1.0 link 121236 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-heilbrunn/dick-cheney-travels-to-ge_b_121236.html The White House has announced that vice-president Dick Cheney will meet with Georgian President Mikhail Shaakashvili next week. The trip is sure to further stoke tensions with Russia and is a further sign of the influence that Cheney wields--the neoconservatives clustered around Cheney continue to have the upper hand in the Bush administration. If John McCain, whose chief foreign policy advisor Randy Schenuemann is a veteran neocon and has also been a lobbyist for Georgia, is elected president, he will...

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