{"id":193819,"date":"2008-11-14T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/14\/how-george-w-bush-saved-mikheil-saakashvili-from-being-hung-by-the-balls\/"},"modified":"2008-11-14T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T01:52:00","slug":"how-george-w-bush-saved-mikheil-saakashvili-from-being-hung-by-the-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/14\/how-george-w-bush-saved-mikheil-saakashvili-from-being-hung-by-the-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"How George W. Bush Saved Mikheil Saakashvili  from Being Hung by the Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img522.imageshack.us\/img522\/1001\/250pxdohzg5lz0.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/>We now have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/europe\/article5147422.ece\">following repors from the Times of London<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on August 12, Mr Sarkozy told Mr Putin that the world would not accept the overthrow of Georgia\u2019s Government. According to Mr Levitte, the Russian seemed unconcerned by international reaction. \u201cI am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls,\u201d Mr Putin declared.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sarkozy thought he had misheard. \u201cHang him?\u201d \u2014 he asked. \u201cWhy not?\u201d Mr Putin replied. \u201cThe Americans hanged Saddam Hussein.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sarkozy, using the familiar tu, tried to reason with him: \u201cYes but do you want to end up like [President] Bush?\u201d Mr Putin was briefly lost for words, then said: \u201cAh \u2014 you have scored a point there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush has become the Bogeyman for the world.<\/p>\n<p>He is now Homer Simpson, the stupid pathetic avatar of all that is stupid and pathetic, without the charm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have the following repors from the Times of London: With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on August 12, Mr Sarkozy told Mr Putin that the world would not accept the overthrow of Georgia\u2019s Government. According to Mr Levitte, the Russian seemed unconcerned by international reaction. \u201cI am going to hang Saakashvili &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[964,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-relations","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}