McCain Republican Convention speech: He wants to get us nuked by Russia

John McCain gave the speech of his life tonight. His old stiffness was gone.

Usually in his speeches, he’s like a Navy aviator at sea, which he was, bored playing games. But like such an aviator when he gets in his plane and takes off for the bombing run, he was ready for the big time.

In his case, tonight his speech was well-written, well-delivered, well received — and insane.

You have to look closely at what policians say. Here’s the key part:

Russia’s leaders, rich with oil wealth and corrupt with power, have rejected democratic ideals and the obligations of a responsible power. They invaded a small, democratic neighbor to gain more control over the world’s oil supply, intimidate other neighbors, and further their ambitions of reassembling the Russian empire. And the brave people of Georgia need our solidarity and our prayers. (Cheers, applause.)

As president, I’ll work to establish good relations with Russia so that we need not fear a return of the Cold War. But we can’t turn a blind eye to aggression and international lawlessness that threatens the peace and stability of the world and the security of the American people.

What a pack of lies.  It was not Russia that was the aggressor, but Georgia. Here’s the proof. The War Nerd just posted some videos Georgia’s troops took as they invaded South Ossetia. Watch those videos. (I can’t post them here, so go to that link. The 2 videos only last a couple of minutes.)

They show the Georgian stormtroopers in their tanks and jeeps rampaging through South Ossetia, shooting up everything that moves. They show the buildings that were destroyed by earlier phases of the Georgian anschluss. All this happened before the Russians arrived and kicked out the Georgian invaders.

So, who was the aggressor? The Georgians, clearly.

As the War Nerd writes:

Those Georgians may try to come off the poor victims but I dunno, guys, there’s a lot of blownup [stuff] in every shot I’ve seen of Tskhinvali, and those “Yee-haws” from the gunner kinda make it sound like the Georgians were having themselves a real party, Quantrill style.

During the American Civil War, Quantrill, according to Wikipedia…

directed much of his effort against Unionist civilians, attempting to drive them from of the territory where he operated….

Some of his activities, most notably the massacre of some 200 men and boys, as young as seven years old, in Lawrence, Kansas in August 1863, appalled the Confederate authorities. In the winter of 1862-63, when Quantrill led his men behind Confederate lines into Texas, their often lawless presence proved an embarrassment to the Confederate command. Yet the generals appreciated his effectiveness against Union forces, which never gained the upper hand over Quantrill.

McCain: Owned by Georgia

So, why did McCain say it was the Russians who were the aggressors? Because, as I wrote earlier, McCain’s top foreign policy aide, Randy Scheunemann, is a paid foreign lobbyist for Georgia. That means McCain, too, is in Georgia’s pocket.

So much for the “Maverick.” What he really is, as I’ve also been saying, is nuts. He’s crazy, bonkers, nutso.

Russia isn’t some dippy little country that can be kicked around, like Afghanistan or Pakistan or Iraq or Somalia. They have about 10,000 nukes, about the same as us.

Hey, don’t think I’m some bleeding-heart liberal, because I’m not. I signed up for the U.S. Army in 1977, and served as a Russian linguist 1978-1982, because I hated communism. But I also served in West Germany and listened, as a 98G-RU Russian voice intercept operator, as the Soviets targeted us with nukes.

The way to deal with nuclear powers, especially the only equivalent one, Russia, is with common sense, not insanity. The only reason for conflict with Russia is if countries like Georgia buy our politicians, like McCain.

And Russia, let us remember, is no longer communist. Their top income tax rate is 13%, compared to 35% in the USA (plus state income taxes, such as the 10.3% top state rate in California). Nowadays, Russia is more capitalist than we are. As Karl Marx insisted, the mark of a communist country is a high progressive income tax.

Russia’s expanding wealth is only partly due to oil wealth, contrary to McCain’s jibes. Mainly it’s due to low taxes — which McCain says he favors. Doesn’t he do any thinking on his own?

The return of the Manichees

There’s no need for conflict. But McCain wants conflict. Like his Neocon advisers, he has a deep-lying Manichean impulse — us vs. them, absolute good vs. absolute evil, good god vs. bad god, good spirits vs. bad material earth — that leads to Armageddon.

Then we’ll all be dead.

McCain showed tonight why he should not be president.