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Cheney told Georgians that the US is committed to protecting that pipeline and for Georgia to join NATO. Medvedev made a statement how he doesn’t care about being in the G8 nor what NATO does. I wonder how far we are before the US and Russia get into a post-Cold War skirmish.

Last week, Moscow reacted angrily to the announced deal with Poland, saying that the move would worsen relations with the United States. A senior Russian defense official, Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, suggested that Poland was making itself a target by agreeing to serve as host for the anti-missile system. Such an action “cannot go unpunished,” he said.

This is obviously a direct result of Russia’s recent invasion of Russia.

The fears about a resurgent Russia were codified to some degree in what Polish and American officials characterized as unusual aspects of the final deal, including an obligation on the United States to defend Poland in case of an attack with greater speed than required under NATO.

I believe this is part of the pressure President Bush is putting on Russia to pull out of Georgia and conform to the way nations should behave in this century. It’s kind of a shot across the bow, so to speak. Poland sees this as vital in maintaining their sovereignty and to protect themselves against the expanding Russian influence. They should work to admit the other former Soviet vassal states into NATO as soon as they can to be a deterrent to Russia as well.

Reuters UK is reporting that the DNA tests have come back less than promising with one test coming back inconclusive and the other coming back as 96% opossum.

If it were all true, why not just open up all the information to everyone instead of all this secrecy. It’s likely just a hoax.

Reuters reports:

In Moscow, the Russian General Staff told a daily briefing that Russian troops had begun their pullout from the conflict zone, though there was no independent verification of this.

“I can say for certain when the New Year will come but I cannot give an exact date for the withdrawal of our troops from the conflict area yet,” said Col.-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn. “I can only say that we will not be leaving as fast as we came”.

Georgia accused the Kremlin’s forces of blowing up its weapons and ammunition dumps near the western town of Senaki — modernized to NATO standards — as they withdrew.

“They are destroying everything and then pulling out of these places,” Interior Ministry official Shota Utiashvili said. “If they call this a pullout, then I do not understand the meaning of the word.”

They are walking a fine line trying to comply just enough to keep Washington and the EU off their backs so they can further destroy Georgia’s military and help topple their government.

Reuters is further reporting:

In a show of defiance, Medvedev said: “If anyone thinks that they can kill our citizens and escape unpunished, we will never allow this.

“If anyone tries this again, we will come out with a crushing response. We have all the necessary resources, political, economic and military,” a stern-looking Medvedev told World War Two veterans in the Russian city of Kursk.

Apparently Medvedev is creating a precedence that if they want to attack a state, all they’d have to do is declare part of their people Russian citizens and they’ll be able to attack with impunity without any further justification to the international community. I have little doubt that Russia can find pockets of people in any of its former vassal states to give citizenship to and then further its influence in their affairs through threat of attack. Ukraine and the Baltic States know that they’re next on the hit list and so they’ve offered immediate support for Georgia.

The white majority in the U.S. will be outnumbered by Americans of other races by 2042, eight years sooner than previously projected by the Census Bureau.

Ummm. So?

On the bright side, maybe white people will be eligible for affirmative action.

Meanwhile President Bush has sent in troops for a humanitarian mission as to show Russia that the US can still defend its allies in Europe and to challenge Russia’s pledge to allow humanitarian aid be sent into Georgia. Bush has also threatened Russia stating that it is risking its place in “the diplomatic, political, economic and security structures of the 21st century” possibly referring its place among the G8 nations. The US denies that its troops will be defending any of Georgia’s assets but will defend themselves and their assets if the need arises.

Russia has set up a dangerous game of chicken and we’ll see who blinks. Russia has already committed so it’ll be up to us to see if we’re willing to see this through.

Fox News Reports that four men claim to have found a body of a Big Foot creature and that they’d reveal the evidence on Friday. It’ll be interesting if it’s true or just an elaborate hoax.