Just glimpsing at this article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_russia_georgia

It made me think: "Wow! We already surrendered to Russia without firing a single shot in the opening salvo!" lol

Personally, I think Bush screwed us over by having us stay in Iraq for far longer than what would’ve normally been allowed.

He said that we won the war in 2003 by declaring on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln: "Major combat operations in Iraq are OVER."

And we should’ve *left*.

But we spent the next six years chasing our tails and spinning our wheels–and not getting *anywhere* anytime fast.

Leaving us…what?

CRIPPLED WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO RESPOND TO OTHER THREATS OVERSEAS–TERRORISTS WITHSTANDING OF COURSE.

Given how Russia walked all over Georgia with cleats–it made me realize just how damaging the Iraq war had been to our own military forces: We lack the capability to respond to other threats which operate in a real-time environment–rather than the imaginary ones that operate in the back of Darth Cheney’s mind.

Is it a wonder why Russia just laughed off our efforts to tell them to back off?

We’re no longer potent in the international theater.

Thanks to the Iraq war–we’ve been *neutered* of our positive standing and powerful presence in the global community.

Thoughts?

so I turned on yahoo news to be greeted by an article title that read "Polish president dies in Russian plane crash"… nice play on words there! let’s make Russia look like a bad guy for some random thing, then we’ll scare everyone with communism and tell that all planes will fall from the sky if the healtcare reform passes! "russia bad, russia eat brain, russia bad communism, must be afraid russia!"…

but this brings up my question… who is sick and tired of media trying to brainwash its audience? whatever happened to ethical and unbiased coverage of NEWS? do people even remember what news are anymore? seems like every story there days is 5% news, and 95% punditry… and I’m not just blaming FOX or anything… all the channels these days, liberal or conservative, seem to have very little news and a whole lots of spinning… who is tired of this?!!!

All of the advertisements, articles, billboards, etc. feature a conventional looking white couple who are adopting or fostering a child of another race (usually of African or Asian descent). Why is this the standard look of adoption?

Why not show an African American couple with a caucasian baby? Or an Asian couple with an Hispanic child? Even the pics of gay adoptive couples are typically white…how about a photo of a gay black couple going to an orphanage in Russia to pick up their adoptee?