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Bear-Baiting in Georgia: It's the Oil, Stupid

By John Grooms
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) | August 27, 2008
Not one American in ten could find Georgia on a map, but all of a sudden that country's "freedom-loving" government is of great importance to our national security. Bullshit. The situation in Georgia, pure and simple, is about access to oil and our contemptuous treatment of Russia in the post-communist era.
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Tags: oil, Georgia, foreign policy, international, Russia, war & peace

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