- Who is Randy Scheunemann?
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- He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John
McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew
Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United
States.
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- But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another
role.
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- He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose
assignment is to get America committed to spilling the blood of her
sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich
man.
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- From January 2007 to March 2008, the McCain campaign
paid Scheunemann $70,000 pocket change compared to the $290,000
his Orion Strategies banked in those same 15 months from the Georgian
regime of Mikheil Saakashvili.
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- What were Mikheil's marching orders to Tbilisi's man
in Washington? Get Georgia a NATO war guarantee. Get America committed
to fight Russia, if necessary, on behalf of Georgia.
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- Scheunemann came close to succeeding.
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- Had he done so, U.S. soldiers and Marines from Idaho
and West Virginia would be killing Russians in the Caucasus, and dying
to protect Scheunemann's client, who launched this idiotic war the
night of Aug. 7. That people like Scheunemann hire themselves out to
put American lives on the line for their clients is a classic
corruption of American democracy.
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- U.S. backing for his campaign to retrieve his lost
provinces is what Saakashvili paid Scheunemann to produce. But why
should Americans fight Russians to force 70,000 South Ossetians back
into the custody of a regime they detest? Why not let the South
Ossetians decide their own future in free elections?
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- Not only is the folly of the Bush interventionist
policy on display in the Caucasus, so, too, is its manifest
incoherence.
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- Defense Secretary Robert Gates says we have sought
for 45 years to stay out of a shooting war with Russia and we are not
going to get into one now. President Bush assured us there will be no
U.S. military response to the Russian move into Georgia.
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- That is a recognition of, and a bowing to, reality
namely, that Russia's control of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and
occupation of a strip of Georgia cannot be a casus belli for the
United States. We may deplore it, but it cannot justify war with
Russia.
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- If that be true, and it transparently is, what are
McCain, Barack Obama, Bush, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel doing
committing the United States and Germany to bringing Georgia into
NATO? For that would commit us to war for a cause we have already
conceded, by our paralysis, does not justify a war.
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- Not only did Scheunemann's two-man lobbying firm
receive $730,000 since 2001 to get Georgia a NATO war guarantee, he
was paid by Romania and Latvia to do the same. And he
succeeded.
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- Latvia, a tiny Baltic republic annexed by Joseph
Stalin in June 1940 during his pact with Adolf Hitler, was set free at
the end of the Cold War. Yet hundreds of thousands of Russians had
been moved into Latvia by Stalin, and as Riga served as a base of the
Baltic Sea fleet, many Russian naval officers retired there.
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- The children and grandchildren of these Russians are
Latvian citizens. They are a cause of constant tension with ethnic
Letts and of strife with Moscow, which has assumed the role of
protector of Russians left behind in the "near abroad" when the Soviet
Union broke apart.
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- Thanks to the lobbying of Scheunemann and friends,
Latvia has been brought into NATO and given a U.S. war guarantee. If
Russia intervenes to halt some nasty ethnic violence in Riga, the
United States is committed to come in and drive the Russians
out.
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- This is the situation in which the interventionists
have placed our country: committed to go to war for countries and
causes that do not justify war, against a Russia that is re-emerging
as a great power only to find NATO squatting on her doorstep.
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- Scheunemann's resume as a War Party apparatchik is
lengthy. He signed the PNAC (Project for the New American Century)
letter to President Clinton urging war on Iraq, four years before
9/11. He signed the PNAC ultimatum to Bush, nine days after 9/11,
threatening him with political reprisal if he did not go to war
against Iraq. He was executive director of the "Committee for the
Liberation of Iraq," a propaganda front for Ahmad Chalabi and his pack
of liars who deceived us into war.
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- Now Scheunemann is the neocon agent in place in
McCain's camp.
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- The neocons got their war with Iraq. They are
pushing for war on Iran. And they are now baiting the Russian
Bear.
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- Is this what McCain has on offer? Endless
war?
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- Why would McCain seek foreign policy counsel from
the same discredited crowd that has all but destroyed the presidency
of George Bush?
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- "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence
... a free people ought to be constantly awake," Washington warned in
his Farewell Address. Our Founding Father was warning against the
Randy Scheunemanns among us, agents hired by foreign powers to deceive
Americans into fighting their wars. And none dare call it
treason.
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