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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (773373)3/6/2014 11:28:03 PM
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"If he's suggesting that it happened because President Obama is seen as being weak, that would mean that Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 under Bush because they saw Bush as being weak. And I don't remember him saying that that was caused by George Bush,"
President Obama went to the White House Briefing Room on Friday to make comments on the Russian military moves in Ukraine, it was hard not to have a sense of déjà vu about how the United States was handling an aggressive Vladimir Putin.

"I'm deeply concerned about the situation," said the President. "The United States takes this matter very seriously."

Except that wasn't President Obama - that was President George W. Bush in August of 2008, when Russian forces invaded parts of Georgia, ignoring the verbal warnings of the U.S. and European nations.

Last Friday, President Obama almost exactly echoed Bush's words on Georgia, saying "we are now deeply concerned by reports of military movements taken by the Russian Federation inside of Ukraine."

Both U.S. Presidents were "deeply concerned" with Russian military moves.

But the Russians ignored such talk, and went ahead anyway in Georgia, taking lands that Putin still holds today.

Now a similar thing seems to be happening in Ukraine.

The scoreboard seems pretty clear: Putin 2, Obama & Bush 0.

It's easy for both parties to accuse the other of not doing enough on foreign policy. Democrats did that back in 2008, demanding that Mr. Bush do more about Putin's moves to annex parts of Georgia, South Ossettia and Abkhazia.
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