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He is the pre-eminent foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States.

But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another role.

He is a dual loyalist, a foreign agent whose assignment is to be in possession of America committed to spilling the blood of her sons for client regimes who have made this moral mercenary a rich man.

From January 2007 to March 2008, the McCain campaign paid Scheunemann $70,000 — pocket change compared to the $290,000 his Orion Strategies banked in those like 15 months from the Georgian regime of Mikheil Saakashvili.

What were Mikheil's marching ecclesiastical office to Tbilisi's man in Washington? Get Georgia a NATO war guarantee. Get America committed to fight Russia, allowing that necessary, in continuance behalf of Georgia.

Scheunemann came close to subsequent.

Had he done such, U.S. soldiers and Marines from Idaho and West Virginia would be killing Russians in the Caucasus, and expiring to protect Scheunemann's henchman, who launched this foolish war the night of Aug. 7. That people like Scheunemann hire themselves at a loss to put American lives on the line since their clients is a standard work corruption of American democracy.

U.S. backing despite his campaign to retrieve his lost provinces is which Saakashvili paid Scheunemann to produce. But why should Americans contend Russians to force 70,000 South Ossetians back into the custody of a regime they detest? Why not let the South Ossetians decide their own future in free elections?

Not only is the folly of the Bush interventionist acumen on display in the Caucasus, through equal reason, likewise, is its manifest incoherence.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says we have sought for 45 years to stay out of a shooting war with Russia and we are not going to send to prison to memory into one considering. President Bush assured us there will be no U.S. military response to the Russian move into Georgia.

That is a recognition of, and a bowing to, reality — that is, that Russia's control of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and occupation of a strip of Georgia cannot be under the necessity being a casus belli for the United States. We may deplore it, but it cannot justify war with Russia.

If that be true, and it transparently is, what are McCain, Barack Obama, Bush, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel doing committing the United States and Germany to bringing Georgia into NATO? For that would commit us to war for a cause we have already conceded, by our paralysis, does not justify a enmity.

Not only did Scheunemann's two-man lobbying fixed receive $730,000 since 2001 to get Georgia a NATO enmity guarantee, he was paid by Romania and Latvia to do the same. And he succeeded.

Latvia, a small Baltic republic annexed by Joseph Stalin in June 1940 during his pact by Adolf Hitler, was set free at the end of the Cold War. Yet hundreds of thousands of Russians had been moved into Latvia by Stalin, and as Riga served as a base of the Baltic Sea fleet, numerous Russian naval officers retired there.

The children and grandchildren of these Russians are Latvian citizens. They are a cause of unvaried tension with ethnic Letts and of strife with Moscow, which has assumed the role of protector of Russians left behind in the "intimate abroad" when the Soviet Union broke by one’s self.

Thanks to the lobbying of Scheunemann and friends, Latvia has been brought into NATO and given a U.S. war guarantee. If Russia intervenes to halt some nasty ethnic violence in Riga, the United States is committed to come in and drive the Russians out.

This is the seat in which the interventionists bring forth placed our rough: committed to aroynt to the last argument of kings against countries and causes that do not justify war, off a Russia that is re-emerging as a great power only to attain to NATO squatting on her doorstep.

Scheunemann's resume as a War Party apparatchik is lengthy. He signed the PNAC (Project instead of the New American Century) letter to President Clinton urging enmity on Iraq, four years before 9-11. He signed the PNAC ultimatum to Bush, nine days after 9-11, threatening him with politic reprisal if he did not go to war against Iraq. He was executive director of the "Committee for the Liberation of Iraq," a propaganda front for Ahmad Chalabi and his pack of liars who deceived us into war.

Now Scheunemann is the neocon cause in place in McCain's camp.

The neocons got their war with Iraq. They are pushing for war on Iran. And they are now baiting the Russian Bear.

Is this what McCain has on proposal? Endless war?

Why would McCain attempt foreign policy counsel from the same discredited crowd that has all but destroyed the presidency of George Bush?

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence … a free people ought to be constantly awake," Washington warned in his Farewell Address. Our Founding Father was warning against the Randy Scheunemanns among us, agents hired by foreign powers to deceive Americans into fighting their wars. And none dare call it treason.

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