McCain's hyperbole this week downright scary

I've got plenty, and I do mean plenty, to say on the Russian/Georgia conflict when I have more time later on this evening. However, for now, I couldn't resist commenting on this absolutely ridiculous, absurd assertion made by McCain a few days ago.

So, let's get this straight, the conflict in Georgia is the most serious international crisis since the end of the Cold War? Hmmkay - so I guess the Rwandan genocide, the famine and slaughter in Somalia, the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, not to mention the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan don't qualify in McCain's mind. (I guess if he wasn't running for president when those things took place, they didn't qualify as a crisis in his mind.)

Seriously, this guy is either unwilling or unable to remember more than three months in the past, or he has absolutely no problem with telling blatant lies and wild distortions to the American people. You decide, but it's one or the other.

If anything, the War in Iraq definitely qualifies - we have created one of the biggest refugee crises in the world, to the tune of more than four million Iraqis, many of whom have left the country altogether.