The US vice-president, Dick Cheney, yesterday issued a direct challenge to Moscow's sway over Georgia, pledging Washington's support for its eventual membership of Nato, while denouncing Russia's "illegitimate" invasion. "Georgia will be in our alliance," Cheney said after talks with President Mikheil Saakashvili. WSWS: CHENEY IN GEORGIA: GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY IN PURSUIT OF OIL. Regnum: Cheney chief Russophobia-inciting ringleader around Russia — Kosachev. RIA Novosti: Russia says Cheney encourages 'Georgian aggression'. Global Research: Russia, Europe and USA: Fundamental Geopolitics. Bzangy Groink: US Hypocrisy Reaches Critical Mass: "US Vice-President Dick Cheney has condemned what he called Russia’s “illegitimate” attempt to change Georgia’s borders last month. Mr Cheney added that Russia’s actions during the recent conflict with Georgia had cast doubt on its reliability as an international partner.". This is the same Dick Cheney that said that the butchering of over one million Iraqis by illegally invading US forces was, in his words, a “major success.” Was Cheney so worried about borders when his country invaded a sovereign, non-aggressor nation, committing a war crime?
