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To: michael97123 who wrote (410252)	8/25/2008 2:52:11 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577194

Michael, > Note how ted was going to visit democratic georgia on his next euro vacation--where does this substitute teacher get all this dough??? Beats me. Talk is cheap, though. Tenchusatsu

To: michael97123 who wrote (410252)	8/26/2008 1:11:56 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577194

We found with ted that the only wars libs are for is wars we win like kosovo. Hmmm.......you like wars where we lose. Interesting concept. Only if everything were so easy. And believe me if the guy who got shot down who was eating nuts with the squirrels had died, ted would have been against kosovo as well. Note how ted was going to visit democratic georgia on his next euro vacation--where does this substitute teacher get all this dough??? I was in real estate before I was a teacher....really good at it too. ;-) But Ted changed his tune once he saw Bush admin ally himself with the georgians against his new love, the south Ossetians. Now Ted plans a russian vacation and a visit to the Ossetia. What a joke. Huh? Like a true GOPer, you make up sh*t as you go along.

To: michael97123 who wrote (410252)	8/26/2008 1:16:37 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577194

Russia's Power Play Could Shift Oil Flows By Vincent Farrell Jr. 8/25/2008 6:23 PM EDT There was a report earlier from a Turkish news source that Kazakhstan is considering moving its oil through Russian pipelines and not shipping it to Baku for transport through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline. Currently, Kazakhstan ships 500,000 barrels a day by tanker across the Caspian Sea to the BTC pipe and is half the capacity of that pipe. This is the pipe that goes through Georgia to Turkey. This is only one of the "reassessments" we will surely see as former Soviet satellites consider the newly aggressive Russia and the events in Georgia and South Ossetia. Kazakhstan is one-third Russian ethnically and never sought membership in NATO as its geography makes Russia the natural security partner. But this is just the beginning. The Kazakhs had considered being part of a new 440 mile underwater pipe through the Caspian from Aktua to Baku, but that is probably up in the air. That pipeline would have cost over $3 billion and, as events seem to indicate, been under Russian influence. The pipeline would save $3 billion, which would have needed Western financial participation. That's now problematic. Kazakhstan does ship 200,000 barrels a day eastward to China and look for China to try to reach into the region and become more influential. Look also for the US to attempt a greater rapprochement with China to offset growing Russian influence.