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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow asserted Monday that George W. Bush, who exited office in 2009, is ultimately at fault for the current Ukrainian crisis.

Ms. Maddow told colleague Andrea Mitchell that Mr. Bush’s entire Middle East policy has led to several overseas conflicts, from the Iraq War to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine dispute.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/4/msnbc-rachel-maddow-bush-blame-ukraine/

The idiot ignores the fact that  Crimea is the only warm water port for Russia.

I read “Novorossiysk'' is not a  good location because it doesn't have the existing natural deep  depth that the  harbour Sevastopol has so it is used mostly for civilian shipping.
 
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"Novorossiysk is not an ideal location because it doesn't have the natural deep sea harbour Sevastopol has, and the commercial port operations limit the available space," says a foreign military official in Moscow. "But it is the only option if they are forced out of Sevastopol."

All eyes are now on Novorossiysk, a city on the Black Sea coast between Sochi and Sevastopol, which is already Russia's largest commercial port. Here, Moscow has been building naval infrastructure including a deep sea terminal.

But while the Russian Navy has started using the port for smaller naval vessels and a supply point, this work arguably is still at an embryonic stage. It will be very difficult to replace Sevastopol.
http://www.euro2day.gr/ftcom_en/article-ft-en/1188431/ukrainian-port-is-key-to-russias-naval-power.html









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I did it to  stir things up.  But Maddow probably believes Bush is to blame.

where Ms. Maddow said “Bush is to blame for the Ukraine crisis.”

       I’ll help you

      No , she did not say it in the video excerpt of her conversation with Andrea
Mitchell

       No, the Washington Times link you provided does not contain a quote of Ms. Maddow saying that.

       No, the Newsmax article the Wash Times quotes as authority does not say that – only the headline says it.

     I eagerly await your assistance as to the source of the "quote."

      Well, what did Ms. Maddow say that led the Newsmax headline writer to label the article this way?

Let’s go to the videotape. Best as I can tell, it comes from this statement:

“The decisions of our generation on national security are determined more than anything by what the George W. Bush administration did with that nine-year war in Iraq and, alongside it, a 13-year war in Afghanistan that’s still going on," she told Mitchell. "And the American people are against those wars."

“Those are the determinative constraints for our thinking about everything,” she continued, “from Crimea, to Syria, to what the overall size of the U.S. military is.”

        What Ms. Maddow actually said is not quite as punchy is it, Tim? At best, we have a vague and rather silly statement that the Bush wars are “determinative constraints for our thinking about everything….”  

 
Really, Tim, unlike you to fall for internet headline chicanery.

...and seeing his soul, so why wouldn't Putin think he could get over on Obama too?

Sent in the US marines to Russia's back yard?

Boy, you must have set your tinfoil hat on 'high' to receive this signal: "...talking points created by Foggy Bottom spin doctors designed to smeer a thin veneer of lipstick on the foreign policy debacles they frequently create in order to advance the military hegemony of NATO and the EU up to the Russian frontier. "

BTW, just how does one eat a "bubbe meise?"  You're a multi-lingual idjit.

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