Joe Biden on Georgia War against Russia

There has been a lot of talk about change lately. And after eight years of Republican rule, it's definitely time for some.

I will vote for Barack Obama and the Democrats because I know that they are our only real chance to move this country back on the right path.

But change doesn't just mean kicking this dumb ass out of the white house. if we change presidents without changing policies, our country will keep slipping away from us. We have to hold the new people we elect accountable, and make sure they move away from the failed militaristic policies of the last eight years.

That's why Joe Biden's recent tough talk about the war in Georgia is disturbing. It just doesn't sound like the change I am hoping for.

But Mr. Biden has done more than just talk tough. He has offered Georgia a billion of our tax dollars. With huge deficits here at home, change should mean that we think very carefully about offering any far-away nation our tax money. But the facts about Georgia's current ruler give us good reason to flatly reject giving aid to the country for as long as he remains president.

The fact is that Sakashvilli is a protege of George W. Bush, and like Bush, he is a poor leader with little regard for the rights of his people. He came to power in 2003, with help from elements in the Bush Administration. And he came to power not through a free election, but by storming his nations parliament and ejecting the country's elected leader. Bush toasted the occupied parliament building as "A Beacon of Liberty".

After taking power, Sakashvilli returned the favor of Bush's support by sending 2,000 of his countrymen into the quagmire that is the Iraq War.

And though he secured his power in a bloodless coup, Sakashvilli was not shy about aggressively deploying riot police and special forces soldiers against demonstrations that broke out over allegations of corruption in his own government.

Over the years, the Bush-Sakashvilli bond has grown strong. During a 2005 visit by Bush to Georgia, Sakashvilli honored Bush by naming a major thoroughfare in the capital "George W. Bush Avenue."

Though Georgia is a small, poor country with just four million people, Sakashvilli chooses to spend a billion dollars every year on weaponry and the services of American and Isreali military contractors. Unknown amounts of the georgian people's money is spent by Sakashvilli on buying influence with American politicians. Even republican candidate John McCain, careful to follow in Bush's footsteps, has Sakashvilli lobbyists among his top advisers.

But most tragically, the recent war has shown just how misguided the ruler of georgia is. Everyone agrees that Sakashvilli started this latest war. And though they bury it in the end of their articles, every media outlet has reported that the fighting started when Sakashvilli ordered a huge attack on a small city defended by just a handful of peacekeepers. As a result, thousands of civilians died, and his own military, into which he had poured so much of his small country's resources, was destroyed.

The presidency of Sakashvilli is just another aspect of the failed policies of the last eight years of Republican rule. Sakashvilli is little more than an incompetent Bush appointee who has not proved himself either a capable leader, or a worthy ally. He does not deserve our support.

I am voting for Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the hopes that they can free us from the myriad of foreign entanglements we have inheirited from the Bush Administration. I expect that Mr. Obama will live up to his promise of change. And I hope that Joe Biden will come to understand that sponsoring George W. Bush's puppet regime in Georgia, well...

And we as Americans should know that if we don't get the Change we want this time, we should change them again the next time.

Thank You For Listening.

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