<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/91f1cc19-547f-4fd0-84a0-aeaefe83fba4/FBA25D1B-2DD0-4679-AA48-EF771C32FC96/" 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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_us" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_us" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_us"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/brand/SIG=br2v03;_ylt=AvYTWr2DUwC9iKt6UC3F8gFbbBAF/*http://www.ap.org"><IMG height="27" width="106" border="0" alt="AP" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/ap_logo_106.png" /></A> </DIV> Cheney slams Russia over war against Georgia </H1></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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_us"><P> TBILISI, Georgia - Demonstrating Washington's commitment to beleaguered Georgia, U.S. <SPAN id="lw_1220525309_0" class="yshortcuts">Vice President Dick Cheney</SPAN> flew in Thursday and condemned <SPAN id="lw_1220525309_1" class="yshortcuts">Russia</SPAN> for what he called an "illegitimate, unilateral attempt" to redraw Georgia's borders by force. </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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_us"><P>Speaking during a closely watched trip to this U.S.-allied <SPAN id="lw_1220525309_2" class="yshortcuts">South Caucasus</SPAN> nation, Cheney also assured Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili that the United States was "fully committed" to his country's efforts to join <SPAN id="lw_1220525309_3" class="yshortcuts">NATO</SPAN>.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_us"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/167074DC-61EC-40A3-B3F8-D7B8502EF40B" alt="Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, right, and US Vice President Dick Cheney seen during their news conference on in Tbilisi, Georgia, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney condemned Russia on Thursday for what he called an 'illegitimate, unilateral attempt' to change Georgia's borders by force. Speaking during a closely watched trip to this U.S.-allied South Caucasus nation, Cheney also assured Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili that the United States was 'fully com" /></div></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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_us"><P>"Georgia will be in our alliance," Cheney said.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_us"><P>One of the U.S. administration's most hawkish figures and a longtime critic of Russia, Cheney was visiting three ex-Soviet republics that are nervous about Moscow's intentions — Georgia, <SPAN id="lw_1220525309_4" class="yshortcuts">Azerbaijan</SPAN> and Ukraine.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080904/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_us"><P>His trip signaled to <SPAN id="lw_1220525309_5" class="yshortcuts">Moscow</SPAN> that the United States will continue to cultivate close ties with Georgia and its neighbors even after Russia showed it was not afraid to use its military against countries along its border.</P></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/FBA25D1B-2DD0-4679-AA48-EF771C32FC96/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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