Thread: America eyes Georgia as base to launch attack on Iran

America eyes up Georgia as a base to launch attack on Iran


January 15, 2009
by Marcus Papadopoulos
tribunemagazine.co.uk


GEORGIA’S President Mikheil Saakashvili is involved in high level negotiations with members of the United States government on the construction of American military bases in the South Caucasian country, according to a representative of a Georgian opposition party.

Nestan Kirtadze, of the Georgian Labour Party, said last week that President Saakashvili is offering Washington thousands of hectares of land rent free on which to build military bases.

Mrs Kirtadze appealed to American planners and policy-makers not to turn Georgia into a theatre for confrontation between the two superpowers – a reference to US-Russia

rivalry in the former Soviet republic.

The accusation made by Mrs Kirtadze will fuel suspicions in the Kremlin that the US is intent on encircling Russia. It will also provide an opportunity for Russian hawks to argue to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that the Russian army should have toppled the government of President Saakashivili during the war in South Ossetia last year, and that something still needs to be done about the staunchly pro-Western Georgian leader.

Discussions concerning American bases in Georgia will also bring to the surface again the possibility of Washington launching pre-emptive air strikes against Iran.

Last year Russia’s envoy to Nato, Dmitri Rogozin, argued that the US wants to use the strategically-placed Caucasus country as a base for military operations against the Islamic republic.

Focus will soon shift to incoming US President Barack Obama regarding Washington’s stance on Georgia and Iran. He has repeatedly called for accession to Nato for Ukraine and Georgia, referring to Russia as a “21st century superpowerâ€

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO! But we have to realize that Georgia is negotiating with the current US government, which will not be over until noon on Tuesday. Obama will not clean up this mess he has been given by starting another challenge anywhere around the world where the world is pretty ticked off at us for losing jobs so we can't buy their shoddy, cheap imports. The GWB gang is being a whole lot more viscious that the White House staff during Clinton removing every "W" on their keyboards before Bushy took over. That was a protest, while these few things could lead to a global altercation.