<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/13f5dab6-fe38-45c7-ae3e-41fbcc554e0d/00FDC331-8D1C-49A5-B24A-9EE7FF7434ED/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/world/europe/23biden.html?th&emc=th#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/world/europe/23biden.html?th&emc=th#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/world/europe/23biden.html?th&emc=th#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> Biden Hears Georgia’s Plea for Western Protection </NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/world/europe/23biden.html?th&emc=th#"><P>TBILISI, <A title="More news and information about Georgia." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/georgia/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">Georgia</A> — Tbilisi greeted Vice President <A title="More articles about Joseph R. Biden Jr." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/joseph_r_jr_biden/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Joseph R. Biden Jr.</A> as a hero on Wednesday, and President <A title="More articles about Mikhail Saakashvili." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/mikhail_saakashvili/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Mikheil Saakashvili</A> made a passionate plea to the West to help defend his country against Russian forces in its separatist territories, at one point comparing Georgia’s refugee crisis to Darfur’s. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/world/europe/23biden.html?th&emc=th#"><P>Mr. Biden’s task here and in Ukraine has been to thread a needle: to reassure post-Soviet allies of Washington’s unchanging loyalty without stoking a confrontation with Russia. In a morning speech in Kiev, Mr. Biden wove together his themes subtly, combining soaring praise of Ukraine’s young democracy with a note of serious rebuke over its leaders’ infighting. He was expected to do the same in Tbilisi on Thursday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/world/europe/23biden.html?th&emc=th#">“Their plan to have a big war and take over Tbilisi has been spoiled by Biden’s visit,” he said. To the emphatic agreement of his young companions, Mr. Saakashvili said Russia would never prevail in Georgia. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/00FDC331-8D1C-49A5-B24A-9EE7FF7434ED/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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