Vindicated? Sarah Palin Mocked In 2008 For Warning Russia Could Invade Ukraine

[RonPaulFanInGA]

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/...May-Invade-Ukraine-if-Obama-Elected-President

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his "indecision" and "moral equivalence" may encourage Russia's Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.

Palin said then:

"After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next."

For those comments, she was mocked by the high-brow Foreign Policy magazine and its editor Blake Hounshell, who now is one of the editors of Politico magazine.

In light of recent events in Ukraine and concerns that Russia is getting its troops ready to cross the border into its neighboring nation, nobody seems to be laughing at or dismissing those comments now.

 

[AngryCanadian]

Russia has every Right to defend her People in Ukraine how would you feel if the fascists or Neo Nazis take over several areas in your city?
Would you bow down and accept them?

The war mongers on BraitBart comment section are idiots they should have voted for John McCain.

 

[XNavyNuke]

Russia has every Right to defend her People in Ukraine how would you feel if the fascists or Neo Nazis take over several areas in your city?

Rhymes with Konrad Heinlein circa 1930.

XNN

 

[XNavyNuke]

Original blog post since Breitbart chose not to link to it.

Hxxp://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2008/10/22/russia_might_invade_ukraine_if_obama_wins_palin_warns

Lets not forget the the Glorious Leader has more leeway in engaging Putin now that its after the election.

XNN

 

[RJB]

Well duh, she could like see it from her backyard and stuff.

More likely her handlers told her to say it.

 

[osan]

Russia has every Right to defend her People in Ukraine

I can't quite tell whether this is a joke, though it appears you are serious. "Her" people? What are you talking about? "Russia" isn't a mother defending her children. It is a psychological construct with which some gangsters operate in accord. Like any other "nation", it is a script for a grand play that is often made up as the actors go along. It's not real. The people are real. The tanks are real. The butchery and all manner of criminal stupidity are real. But "Russia" is not, save in one's mind. Therefore, I am making you aware of the fundamental cognitive blunder that has lead you to make this profoundly misguided statement.

I will also note that "Russia" is not defending "her People". If you knew the least thing about the last 100 years of their history, you would know that the Russians are, statistically speaking, the most savage people on the planet second only to the Chinese, both of whom make the eternally reviled Hitler look like a choir boy. And if you will retort that they are not savages in the face of their having butchered at least 60 millions of their own people in a mere 3 decades, then no such thing exists anywhere in the universe. "Russia" is doing what "Russia" has done in the not-so-distant past: arrogating to itself that to which it has no just claim. In the 1917 revolution they took the Ukraine by force as they did with all the other territories. They starved millions of Ukranians to death shortly thereafter when Stalin took the reins. They took Poland, Hungary, and so forth by military force immediately after WWII.

"Russia" transplanted "her People" into the Ukraine against the wishes of the people who held rightful historical claims to that place, and they did so with great and murderous brutality. Now you claim the defense to which "Russia" is purportedly rushing as being somehow legitimate. This has got to be a joke and you should say so even if you have to lie because anything otherwise is worthy of naught but scorn and ridicule, serving only to assassinate yourself in the eyes of those whose brains are being made use of as more than shriveled hat racks.

Politically speaking, "Russia" is a homicidal maniac with but the Chinese to surpass it.

how would you feel if the fascists or Neo Nazis take over several areas in your city?

The Ukraine is not a city and it is not in "Russia". It is an area to which "Russia" holds less than zero legitimate claim. I say less than zero because "Russia" is in huge debt to the Ukranian people on many accounts, the murder of millions among them. A more criminal government than that of "Russia" does not exist on the planet. The NAZIs, when compared with the brutish "Russia" were like lovely and beautiful and saintly men. Russia literally robbed Ukraine of food and other resources such that the Ukranians perished horribly and en-masse.

When the "Soviet Union" mysteriously vanished in 1989, which is to say the directors of the stage play called "Soviet Union" decided the script would not be continued and the actors would no longer be forced to act the parts of "Soviet comrade", the ethnic Russians in Ukraine had a choice before them: remain Russian by withdrawing to "Russia" or become Ukranian by staying put. This is a simple and obvious truth. Those who chose to remain are no longer Russian in terms of political affiliation. They are de facto Ukranians, their Russian ethnicity notwithstanding. If you disagree with this, do not complain to me because I did not make up these idiotic rules, nor did I conceive of the dangerously idiotic notion of the "nation state", nor do I approve of any of it. But if we are to be saddled with this bullshit, then what is good for the goose is damned well going to be good for the gander. On this I will compromise nothing.

Having chosen to remain, what Ukranians do to/with their own people is as much an internal affair of "Ukraine" as the disposition of Russians by "Russia" is "Russia's". Again, these are not my rules, but at least in such conversations as this I will tolerate no hypocritical bullshit as that which is implied here by your statement, inadvertent as it may possibly be. Clarity is virtue and I aim to be clear where others are carelessly less-than.

And what of the Ukranians in Russian territory? "Ukraine" holds the equal right to march into "Russia" and slaughter Russians in defense of "her People". Where does this bullshit brand of "thinking" lead? It should take you no time to figure that out, assuming an IQ above the single digits, which I am confident is the case here.

"Russia", along with the rest of the "nations" needs to STFU, GTFO, and start behaving "itself" as an adult rather than as a dangerously pathological child who, on a bad tear, has managed to get into dad's liquor cabinet and the gun safe while the grown-ups were away.

Would you bow down and accept them?

If "Russia" landed troops on the shores of Suriname, I would do nothing. Not my business. I might not agree with the action, but would leave "Russia" to its devices. Were they to do the same in Canada, it might be different because it could be reasonably taken as a clear and present danger to us, were the Russians to secure a beachead in our own backyards. That is a purely strategic calculation and has nothing to do with ethnic, or any other issues. If "Russia" went into Suriname to cleanse it of expat Americans, I would do nothing. If you don't want to be cleansed, leave.

The war mongers on BraitBart comment section are idiots they should have voted for John McCain.

They may be warmongers, but how are you any better in this apparently serious defense of Russian aggression against the sovereign nation of "Ukraine"? Your claim of "defense" is non-credible on its face. The only thing they are defending is the script.

 

[cajuncocoa]

Russia has every Right to defend her People in Ukraine how would you feel if the fascists or Neo Nazis take over several areas in your city?
Would you bow down and accept them?

The war mongers on BraitBart comment section are idiots they should have voted for John McCain.

Should have? I'd bet the house that they ​did.

 

[matt0611]

Well duh, she could like see it from her backyard and stuff.

More likely her handlers told her to say it.

You know she never actually said that about her backyard right?

 

[RJB]

You know she never actually said that about her backyard right?

So? She's still a ditz with puppets strings, right?


ETA: I was more of being a smartass rather than trying to directly quote her. The media did distort what she said.

 

[matt0611]

So? She's still a ditz with puppets strings, right?

Meh, I guess, it still amuses me that people still use that quote as if she actually said it though. If she's such a ditz surely we could at least correctly quote her. Shrug.

 

[RJB]

Meh, I guess, it still amuses me that people still use that quote as if she actually said it though. If she's such a ditz surely we could at least correctly quote her. Shrug.

I didn't quote her, I was making a smart ass comment. Get yourself a cup of coffee and shake off the morning grouchiness.

 

[RJB]

Matt, you are right. I shouldn't laugh at a quotation she didn't really say, we should be fearful about what she is implying. With troops in 130+ countries and engaged in conflicts, my smart assed comment takes away from the seriousness of what these people are trying to do to us.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

More likely her handlers told her to say it.

That would be Bill Kristol.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Vindicated? Sarah Palin Mocked In 2008 For Warning Russia Could Invade Ukraine

She is well connected in divione matters and God's plans.

She will be vindicated if Putin's invasions became a task from God.





She was vindicated when US invaded Iraq:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ypVSYoEKA


G-d's hand works mysteriously.

 

[angelatc]

Matt, you are right. I shouldn't laugh at a quotation she didn't really say, we should be fearful about what she is implying. With troops in 130+ countries and engaged in conflicts, my smart assed comment takes away from the seriousness of what these people are trying to do to us.

I am a Palin fan, but hearing that she would actually prefer that we send American troops over there to keep Russia from getting involved in what could turn out to be a Ukrainian civil war doesn't give me warm fuzzies.

 

[angelatc]

She is well connected in divione matters and God's plans.

She will be vindicated if Putin's invasions became a task from God.





She was vindicated when US invaded Iraq:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2ypVSYoEKA


G-d's hand works mysteriously.

That video is leftist propaganda. It is absolutely and indisputedly edited. The original is also on YouTube. She did not say that Iraq was a task from God. She said that they should pray that Iraq was a task from God.

It is absolutely discouraging to see anybody in this movement touting that as real. That is the depths to which the left will sink, and how wonderful that we are helping them.

 

[klamath]

The borders change, people suffer and die all else stays the same.

 

[AngryCanadian]

I can't quite tell whether this is a joke, though it appears you are serious. "Her" people? What are you talking about? "Russia" isn't a mother defending her children. It is a psychological construct with which some gangsters operate in accord. Like any other "nation", it is a script for a grand play that is often made up as the actors go along. It's not real. The people are real. The tanks are real. The butchery and all manner of criminal stupidity are real. But "Russia" is not, save in one's mind. Therefore, I am making you aware of the fundamental cognitive blunder that has lead you to make this profoundly misguided statement.

I will also note that "Russia" is not defending "her People". If you knew the least thing about the last 100 years of their history, you would know that the Russians are, statistically speaking, the most savage people on the planet second only to the Chinese, both of whom make the eternally reviled Hitler look like a choir boy. And if you will retort that they are not savages in the face of their having butchered at least 60 millions of their own people in a mere 3 decades, then no such thing exists anywhere in the universe. "Russia" is doing what "Russia" has done in the not-so-distant past: arrogating to itself that to which it has no just claim. In the 1917 revolution they took the Ukraine by force as they did with all the other territories. They starved millions of Ukranians to death shortly thereafter when Stalin took the reins. They took Poland, Hungary, and so forth by military force immediately after WWII.

"Russia" transplanted "her People" into the Ukraine against the wishes of the people who held rightful historical claims to that place, and they did so with great and murderous brutality. Now you claim the defense to which "Russia" is purportedly rushing as being somehow legitimate. This has got to be a joke and you should say so even if you have to lie because anything otherwise is worthy of naught but scorn and ridicule, serving only to assassinate yourself in the eyes of those whose brains are being made use of as more than shriveled hat racks.

Politically speaking, "Russia" is a homicidal maniac with but the Chinese to surpass it.




The Ukraine is not a city and it is not in "Russia". It is an area to which "Russia" holds less than zero legitimate claim. I say less than zero because "Russia" is in huge debt to the Ukranian people on many accounts, the murder of millions among them. A more criminal government than that of "Russia" does not exist on the planet. The NAZIs, when compared with the brutish "Russia" were like lovely and beautiful and saintly men. Russia literally robbed Ukraine of food and other resources such that the Ukranians perished horribly and en-masse.

When the "Soviet Union" mysteriously vanished in 1989, which is to say the directors of the stage play called "Soviet Union" decided the script would not be continued and the actors would no longer be forced to act the parts of "Soviet comrade", the ethnic Russians in Ukraine had a choice before them: remain Russian by withdrawing to "Russia" or become Ukranian by staying put. This is a simple and obvious truth. Those who chose to remain are no longer Russian in terms of political affiliation. They are de facto Ukranians, their Russian ethnicity notwithstanding. If you disagree with this, do not complain to me because I did not make up these idiotic rules, nor did I conceive of the dangerously idiotic notion of the "nation state", nor do I approve of any of it. But if we are to be saddled with this bullshit, then what is good for the goose is damned well going to be good for the gander. On this I will compromise nothing.

Having chosen to remain, what Ukranians do to/with their own people is as much an internal affair of "Ukraine" as the disposition of Russians by "Russia" is "Russia's". Again, these are not my rules, but at least in such conversations as this I will tolerate no hypocritical bullshit as that which is implied here by your statement, inadvertent as it may possibly be. Clarity is virtue and I aim to be clear where others are carelessly less-than.

And what of the Ukranians in Russian territory? "Ukraine" holds the equal right to march into "Russia" and slaughter Russians in defense of "her People". Where does this bullshit brand of "thinking" lead? It should take you no time to figure that out, assuming an IQ above the single digits, which I am confident is the case here.

"Russia", along with the rest of the "nations" needs to STFU, GTFO, and start behaving "itself" as an adult rather than as a dangerously pathological child who, on a bad tear, has managed to get into dad's liquor cabinet and the gun safe while the grown-ups were away.



If "Russia" landed troops on the shores of Suriname, I would do nothing. Not my business. I might not agree with the action, but would leave "Russia" to its devices. Were they to do the same in Canada, it might be different because it could be reasonably taken as a clear and present danger to us, were the Russians to secure a beachead in our own backyards. That is a purely strategic calculation and has nothing to do with ethnic, or any other issues. If "Russia" went into Suriname to cleanse it of expat Americans, I would do nothing. If you don't want to be cleansed, leave.



They may be warmongers, but how are you any better in this apparently serious defense of Russian aggression against the sovereign nation of "Ukraine"? Your claim of "defense" is non-credible on its face. The only thing they are defending is the script.

They may be warmongers, but how are you any better in this apparently serious defense of Russian aggression against the sovereign nation of "Ukraine"? Your claim of "defense" is non-credible on its face. The only thing they are defending is the script

As usual i see more NeoCon Stances in War Mongering in Your Post here's my reply to you simply.

According to you this is how America always responds and ironic you called Russia Aggression look at ur own history before you judge Russia's past with Ukarine.

 

[AngryCanadian]

That video is leftist propaganda. It is absolutely and indisputedly edited. The original is also on YouTube. She did not say that Iraq was a task from God. She said that they should pray that Iraq was a task from God.

It is absolutely discouraging to see anybody in this movement touting that as real. That is the depths to which the left will sink, and how wonderful that we are helping them.

Nice to see and spot on here NeoCons pretending to libertarians.

That video is leftist propaganda

Like with McCain the majority of the Republicans will still defend him as much as they defend Sarah Palin. And no that video isn't propaganda.


Palin: Iraq war 'a task that is from God'

"I miss the days when pastors delivered sermons and politicians delivered political speeches," he said. "The United States is increasingly diverse religiously. The job of a president is to unify all those different people and bring them together around policy goals, not to act as a kind of national pastor and bring people to God."

The section of the church's Web site where videos of past sermons were posted was shut down Wednesday, and a message was posted saying that the site "was never intended to handle the traffic it has received in the last few days."

I am sure God doesn't mind how Christians are treated by Sarah buddies in the Gulf Regime states to.

 

[AngryCanadian]

I can't quite tell whether this is a joke, though it appears you are serious. "Her" people? What are you talking about? "Russia" isn't a mother defending her children. It is a psychological construct with which some gangsters operate in accord. Like any other "nation", it is a script for a grand play that is often made up as the actors go along. It's not real. The people are real. The tanks are real. The butchery and all manner of criminal stupidity are real. But "Russia" is not, save in one's mind. Therefore, I am making you aware of the fundamental cognitive blunder that has lead you to make this profoundly misguided statement.

I will also note that "Russia" is not defending "her People". If you knew the least thing about the last 100 years of their history, you would know that the Russians are, statistically speaking, the most savage people on the planet second only to the Chinese, both of whom make the eternally reviled Hitler look like a choir boy. And if you will retort that they are not savages in the face of their having butchered at least 60 millions of their own people in a mere 3 decades, then no such thing exists anywhere in the universe. "Russia" is doing what "Russia" has done in the not-so-distant past: arrogating to itself that to which it has no just claim. In the 1917 revolution they took the Ukraine by force as they did with all the other territories. They starved millions of Ukranians to death shortly thereafter when Stalin took the reins. They took Poland, Hungary, and so forth by military force immediately after WWII.

"Russia" transplanted "her People" into the Ukraine against the wishes of the people who held rightful historical claims to that place, and they did so with great and murderous brutality. Now you claim the defense to which "Russia" is purportedly rushing as being somehow legitimate. This has got to be a joke and you should say so even if you have to lie because anything otherwise is worthy of naught but scorn and ridicule, serving only to assassinate yourself in the eyes of those whose brains are being made use of as more than shriveled hat racks.

Politically speaking, "Russia" is a homicidal maniac with but the Chinese to surpass it.




The Ukraine is not a city and it is not in "Russia". It is an area to which "Russia" holds less than zero legitimate claim. I say less than zero because "Russia" is in huge debt to the Ukranian people on many accounts, the murder of millions among them. A more criminal government than that of "Russia" does not exist on the planet. The NAZIs, when compared with the brutish "Russia" were like lovely and beautiful and saintly men. Russia literally robbed Ukraine of food and other resources such that the Ukranians perished horribly and en-masse.

When the "Soviet Union" mysteriously vanished in 1989, which is to say the directors of the stage play called "Soviet Union" decided the script would not be continued and the actors would no longer be forced to act the parts of "Soviet comrade", the ethnic Russians in Ukraine had a choice before them: remain Russian by withdrawing to "Russia" or become Ukranian by staying put. This is a simple and obvious truth. Those who chose to remain are no longer Russian in terms of political affiliation. They are de facto Ukranians, their Russian ethnicity notwithstanding. If you disagree with this, do not complain to me because I did not make up these idiotic rules, nor did I conceive of the dangerously idiotic notion of the "nation state", nor do I approve of any of it. But if we are to be saddled with this bullshit, then what is good for the goose is damned well going to be good for the gander. On this I will compromise nothing.

Having chosen to remain, what Ukranians do to/with their own people is as much an internal affair of "Ukraine" as the disposition of Russians by "Russia" is "Russia's". Again, these are not my rules, but at least in such conversations as this I will tolerate no hypocritical bullshit as that which is implied here by your statement, inadvertent as it may possibly be. Clarity is virtue and I aim to be clear where others are carelessly less-than.

And what of the Ukranians in Russian territory? "Ukraine" holds the equal right to march into "Russia" and slaughter Russians in defense of "her People". Where does this bullshit brand of "thinking" lead? It should take you no time to figure that out, assuming an IQ above the single digits, which I am confident is the case here.

"Russia", along with the rest of the "nations" needs to STFU, GTFO, and start behaving "itself" as an adult rather than as a dangerously pathological child who, on a bad tear, has managed to get into dad's liquor cabinet and the gun safe while the grown-ups were away.



If "Russia" landed troops on the shores of Suriname, I would do nothing. Not my business. I might not agree with the action, but would leave "Russia" to its devices. Were they to do the same in Canada, it might be different because it could be reasonably taken as a clear and present danger to us, were the Russians to secure a beachead in our own backyards. That is a purely strategic calculation and has nothing to do with ethnic, or any other issues. If "Russia" went into Suriname to cleanse it of expat Americans, I would do nothing. If you don't want to be cleansed, leave.



They may be warmongers, but how are you any better in this apparently serious defense of Russian aggression against the sovereign nation of "Ukraine"? Your claim of "defense" is non-credible on its face. The only thing they are defending is the script.

Politically speaking, "America" is a homicidal maniac with but the Saudis & Gulf Regime states to surpass it.

There you go i fixed it for you NeoCon.

Russian aggression against the sovereign nation of "Ukraine"? Your claim of "defense" is non-credible on its face. The only thing they are defending is the script.

If you had stopped watching the news on TV whatever its FOX or CNN or what not. And go look at an Map of Ukraine and see whats quite strategical about it, you will see the reasons for Russia actions.


And you want to know why? the majority of the people in Crimea and east, south support Russia as well but also there is another reason. Russia has a naval base in Ukraine as they do in Syria.

Without it this would be the total encirclement of Russia. Blocking her citizens access and while NATO would be stealing russia's resources sucking Russia dry.

Here's a simple map to help you out.