Even as Putin rushed home Saturday to manage his military, the sports-loving Bush refused to let the fighting completely ruin his trip as the first sitting American president to attend an Olympics on foreign soil. He gave pep talks to U.S. athletes, posed for photos with them - which he later called the best part of the trip - and then was their biggest fan.

Despite a cease fire called for by Georgia,

Russian Troops have opened a second front in Georgia.
9k Russia troops have entered from Abkhazia,

and taken two towns.

They have also entered Georgia and have taken the town of Gori. Taking control of the East West Highway,

the Georgian port on the Black sea

and cutting Georgia in half.
They are continuing to bomb the Georgian capital and other cities inside Georgia proper.

Mean while,
Poland has fired their chief negotiator with the US concerning the missile defense shield Bush has been after.

Do you reckon they have gotten the message from Russia that they wont tolerate it?

The US has evacuated American personnel from Georgia. WE have also made careful scheduling with Russia about our Planes returning the Georgian Peace keepers back home from Iraq! Trying to ensure Russian aircraft wont fire on them.

Putin, has called Bush a hypocrite. Referring to Georgia's leader and Saddam Hussein, saying if Bush can attack Iraq and hand Saddam then he should not attempt to protect the Georgian President!

Looks like Russia is going to take back Georgia.

and Ukraine has threatened not to allow the Russia Black Sea fleet to come back to their Ports where they are based!

What else,
Oh Oil prices are going back up!!

His past and continued foreign policies and the manner in which he handled them is enough for me.

Bush went into office with Zero foreign policy experience. There are many leaders of this country who have started out in that boat.
To cover up for their weakness a leader picks others to sit on his cabinet who do have experience in that arena.
That's okay and part of being a leader is to pick key people to fill key positions, but the buck always stops at their desk. They must accept the responsibility and all that goes with it. That is a major contributor to what kind of a leader they are.

Bush's leadership decision to pick Cheney as VP, and then to follow Cheney's self interest and Rumsfeld's aggressive advice is what has caused this mess now!
Instead of accepting his mistakes, and handling them with positive leadership, Bush has consistently lied and used excuses of coincidence to cover up for his bad leadership decision.

He chose to follow their advice against all his available expert military leaders advice in Iraq, and has done the same with the available foreign policy advisers advice. The buck stops at the Oval desk, and Bush is guilty of being one of the worst leaders this country has ever known.

Benefit of doubt for 72% of this country has ran out. For me it ran out a long time ago. I was probably one of the first to see his weaknesses as a leader. Actually calling them weaknesses is not the correct phrase.

What they are, is a premeditated plan by the NEOCONS to unravel our Constitution as needed, and lead this country in the direction they chose fit to best achieve their self-interests. Bush is a puppet on a string, and his replacement, if they get their way will be John McCain!

You may not be smart enough to realize the truth in that, but slowly over these last 8 years, 72% of the population has figured it out. You go ahead and give him benefit of the doubt, most Americans are way past that point. I take it you've never heard the saying, Fool me once shame on You, Fool me twice shame on Me.

Putin flew home Saturday to handle the Russian war. Bush stayed yucking it up with Olympians, only flying home today. Day 5 of the outbreak of hostilities in Georgia. Condi, was on vacation somewhere and has made phone calls, but that's the extent of the Bush Administration's response to the situation their policies have caused in Georgia.

In a statement in the Rose Garden, Bush said there was an apparent attempt by Russia to unseat the pro-Western Saakashvili. He said further Russian action would conflict with Russian assurance its actions were meant to restore peace in the pro-Russian separatist areas.

So we see he is very aware of what has been happening while he yucked it up in Beijing for 5 days. Doubt????

Putin criticized the United States for viewing Georgia as the victim instead of the aggressor, and for airlifting Georgian troops back home from Iraq on Sunday.

"Of course, Saddam Hussein ought to have been hanged for destroying several Shiite villages," Putin said in Moscow. "And the incumbent Georgian leaders who razed ten Ossetian villages at once, who ran elderly people and children with tanks, who burned civilian alive in their sheds — these leaders must be taken under protection."

Putin makes a fool out of Bush, and Bush's Presidency has made a fool out of America.
Doubt??

You go ahead, Im all doubted out!

Did you see him yucking it up with May and Walsh hiker?

He even slapped one of them on the butt!!

All the while his Allie Georgia is being attacked!

Well, for the record, the small of the back.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/bush-olympics.html

Anyway, I don't consider sand vollyball a real Olympic sport.

Come on!

At least they could get some hotter women!

You dont think Kerry Walsh is hot??

Anyway, the Shrub scolding Russia for invading
South Ossetia is like a toothless lion roaring
at a hyena.

The hyena has the upper hand in that situation!

And Condi is still working on her tan!

Ironic isn't it?

I find Bush's response here eerily similar to his response about the attack on 9-11, when he sat reading even as the attack was taking place.
I guess when you are no more than a puppet head for a more powerful NEOCON organization your decisions aren't important or needing of an immediate response!