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BUSH ON GEORGIA: NOT THE SAME AS IRAQ BECAUSE WE ARE AMERICA

August 19 2008

Washington, D.C. – While the Bush administration continues to lob verbal assaults against the Russian government for their actions in South Ossetia and Georgia, critics are pointing out more and more the superficial similarities to the U.S.’s own actions in Iraq. The Bush administration is dismissing those criticisms though, reminding reporters that in that case it was America who attacked not Russia.

“The official government line is that the United States government opposes the Russian aggression in the region,” said a White House spokesperson. “Aside from the unsolicited attacks and the abundance of oil in the region, There is very little connection to or similarity to the war in Iraq. Fundamentally this is different because America acts in the best interests of the world and other countries do not.”  

Word from insiders is this line of thinking is taken almost word for word from the President himself who sees the situation in Georgia as untenable.

“President Bush does not believe it is right for other countries to act in conflicts. More importantly, he believes it is a totally unacceptable situation for another country to act aggressively against another if it interferes with the interests of the United States,” an insider told us. “Take the situation in Myanmar (Burma). The United States has stayed out of that conflict because it doesn’t affect its interests. The President would rather just have them fight it out for themselves and solve it on their own. Georgia is a different situation. We have a financial stake there.”

For the record, Myanmar has been burdened by oppressive military for a number of years and has been acknowledged by human rights organizations as one of the worst conflicts in the world.

There have also been rumours that initially President Bush was under the impression that the state of Georgia had been attacked, not the country. While in China for the Olympics, he placed a call the Vice President Dick Cheney to inquire as to any significant financial assets that were in the State that would require protection, at which time Cheney informed the President of the proper details.

“I won’t speak to that. I have heard the same thing but I think that fear was fairly common across the country. What I do know is that Cheney advised the President that the Georgian situation might affect oil flow and that was when the President spoke to (Russian Prime Minister) Putin. What he said was that Russia could not keep attacking countries, that they would only accept the United States attacking other countries for profit. That was only after the Prime Minister started haranguing him on Iraq. Bush blew him off an just reiterated their position. He’s fine with countries acting in their own best interest as long as it doesn’t affect the United States. Myanmar, Uganda, those are fine. Oil rich Caucus countries, that’s a different story.”

It should be noted that while a peace deal has been brokered, Russian forces have made little apparent attempt to move out of the region. Further, crude oil prices have been dropping steadily for the last month.

Neither the office of the President or the Vice President had any comment on the rumours.

Mike Michaels, American Correspondent 

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