Update: THEY REMOVED the PHOTO and put ANOTHER in it's place!!
And it's been LESS THAN TWO HOURS!
Oh, SHAME ON YOU, New York Times!!!
You know, readers, Bush's nemesis!
How many things is this guy going to fuck up before he's locked up, shit-swimming AmeriKans?
"President Bush threw the NATO summit meeting here off-script on Wednesday with his firm public disagreement with two key allies, Germany and France, over how close a relationship the organization should have with Ukraine and Georgia, who aspire to membership.
Mr. Bush’s position — that Ukraine and Georgia should be welcomed into a Membership Action Plan, or MAP, that prepares nations for NATO membership — directly contradicted German and French government positions stated earlier this week.
But Mr. Bush was described by one senior American official as wanting to “lay down a marker” for his legacy as his presidency winds down, and as not wanting to “lose faith” with the Ukrainian and Georgian peoples and the other former republics of the Soviet Union.
Mr. Bush, speaking in advance of the meeting, said he was prepared to argue his case at a dinner of all NATO leaders on Wednesday night, before a decision is made on Ukraine and Georgia on Thursday. Germany and France have said they will block any invitation to Ukraine and Georgia.
“This is my final NATO summit,” Mr. Bush said. Referring to both Ukraine and Georgia’s democratic revolutions, he said: “Welcoming them into the Membership Action Plan would send a signal to their citizens that if they continue on the path to democracy and reform they will be welcomed into the institutions of Europe. It would send a signal throughout the region” — read Russia — “that these two nations are, and will remain, sovereign and independent states.”
The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, was described as upset and even angry on Wednesday by some German officials. She and Mr. Bush have had numerous conversations over the last two months about the issue, and Ms. Merkel had thought that a compromise solution was in the works. That was that Washington would support a warm statement welcoming the interest of Ukraine and Georgia in NATO and encouraging them to work toward a MAP membership in time for NATO’s 60th anniversary summit next year in Berlin.
Germany and France believe that since neither Ukraine nor Georgia are stable enough to enter the program now, a membership plan would be an unnecessary offense to Russia, which firmly opposes the move....
“MAP is more of a big stick than a big carrot,” said the Estonian president, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, at a conference here of the German Marshall Fund. “It forces nations to reform even when they don’t want to do it.”
Translation: FORCES them to JOIN the AMERICAN EMPIRE!!!
.... Ronald Asmus, who was a key figure in the Clinton administration’s enlargement of NATO and now runs the German Marshall Fund’s Brussels office, said that “Bush’s speech set up a dramatic battle that will be fought out over the next two days and whose outcome will be important in shaping his legacy, and America’s diplomatic standing in the alliance.”
AmeriKa's standing is shit, no matter where it is!
.... Derek Chollet, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, said that Mr. Bush’s speech was “a combination of valedictory and marker-laying.” Mr. Bush would probably lose the argument on Ukraine and Georgia, Mr. Chollet said. “But he doesn’t care so much, and he believes he’s on the right side of the issue.”
Then WHY DO IT? Why STICK a FINGER in Russia's eye?
WHY?
Getting NATO support for more troops in Afghanistan and for a limited European missile-defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic is probably more important to Mr. Bush before the meeting with Mr. Putin, Mr. Asmus and Mr. Chollet both said.
Oh, that's why the focus is on the NATO expansion in the AmeriKan MSM press!
In his speech, Mr. Bush urged the alliance to “maintain its resolve and finish the fight” in Afghanistan and to deploy more troops there to combat the Taleban, Al Qaeda and other threats around the world.
With the war in Afghanistan now in its seventh year, and 47,000 NATO troops already there, Mr. Bush used the speech and a later press conference to remind the alliance of the threat of terrorism to the entire West....
Like a broken fucking record, huh?
I've HEARD THAT TUNE, and I AM SICK and TIRED OF IT!
NO LONGER FOOLEYED, shitter!!!!!
