"The more likely explanation of what Bush and Rice are up to is that they don't know what to do. Not just in Georgia but around the world, they are floundering."

Yep, I was about to get annoyed that the article was missing what seems to me to be both the most obvious and salient point: W and Rice and the rest are a bunch of boobs.

I'd been managing to keep going along on a slow simmer, but this idiocy over Russia has me boiling over. You could see it coming a mile away, the way we'd squandered every bit of credibility and power through the mindless machinations of the Mayberry machiavellians.

Another way of looking at it:

Think of it this way: Russia is playing chess, while the Americans are playing Monopoly. What Americans understand by "war games" is exactly what occurs on the board of the Parker Brothers' pastime. The board game Monopoly is won by placing as many hotels as possible on squares of the playing board. Substitute military bases, and you have the sum of American strategic thinking. Spengler

". . . mindless machinations of the Mayberry machiavellians."

I couldn't help but laugh at that one!

That's a damn good insight. I need to think about that one for awhile.

Sweet, Russian population declines are driving their brilliance at chess....meanwhile, next to article you linked, the option to purchase a Russian bride is presented. I get it now...they will force or coerce the absorbtion of ex-USSR territories, and send their quickly declining number of fertile females out to re-populate the mother-land with whatever they can get to mount them.

Don't know if the "strategery" the author admires is chess or 52-pickup.

I bet she knows a lot about Pushkin?

Rubma:

Sweet, Russian population declines are driving their brilliance at chess....meanwhile, next to article you linked, the option to purchase a Russian bride is presented. I get it now...they will force or coerce the absorbtion of ex-USSR territories, and send their quickly declining number of fertile females out to re-populate the mother-land with whatever they can get to mount them.

Don't know if the "strategery" the author admires is chess or 52-pickup.

Apparently Russia pays people to have kids (so I've heard)...apparently, not enough. Granted, considering domestic violence was nearly the norm until about 15 years ago, can't really blame the Russian women for not wanting to crank out some kids, nor for become mail-order brides.

The reason behind Secretary Rice's statement?

That, to me, is obvious. The Bush Administration considers itself completely unaccountable for anything it says or does. And so far that has proven to be absolutely correct.

When one is completely immune to consequences of any kind, then it does not matter one bit what one says. The words can be inconsistent, wrong, or complete nonsense. It does not matter because no one will be held to account.

So, the Bush Administration just puts out words and phrases from which FoxNews can extract nice sound bites for the evening broadcast. Neither the Republican Media, nor anyone else for that matter, will broadcast or reprint an entire speech, so that everyone can see that the Bush team is lying, wrong and incompetent.

It is not that they COULDN'T tell the truth. They just don't care. And there is no reason they have to care.

Philadelphia Steve:

The reason behind Secretary Rice's statement?

That, to me, is obvious. The Bush Administration considers itself completely unaccountable for anything it says or does. And so far that has proven to be absolutely correct.

When one is completely immune to consequences of any kind, then it does not matter one bit what one says. The words can be inconsistent, wrong, or complete nonsense. It does not matter because no one will be held to account.

So, the Bush Administration just puts out words and phrases from which FoxNews can extract nice sound bites for the evening broadcast. Neither the Republican Media, nor anyone else for that matter, will broadcast or reprint an entire speech, so that everyone can see that the Bush team is lying, wrong and incompetent.

It is not that they COULDN'T tell the truth. They just don't care. And there is no reason they have to care.

"Impeachment is off the table"-Nancy Pelosi

So to review, you can get impeached for lying about getting a blow job, but not for lying about how much you knew about 9/11 (couple hundred others in there...starting an illegal war, ignoring an entire city while it drowned, etc...) through issuing empty threats at a large country and former arch-enemy who has a violent leader and nuclear weapons. Way to go Bush, way to go Pelosi, thank you for screwing us over.

Impeachment would never happen anyway. Not with how sharply divided the two parties are. It would tie the govt up for months with horrendous bickering and basically tear the country apart. It's not that impeachment is not warranted, it's just not practical.

Vincent Bugliosi (sp?) thinks we should wait untill he's out of office, then try the twerp for mass murder. He thinks there's a good case which could win a conviction in an American court, seriously.

There's just so, so much, something would stick. One thing I'm pretty certain of is that Bush and Co probably won't be leaving the country the rest of their lives