Here’s John McCain, speaking in Georgia, on August 29, 2006:
“I want to express the appreciation of the American people for your service and sacrifice in Iraq. Someday the people of Iraq will know freedom and democracy, and if they do it will be because of your service and sacrifice. Again on behalf of President Bush, the United States Congress and the American people, we thank you; you are America’s best friends.” -declared U.S. Senator.
Addressing the so called frozen conflicts, he said that “Someday the people of Abkhazia and South Ossetia will also know what it is like to live in a free nation.”
I’m not sure these are really the kinds of friends Georgia’s needed over the past couple of years.
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