Hmmmm.... when you say something is "Micky Mouse" in a noncomplimentary way, it's referring to something being stupid or dumb, or too simple.

I think there was some sarcasm behind what Moonliner was saying, but don't want to speak for him.

Some days I do feel I need a translator....

Tenigma is still learning the ways of the LoT ;)

I was waiting for this theory to come out....I didn't expect the source would be Russia, though.

Link to the whole story

What they won't say is that the real reason they attacked Georgia was to distract their population away from the Olympics....it wasn't so long ago when the question wasn't if they would finish 1st in the medal count but by how much.....now they are struggling to finish in 4th;)

I don't see that as much more of a fiction than, say, telling the Iraqi citizenry that we were there to liberate them and protect them from the terrorist threats that are trying to turn their country into a hive of evil.

Anyone (or government) that is willing to make the decision to begin a war is fully capable of lying. Once you've decided that you're so right that you give the thumbs up to action that is going to kill people who are not currently threatening your life to achieve your goal, lying is hardly going to keep you up at night. It's the reason that I automatically take credibility points away from anyone who advocates unprovoked acts of military aggression.

I suppose the definition of provocation varies from individual to individual, case by case. But to put credibility in this being plot by Dick Cheney to provoke to Russians is....well, unwarranted. Theories always abound, evidence is often lacking. This is spoken as someone who has his share of conspiracy theories, though.

I don't lend it credibility, no more so than I lend credibility to the flimsy propaganda stories our government wove to justify our presence in Iraq.

Unless you expect me to be shocked that a military aggressor is resorting to propaganda?

Yeah....which is why I said provocation is defined differently.