods where persons of particular ethnic backgrounds live and congregate, e.g, Little Italy in New York; but inspite of size, the U.S. has been skilled in igniting and exploiting regional European ethnic divides. European NATO members have been left to police the pieces, with little cost to the U.S., and bear the burden and the majority of the costs associated with long term deployments.

The U.S. has had and maintained a "divide and conquer foreign policy " for years, spanning both Republican and Democratic administrations. The break up of the Soviet Union presented the U.S. with numerous opportunities to aggressively pursue this "divide and conquer " policy. One of the strategies employed by the U.S. has been to "groom" potential leaders for placement as heads of emerging foreign states, and by financially supporting and encouraging independence claims of ethnic groups. The U.S. rush to recruit and groom future leaders of U.S.S.R. fall-out states , including $100's of millions in U.S. aid, often funneled through CIA fronts, has touched and re-shaped the geo-politics of Europe. Big Oil has had a major say in U.S. foreign policy, dictating specific geographic regions of priority concern. Those geographic regions given U.S. priority co-incidentally have oil, natural gas, and/or pipelines as a Common Thread. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and GEORGIA all share this Common Thread. One of the objects of Big Oil is to choke off Western Europe from access to cheap Russian oil and natural gas and the Bush Administration has dutifully responded with its "get tough" with Russia policies. Western media have again been sucked in by the U.S./ Bush Administrations "cold war" rhetoric, the mask obscuring the true purpose: BIG PROFITS for Big Oil and U.S. military contractors.

Consistent with the U.S. "divide and conquer" foreign policy, the U.S recruited Mikheil Saakashvilli, educated him at New York law schools, and provided him with a position in a prominent New York law firm, until it was opportune to send him back to Georgia, with U.S. intelligence and financial support, to position Saakashvilli so that he, in 2004, would be elected President of break-away Georgia. The U.S. also financed (in the neighborhod of $400 million U.S. taxpayer dollars ), armed and trained Saakashvilli's supporters, currently referred to Georgian forces, 2000 of whom were deployed to Iraq.

From 1922 to August, 2008, two ethnic enclaves/ regions of historical Georgia, had operated autonomously : South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In the summer, 2007, the U.S. sent over 1000 U.S. marines and special forces to Georgia to "conduct military exercises " with the Georgian forces. This was a "veiled " U.S. excuse to plan and provide Georgian forces with armament, ammunition and other military equipment, ordnance and intelligence, so that Georgian forces could invade the autonomous regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, staged to occur corresponding to the opening of the Olympic games in Beijing where the U.S. knew Prime Minister Putin and President Bush would be in attendance. The Georgian forces ( U.S. proxy ) invasion and carnage in South Ossetia, was calculated to embarrass Russia on the World Stage and diminish the spotlight on China [ kill two birds with one stone approach]; McCain was penciled in as a third party beneficiary. As with many of the Bush Administrations calculations, things have not worked out as planned; and thousands of civilians in the region have suffered or died and towns have been destroyed.

The by-lines of Bush Administration do not represent the whole truth of matters. The U.S. public deserves to know that there are opposing views and how $100's of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are being spent abroad to further the financial gains of Big Oil and U.S. military contractors. The Bush Administration has discarded the U.S. mantle of peace-maker, and has turned the U.S. into the worlds No.1, For-Profit "trouble-maker".

Georgia - Here We Go Again - Common Thread= OIL

The recent rant of McCain regarding the Russian/Georgian situation reinforces his prior pledge, if elected, to engage in " 100 year[s] of war in the middle east ". As with Bush, McCain advocates diplomacy from the barrel of a gun, a gun for hired by Big Oil. NOTE McCAIN'S OPEN REFERENCE TO THE OIL PIPELINE IN THE REGION. As in the case of Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran, the common underlying thread is OIL or pipelines transporting OIL.

McCain, Bush and crew have privatized the U.S. military, under the guise of U.S. interests, as the hit men for BIG OIL. We U.S. citizens will never know how many millions are being funneled into secret foreign bank accounts of Bush, Cheney, McCain, U.S. Generals and Admirals, by BIG OIL, in payment for their "services" in the middle-east.

People have short memories, President Eisenhower warned about the takeover of the U.S. Government by the military and industrial ( Big Oil ) interests. Here we go again, committing U.S. taxpayer dollars and American blood so that Big Oil and its execs can enjoy BIG PROFITS.