Hypocrisy!
Dec. 5th, 2003 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravencallscrowsFrom the Associated Press, dateline: 5 December; Tblisi, Georgia
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld assured Georgia's interim leaders on Friday that the United States supports the former Soviet republic's independence and urged Russia to withdraw its troops as it promised to do four years ago.
At a news conference with the acting president, Nino Burdzhanadze, Rumsfeld also cautioned that a "credible election process" leading to a scheduled Jan. 4 vote for president is "critical to stability in Georgia."
The United States sees Georgia as an important partner in the Caucasus region of southwest Asia, in part because it stands in the path of a planned oil pipeline that would link the Caspian and Mediterranean seas. It also is at what some consider a crossroads for international terrorists and trafficking in weapons and drugs.
Georgia has publicly backed the Bush administration's fight against terror as well as the war in and occupation of Iraq.
"We have had good meetings with the president and certainly wanted to underscore America's very strong support for stability and security and the territorial integrity here in Georgia," Rumsfeld said. "The United States agrees that Russia should fulfill its commitment under the Istanbul Accords to withdraw Russian forces from Georgia."
Mr. Rumsfeld, when U.S. forces are out of Iraq and Afghanistan; perhaps you'll be in a position to approach your counterpart, Sergei Ivanov, and request that his nation comply with treaty obligations. As long as your nation is occupying another, having started a war of aggression in contravention of international law, you should expect to be told "Соединенные Штаты Америки, Россия- какаыа разнитса. Иди на кхуы!"
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld assured Georgia's interim leaders on Friday that the United States supports the former Soviet republic's independence and urged Russia to withdraw its troops as it promised to do four years ago.
At a news conference with the acting president, Nino Burdzhanadze, Rumsfeld also cautioned that a "credible election process" leading to a scheduled Jan. 4 vote for president is "critical to stability in Georgia."
The United States sees Georgia as an important partner in the Caucasus region of southwest Asia, in part because it stands in the path of a planned oil pipeline that would link the Caspian and Mediterranean seas. It also is at what some consider a crossroads for international terrorists and trafficking in weapons and drugs.
Georgia has publicly backed the Bush administration's fight against terror as well as the war in and occupation of Iraq.
"We have had good meetings with the president and certainly wanted to underscore America's very strong support for stability and security and the territorial integrity here in Georgia," Rumsfeld said. "The United States agrees that Russia should fulfill its commitment under the Istanbul Accords to withdraw Russian forces from Georgia."
Mr. Rumsfeld, when U.S. forces are out of Iraq and Afghanistan; perhaps you'll be in a position to approach your counterpart, Sergei Ivanov, and request that his nation comply with treaty obligations. As long as your nation is occupying another, having started a war of aggression in contravention of international law, you should expect to be told "Соединенные Штаты Америки, Россия- какаыа разнитса. Иди на кхуы!"
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Date: 2003-12-05 05:00 pm (UTC)(your son *with a capital A* is not happy I've hopped on the 'puter to say bye, and is whining in my face ):< even though I asked him nicely)
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Date: 2003-12-05 06:16 pm (UTC)