In the presence of Sec State Rice, President Saakashvili said todaythe same thing as Kasparov:

While — when in April, in Bucharest, Georgia was denied Membership Action Plan by some members of NATO, I warned Western media at that stage that it was asking for trouble. Not only they denied us Membership Action Plan, but they specifically told the world that they are denying Georgia Membership Action Plan because of existing territorial conflicts in Georgia, basically inviting the trouble.
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I saw my old professor Zbignew Brezinski say on TV today. “Now its inevitable that Georgia will get Nato membership.”

I think not. The French were wise to block this one. Saakashvili went on to say that because Georgia was denied NATO membership the Russians were encouraged to invade. ie the Nato verdict was self fulfilling.

Is Bush right to say the Ruskies shouldn’t be bullying their neighbors. Yes. Should be backing that up with treaty commitments that bind us to war. No. There are plenty of other levers the USA can pull.

As with the moslems the first duty of the next American president is to get the USA off dependence on foreign oil pronto.

That’s leadership.