Are You Serious?

John McCain on the crisis in Georgia:
My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression.
So the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990 (and the subsequent Gulf War), the break-up of Yugoslavia and the civil wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the genocides in Rwanda and the Sudan, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something... oh, right, the invasion of Iraq by America in 2003... those were not as serious?

And as Evelyn reminded me in the comments, there was that event on September 11, 2001. It was in all the papers.

This man wants to be president? Of what?

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