Yes, well....if you look at that region and who supplies...

Posted By: sam on 2008-11-06
In Reply to: Bush/Saakashvili alliance is not about democracy. - It's about the oil (surprise, surprise)...sm

most of the oil in that region...Russia would have a HUGE bat to hold over people's heads. The pipeline through Georgia (the world's second largest by the way) in Russia's control gives them ALL the marbles. Russia could care less about the country of Georgia but they would love to control that pipeline. It is in the best interests of that entire part of the globe that they NOT.

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- Divide and conquer s/m - gourdpainter
  - It's sad. - Marmann
    - This time I agree it is sad - gourdpainter
      - I just wrote him - sbMT
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        I got generic reply, too... sm - m
        In all fairness... - Kendra
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      - Great idea, Gourdpainter. - Marmann
- Correct if I am wrong, but at the moment this is - President Bush's problem...sm
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    - Bush/Saakashvili alliance is not about democracy. - It's about the oil (surprise, surprise)...sm
      - Yes, well....if you look at that region and who supplies... - sam
  - The commend from Russia was directed at the new... - sam
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      - And to clarify...I did not insinuate that the new Prez... - sam
      - in case it missed your keen eye and it looks as if it did... - sam
      - Bush was told by congress about mass destruction. - Harsh.
- Yes, I am worried about Russia. - Russia.
  - I agree...have read the same thing. nm - MeMT
- That is the modus operandi of Russia.... - sam
- I have always been worried about Russia - Observer
  - First time I've read that quote...scary (nm) - dea
  - or the other quote...."we will take them over from inside... - sam

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Your head is up your nether-region.

I know my history of the region. The land of Israel is the hands of its rightful owners.

The Palestinians have been given the opportunity in 1947 when the UN granted a mandate separating the land into two states. The palestinians rejected the mandate and launched a civil war that Israel quickly won and declared their independence. Then in 1948 Israel was invaded by Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan which Israel one as well. The palestinians were given their chance and decided on violence instead and they were the losers. That's how it cookie crumbles.

In 1973 once again Israel's angry neighbors tried to invade, the Yom Kippur war. Israel was winning that one too when a cease fire was called. The palestinians lost fair and square. They could peacefully have coexisted with the Israeli's but they continually reject any peaceful solution and send their suicide bombers. Let's not forge the Oslo Peace Process in the early 1990s where Israeli government once again extended the olive branch agreeing to the PLO to form an autonomous government if they could agree to coexist with Israel and recognize Israel's right to exist. The palestinians answer? To laung Intifada II against the Israelis. Once again, more violence perpetrated by the palestinians.

Finally, what about the Sharon's disengagement plan implemented in 2005? Israeli government removed civilian and military presence from the Gaza Strip as a gesture to the palestinians so they could no longer claim that Gaza was an occupied" territory. Even after that gesture, the palestinians have refused to recognize Israel.

The palestinians do not want peace with the Israelis. They will settle for no less than the total annihilation of Israel as a nation which is the what the entire Arab world wants.