Daily Show: Invading sovereign countries is fine...unless they're in Europe
By SilentPatriot Tuesday Aug 12, 2008 1:00pm
Jon Stewart recaps the current situation in Georgia (and the media's ridiculous coverage of it), and calls out President Bush for having the chutzpah to condemn Russia for invading and disrespecting Georgia's sovereignty -- because only reckless bully countries with no disregard for international standards do that kind of stuff.
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Stewart: "It'll be very interesting to see what the United States does here. Our invasion of Iraq somewhat hamstrings our options in Georgia, not just militarily, but also dimplomaticly, and I guess you would say, morally? Let's watch our UN Ambsassador Zalmay Khalilzad dance the delicate dance...
Khalilzad: We want to make sure our Russian colleagues understand that the days of overthrowing leaders by miulityary means...
Stewart: Careful, Khalilza. Steady...steady...
Khalilzad: The days of overthrowing leaders by military means in Europe, those days are gone...
Stewart: Yes! He did it! Those days are gone...in Europe. In the Middle East, it's morning in America.
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http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/11/up_to_2_000_killed_as
Russia doesn't play nice.
we are seeing but the initial stages of other nations taking a ride around the block on the back of the bush doctrine. nice legacy there georgie...
the bush doctrine is the 21c version of pandora's box. except this time its real.
Brilliant. Sadly, I can't seem to find 2008 episodes of Jon & Stephen to watch:/
Damn lazy torrenters!
The Russians are idiots....
If I was Putin, I would have claimed that Georgia had WMDs and that they were supporting Chechen militants.
Why can't they learn from us???
So the Daily Show writers are pulling my quotes off C&L to use on their show.
I'm flattered.
jebus.loves.me @ 4:
At least give Putin efficiency points for not bothering to create a web of lies.
Did anybody hear about the Arkansas Democratic Chair getting shot at the Little Rock HQ?
The level of blatant hypocrisy in this administration is just staggering...I mean...do they not hear themselves?
Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili on Wednesday called for John McCain to do more for Georgia in their response to the conflict in his country.
He said action is more important than rhetoric in the face of “brutal” and “deliberate” Russian violence.
He urged the United States to take the lead in installing an international peacekeeping force.
What dose he think Mclame is the President Mclame has no say it what the United States dose.
And if he thinks Mcsane will do him better than chimpy did News Flash Bush 1 Bush 2 Mcsame 3
If they didn't have a pipeline it would not even be news.
Bolton and Khalizad = neo-con, jingoistic, americo-centric tools. The UN will survive these ignorant courtiers.
Was Georgia war a neocon election ploy (read the article before deciding)?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/12/EDCD129NI4.DTL
Neo-classical secular humanist @ 10:
Definition of survival? The UN is sadly largely irrelevant nowadays...
Such a disgrace...and Putin laughs in Bush's face.
Anyone else notice that at the end of these things poor Stewart looks like he's getting more and more frustrated?
Krisken @ 14:
The poor man is aging in dog years...
Charles @ 5:
And delusional.
Seriously, the hypocrisy from the Bush Administration is so disgusting. I'm beyond sick of watching these fuckers embarrass our nation.
OReilly thinks this is the start of World War 3. If it is, we will get our ass kicked! But that is all hype. We wouldn't dare get entangled again. The cons know when to stop pushing the envelope!
[Deleted. What's that got to do with topic of the post Marge? Sitemonitor]
Charles @ 5:
Stewart used a phrase or line last nite that I've read here before ... can access the vid up here in Canukistan to re-watch it ...
science xtian @ 7:
Yep, we were talking about it toward the end of the previous thread.
pissed off patricia @ 20:
You were talking:P
Link?
Today when Perino was giving her briefing, one of the reporters said he had reports that there were US military in uniform in Georgia. Then he asked, was it true. She gave an around about answer about someone distributing the humanitarian supplies and who was best equipped to handle that process. She left the impression that indeed there are uniformed American military there.
Seems we were able to get these humanitarian supplies over there to Georgia faster than we were to get help to the victims of Katrina, right here in the US.
This kind of aid?
"Bush sends Rice to Georgia"
liberalNmoderation @ 8:
They hear themselves and they love the sound.
Make no mistake, these people are masters of propaganda. Given how stupid and misinformed most Americans are, it's all too easy.
Nikola @ 21:
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=70759&catid=238
Dennis @ 9:
What worries me is the fact that Saakashvili is so desperate right now that he will do or say anything to place any U.S. forces between him and the Russians in order to save his own skin. If that turns out to be a shooting match between the U.S. and Russia then so be it is probably his point of view.
pissed off patricia @ 22:
By whose authority is there ANYONE on the ground there? The President's? Arbitrarily? Did he consult Congress? Did they reconvene to pass a resolution for aid and assistance? Did he write them a note? Or does George Bush simply have the &**(^&*& keys to the Treasury and can do whatever the hell he wants with OUR money?!?
Do we no longer have ANY laws in this country?!?!?
Liberal AND Proud @ 27:
I dunno. Dana just said the plane had landed and the aid would be distributed.
It's so nice that the MSM is focusing on issues that really matter to Americans, such as the John Edwards affair. I honestly couldn't sleep at night not knowing the outcome of that situation...
Of course, the fact that I had to sleep in a box behind Wal-Mart because my job was outsourced to India because gas was too expensive and I ended up losing my house, or the fact that it's been unseasonably rainy of late probably didn't help my sleeping either.
OK, maybe it's not that bad... Yet... But when McCain is elected in November (thanks Diebold! thanks MSM!), we may want to start considering who makes the strongest most durable cardboard boxes for our future housing needs.
Liberal AND Proud @ 27:
Maybe some troops were sent there for stress relief with the Georgian soldiers being sent from Iraq?
pissed off patricia @ 22:
That is a very dangerous position to be in. With Saakashvili desperate to place the U.S. military between him and Russia I wouldn't put it past him to order some of remaining forces to shoot at those American military personnel and then try to pin it on the Russians.
pissed off patricia @ 29:
I'm not yellin' at you, POP. But this Administration doesn't even pay lip service to the law and how our supposed democracy is supposed to work.
Joe O. @ 31:
I wouldn't put it past Cheney to go over there and spray some buckshot himself.
Joe O. @ 31:
We get sucked into a shooting war...we will NEVER get out, and believe me...things will get out of control real fast.
I guess it wasn't going to be a domestic terrorist attack....
Bush is sending Condi and Gates over there. Now sit down for this one.....bush is delaying heading out to Crawford for a couple of days due to what is going on with Georgia and Russia. He was scheduled to head out for his two week vacation. tomorrow, but now it's on hold for a little while.
This pathetic country has ZERO credibility in the international community. It is in no position to dictate to anyone what is, or is not, acceptable.
So Chimpy, shut your mouth and go watch the Olympics on TV. For extra fun, you can even wave your little flag.
pissed off patricia @ 34:
Oh no! How will he manage??
I think the US should cool its heals right now and see how things play out. Not only can we not afford to have a dog in this fight, we can't even afford a dog.
jebus.loves.me @ 4:
At least the Russians are polite enough not to lie about what they are up to or their intentions. Everyone knows they're bastards, that's the contrast with the US. We just claim to be moral while lying through our teeth.
Give me an a$$**** who is upfront to a conniving two-faced schemer any day. At least you know the former is going to try to smack you around, the latter will do it when you turn your back.
pissed off patricia @ 38:
What U.S.? We're apparently a dictatorship now.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30931_Arkansas_Dem_Party_Chairma...
We are quite simply...The....Stupidest....People...On...The...Planet.
Thanks for continuing to post the pop-up versions of the Stewart and Colbert videos. The embedded versions are banned, by China, in Canada.
Wait, is P-O Patricia right? He's going on vacation again?
Liberal AND Proud @ 41:
Not yet we ain't...we wouldn't be able to talk about this shit if we were...
James in Colorado @ 40:
The Russians damn sure ain't idiots...not by a longshot.
pissed off patricia @ 39:
I agree. If the U.S. wants to restore some of its influence in the region, or at least in the eyes of those other breakaway republics, it must be part of the negotiating process between Russia and Georgia. Thus far, it is the EU with French President Sarkozy brokering the terms between the sides. Without a U.S. hand in the peace process, those other republics will have even more reason to doubt the U.S as a stable partner. However, the U.S. can't do it because it has little credibility already and nothing to back it up with.
DearEditor @ 44:
As much time as this man spends AWAY from work, we should consider when he works his vacations.
I want to make a new call for a US WITHOUT a President. This one has proven that not only do you not really need to be there to do the job, but you can be a complete moron too. We could save $400K a year (and for the rest of his life) by just removing the office now, same with the Veep (though in this case he was the REAL "President", but I still don't think we need official executives).
DearEditor @ 44:
Bush is going on a vacation some time soon.
liberalNmoderation @ 45:
The day is young.
pissed off patricia @ 49:
His brain has been on vacation for 7 years.
This Georgia/Russia conflagration is all part of Cheney's plan of distraction for a black ops in Iran. When the Georgian troops were hastily pulled from the hotbed of the Iraq/Iran border, U.S. troops were put in their place to patrol and protect the border. Not a good place for our people to be, IMHO. (:>
Liberal AND Proud @ 35:
Damn...this could get very very ugly...
Russia has a tough and rested military...ours are tough too, but worn out and stretched thin...and we'd be in their backyard...this is lunacy...plain and simple. Our troops have suffered enough...sending them over their right now would be wrong on every level....they need to come home, not get thrown into a fucking meat grinder!
pissed off patricia @ 36:
Christ, you'd think that cutting down some brush is more important.
Son of Satan Cheney is probably salivating in a bunker in some undisclosed location.
lucid fiction @ 54:
Yeah...he's thinking...."mmmmmm....caucasian children's blood...my favorite".
DearEditor @ 44:
Do you how exhausting it it 'raising the roof' at b-ball games, patting beach v-ballers on the... ummm ... splash zone and falling down stadium bleachers?
"Whew doggy ....tahm' ta clear me some brush"
Saakashvili has now truly lost all sense of reality. He definately comes from the Bush Administration rank and file:
Georgia Makes Believe It Triumphed over Russia
"Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili declared Georgia’s victory over Russia during a mass rally in Tbilisi yesterday. Kommersant correspondent Vladimir Solovyov watched the country, which was black-robed the day before, conjure up celebrations."
http://www.kommersant.com/p1010801/r_527/A_rally_in_Rustaveli_Avenue/
TGIF! It's not? Well it should be.
Liberal AND Proud @ 43:
It's even documented : http://www.amazon.com/Just-How-Stupid-Are-We/dp/0465077714
Liberal AND Proud @ 28:
Depends how rich you are.
1Watt @ 1:
Why are they waterboarding people ? OH no that's the US's bag........
Pot meet kettle. Mr. Preznit...your hypocrisy is showing...AGAIN.
Looks like the reactions from Russians about their military performance is mixed. But quite clear how the ChimpNChief was played a fool, again here:
http://www.upi.com/news/issueoftheday/2008/08/13/Bush_team_bungled_big_t...
Bismarck @ 61:
Let alone the US thinking it can reach around the world to try and influence actions in a completely unrelated country, just for it's own ends under the guise of "helping", much like helping in Iraq I suppose.
The US has less zero creditability now, and has done for a while, Bush is just ensuring that it is unrepairable.
Saakashvili is now blaming Russia for having "carpetbombed" Tskhinvili.
And demanding the Russians be held responsible for HIS war crimes.
And he's declared the the US Ministry of Defense is coming to Georgia to secure the seaport of Poti (which the Russians currently occupy and have been sinking Georgian military vessels) and to secure Tbilisi.
Saakashvili has repeatedly invoked the name of McCain - thanking him for his assistance and for stating that the American people stand behind the Georgians.
And everyone .. DO read the Robert Scheer article:
Georgia War: A Neocon Election Ploy?
So, they are calling it a failure of monumental proportions for the Bush Administration. That's saying alot.
Russian forces sink Georgian ships
MountainMan23 @ 63:
I don't know what to make of this person. I do find myself asking the same questions about him that I ask about Bush. Is he nuts? Is he brain damaged? Is he drunk? Is he high? Is he completely divorced from reality?
MSNBC: Georgia leader expects U.S. military help
Liberal AND Proud @ 64:
That the administration seems to be the ones always taking the blame, where as it's the whole country.
The sooner people there actually take some responsability and ownership of what is going on and stop blaming the rest of the world the better.
You are sinking fast and need to sort it out, "Blame Bush" isn't going to educate anyone, and as soon as he's out and the new puppet is in, it will be businesses as usual with the same american attitude trying to rape the world and piss of the people to get what ever it wants.
From US Embassy in Georgia:
U.S. Senate Delegation Led by Senator John McCain Sees “Tremendous Progress” in Georgia
McCain GOOD.
Russians BAD.
See .. it's really very simple.
Liberal AND Proud @ 65:
Russian forces sink Georgian ships
Evidently C&L's filters don't like quotes from Al Jazeera.
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What's up with that?
[I haven't the slightest idea-Sitemonitor]
Hilarious!
Russia has already won.
Russia won much more than a regional dispute with a former Soviet Satellite.
Russia won long before Georgian forces tried to recapture South Ossetia.
Russia won when the US wondered like a drunken sailor being shanghaied from a San Fransisco bar into Afghanistan.
That old KGB man was surely giggling in a place far deeper than the "soul" that the man-child leading the Americans thought he saw at every bit of the irony.
Hoist petards much?
The real world is very different from the one we thought we were living in.
What happens around the world when Team America, "protector" & enforcer, loses all moral authority?
We shall soon find out...
Given all the BS that has gone on over the past 40-50 years, all in the name of spreading freedom (and lining the pockets of the elite), my guess is that it will take a VERY long time to regain that authority and pull others who have been badly influenced back in line with internationational law.
I am now watching a John McCain press conference from Michigan regarding the Russia-Georgia confilct and he just said "In the 21st century, nations don't invade other nations."!
ROFL @ 74
Are these people truly that blind to their hypocrisy? Or are they just hoping the masses won't notice?
"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." Brilliant.
Liberal AND Proud @ 64:
Another little failure I noticed: the Bush administration has been asleep at the switch for the past 8 years. They were stunned that Russia could strike so fast. Maybe they still think the Russian army is the same rag-tag bunch it was when the Soviet empire fell apart, but it's a whole different animal today, lean and mean. This is supposed to be Condi's area of expertise. Hello?
Daily Show: Invading sovereign countries is fine…unless they’re in Europe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQrClo6H3Zo
Ahhh yes... Magnificent bastards all.... And that's just the ones who shill for the right... Imagine how good the rest might be.. If there was something like, oh I don't know... 'A FAIRNESS DOCTRINE' maybe in news reporting.. Hell, could there be a gold medal in all this someplace for snappy journalism????
Oh well, speaking of crass 3 a.m. moments.... And aren't they all pretty crass??? I had one of those last night... After I went potty, it was all better... World desaster, or maybe just bedsheet desaster... averted... And Captain Assslaps mouthpiece offers up pearls of wisdom???? Ehh, not really... More like phony platitudes that noone listens to anymore... Those days are gone..... in Europe.... and most everwhere else too nowadays... Huh imagine that..
Well cuz... That shit will happen when you piss and fretter away all your credibility doing exactly that, which you point accusing fingers at others for doing...And tsk tsk them to not do those 'crass' 3 a.m. type thingys you just spent five years doing... Turns out, do as I say, not as I do??.. Really doesn't work, WOW, what a revelation... WHO FREAKIN KNEW!!!!
Meanwhile, those Bushies suuuree are a wholesome bunch of smartypants ain't dey.... Reg-lar salts-o-the-earth....JD
Am I missing something here? It appears to me that Georgia was the aggressor. This whole ball got rolling when they moved back into South Ossetia, which has been practically sovereign for over 15 years. They played with fire and now they are getting burnt.
Russia has thrown down a gauntlet to the United States, challenging President George W Bush to "choose" between Washington's relationship with Georgia and its future ties with Moscow.
Bush Co. choose to develop a strong, peaceful, cooperative and prosperous relationship with Russia instead of tinkering around crowning tin horn despots and idiots they can sell multi millions worth of the latest U.S. Military gadgetry to in these tiny countries?
Right! Sure they will.
Sdubya @ 80:
http://tinyurl.com/64t54m
L.A. Confidential @ 81:
George Bush got owned. He's Putin's bitch now.
The Iraq war was the cornerstone upon which was laid the foundation for the 21st century. Fuck George W. Bush, and all who sailed with him.
Liberal AND Proud @ 83:
Yip no New York Bullhorn moment or Bulging Codpiece is going to change that anytime soon.
Liberal AND Proud @ 66:
That Nation article mentioned something completely lost so far in the "we need a new cold war" hysteria: Uncle Joe Stalin was himself Georgian & the Georgians seem to think this is a good thing w/museums & squares & such for the guy worse than Hitler (not "some one who was" or "a guy" but the definite article only individual in history worse than Hitler). If i was Russian i'd want that whole country decimated for only that reason, it's not right, reasonable or even defensible, but i can name one country that has recently destroyed two other countries out of a misguided sense of revenge.
Karmas a Bitch!
Vlad to Georgie... 'Who's your daddy now beeootch?'....JD
That idiot running Georgia ever heard of the Internet?
http://tinyurl.com/6j9cox
Saakashvili "The Idiot"
Bush really knows how to choose them doesn't he?
I mean how smart does one need to be when your sitting right next door to a Major Military Superpower to realize . . . If I go in under cover and start shooting Russian citizens and peace keepers in the dark of night there could be MAJOR trouble.
Noooooooooooo thats to hard to figure out! Hey Boosh and the Americans will come to my rescue! They promised to put food on our families! Make the Pie Higher!
I had to turn off my radio after listening to Condi, sweet Condi express her moral outrage with Russia. It's unbelievable first, that she or anyone connected to the Bush Crook crowd lecture Russia, but even worse is that the media in attendance isn't shouting out the obvious and calling them on it.
LA Confidential,
Good article, it just further reinforced the obvious that our MSM is not acknowledging.
Liberal AND Proud @ 28:
Yes, we have laws.
Unfortunately, breaking them is no longer a crime.
naschkatze Hussein @ 76:
"In Europe," was pretty good, too.
But my favorite--bush shall forever after be known as, "Captain Asslap."
Sad that all the really good comedy comes in the form of the day's hard news...or, um, that the news shows up in the middle of the really good comedy...or whatever.
Just go shopping...
Clevenative @ 74:
Totally speculating out my ass, here, folks (as usual)...but those of you who are cheering for a Wesley Clark vice-presidency got a big boost today.
I was at the taping of TDS last night. The only thing they filmed and didn't air was a clip of Khalilzad getting into it on the U.N. floor where someone called him on the hypocracy of the US condemming Russia. Stewart shows a quick clip of them and goes "Ok, he's on thin ice here. If he's gonna pull this off, he's really gonna have to work for it. Let's see if he can thread this needle." and then they showed the first clip that had actually aired.
Here's why these two can't solve anything:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/1762672231_e98ed6998b.jpg
Invasion of Grenada. Equivalence?
nice footage - too bad IT CAN'T BE SEEN OUTSIDE THE USA.
Bruce H. @ 17:
Kind of. The problem is that their envelope is way bigger than the sane one your probably thinking of. Their objective is well outside the sane zone and completely catastrophic. The NeoCons are merely seeding their purported October suprise here.
So, Ms. Speaker, do you see why impeaching these maniacs NOW is kind of vital? If you wait any longer, there won't be a clock left to run out, or your job, or your country....
5f3yakfitguy @ 24:
Exactly. It's not hard to imagine Cheney sitting in his comfy chair at his undisclosed location just laughing his ass off every time The Chimp or one his flunkies open their mouths.
DONT WORRY.... according to White On Rice... we are going to "KICK RUSSIA OUT OF THE COOL KIDS CLUB" they will be banished from the tree house, and not allowed to go on the family picnic !!!!!
In other news.... we are sending our remaining troop..... Private Parts.... to Georgia to patrol their border
What is really staggering is the stupidity of the American people who cannot see the blatant hypocrisy of supporting our invasion of Iraq while criticizing Russia's invasion of Georgia.
And thinking that Georgia is IN ASIA jusst make really too ironic, doesn´t it?
Like:
A small war is the best way... to teach American people the wrong geography.
The Bush administration for once doesn´t lie: those days are really gone In Europe (since Serbia / KOsovo, actually), but not in Asia, be it Asia Minor or middle East...
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