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To: i-node who wrote (407568)	8/18/2008 12:01:27 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572033

WTF is it you want, anyway? It isn't like Bush made some kind of mistake here. This is a matter of Putin unilaterally doing what he's doing. Bush is left to do the best he can to make lemonade out of lemons. How can you sit and post on this thread that Bush has done nothing to facilitate this mess? Turn off your spam filter so you can get some real news. Do you want Bush to send troops to Georgia? That's a yes or no. No. Of course not. I want Bush and Condi to step away and let the Europeans handle it. If nothing else, they will jawbone everyone enough so people will have a chance to cool done. In the meantime, Georgia needs to have another election and get a more competent president. The only thing we know for sure is that Bush is handling it better than Obama or Kerry would have. In your dreams, o wise one.....in your dreams.

To: i-node who wrote (407568)	8/18/2008 12:02:18 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1572033

"The only thing we know for sure is that Bush is handling it better than Obama or Kerry would have." Appeasement like Neville Chamberlain with Hitler is definitely the way to go. As if he had any choice.

To: i-node who wrote (407568)	8/18/2008 12:22:30 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572033

"The only thing we know for sure is that Bush is handling it better than Obama or Kerry would have." You know that, how? You have a special machine that can examine alternate time lines? Your team has great imagination. And is very much prone to treating those fantasies like they are a reality.

To: i-node who wrote (407568)	8/18/2008 2:49:47 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572033

What a coincidence! Solzhenitsyn also had a drawn-the-cross-in-the-sand experience......just like McCain. Who would have thought two well known people would have had the same experience?! "Along with other prisoners, he worked in the fields day after day, in rain and sun, during summer and winter. His life appeared to be nothing more than backbreaking labor and slow starvation. The intense suffering reduced him to a state of despair. On one particular day, the hopelessness of his situation became too much for him. He saw no reason to continue his struggle, no reason to keep on living. His life made no difference in the world. So he gave up. Leaving his shovel on the ground, he slowly walked to a crude bench and sat down. He knew that at any moment a guard would order him to stand up, and when he failed to respond, the guard would beat him to death, probably with his own shovel. He had seen it happen to other prisoners. As he waited, head down, he felt a presence. Slowly he looked up and saw a skinny old prisoner squat down beside him. The man said nothing. Instead, he used a stick to trace in the dirt the sign of the Cross. The man then got back up and returned to his work. As Solzhenitsyn stared at the Cross drawn in the dirt his entire perspective changed. He knew he was only one man against the all-powerful Soviet empire. Yet he knew there was something greater than the evil he saw in the prison camp, something greater than the Soviet Union. He knew that hope for all people was represented by that simple Cross. Through the power of the Cross, anything was possible. Solzhenitsyn slowly rose to his feet, picked up his shovel, and went back to work. Outwardly, nothing had changed. Inside, he had received hope." [From Luke Veronis, "The Sign of the Cross"; Communion, issue 8, Pascha 1997.]