Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, who has been mentioned as a possible vice presidential running mate for White House hopeful Barack Obama, said on Saturday he would visit Georgia this weekend.
Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, said he had been asked to go to Georgia by President Mikheil Saakashvili for talks over the conflict with Russia.
"I am going to Georgia this weekend to get the facts first-hand and to show my support for Georgia's people and its democratically-elected government," said Biden in a statement.
I hope when Biden gets down there he can get the straight facts as to just what the Georgians were thinking when they attacked South Ossetia and if they were encouraged to do so.
I find it humorous that while McCain sends his two lap dog Senators, Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham, to the area to show that he is on top of the situation that the Georgian President requests the presence of Democrat Joe Biden to actually help solve the dilemma.
And does this mean the Saakashvili is less then impressed with what Condi Rice was able to achieve with her visit?
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Your poll on Georgia was missing a fairly important option:
ReplyDeleteRussia has been trying for years to be the leading control of energy resources in the region, and Georgia has been increasingly important to the US, Israel, and EU the last few years thanks to the construction of the BTC pipeline. Israel & the US have been arming Georgia for a while now. Georgian minorities have been denied full citizenship for a while, and have been getting Russian passports.
So... what do you think really happened?