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Cheney backs membership in NATO for Georgia
By Steven Lee Myers
TBILISI, Georgia: Vice President Dick Cheney flew here on Thursday to deliver a forceful American pledge to rebuild Georgia and its economy, to preserve its sovereignty and its territory and to bring it into the NATO alliance in defiance of Russia.
Cheney spent only four and a half hours in Georgia, but the visit included a strong rebuke to Russia's behavior and a highly symbolic visit to American troops unloading humanitarian supplies at the airport here within sight of an airplane factory that Russian bombs had damaged.
He arrived a day after the United States pledged $1 billion to help Georgia recover from its defeat by Russia's armed forces, which continue to control two breakaway regions, as well as buffer zones in Georgia.
Standing beside President Mikheil Saakashvili, Cheney said that the United States had strongly supported Georgia since protests in 2003 ushered a democratic government to power and that it would continue to do so despite Russia's proclamations that Saakashvili's government was illegitimate.
"I assured the president as well of my country's strong commitment to Georgia's territorial integrity," Cheney said after meeting with Saakashvili, without aides, for more than an hour, twice the scheduled time. "Georgia has that right, just as it has the right to build stronger ties to friends in Europe and across the Atlantic."
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I agree that Georgia has the right to territorial integrity. But someone please tell me what an American taxpayer struggling to support a family, while having income removed from her paychecks to help pay for this billion dollar expenditure will receive in return.
Also, why should our country commit to another nation's sovereignty which might lead to more war expenditures in the future? I have nothing against Georgia, but we aren't responsible for it or any other nation. We are only responsible for this one.
But the problem (in some circles) with non-intervention is that the military-industrial complex, currently being well taken care of by our VP, cannot make as much profit from peace as war. Non-intervention won't advance the agenda of those who have taken over our government - the agenda to amass more money and more power for the few. The way they have decided to do that is to control the media and elections, incite fear in the populace, reduce civil rights in the name of citizens' protection, and increase the expenditures and intervention overseas. Presto - more money and power - but not for those who are bankrolling it.
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