Throughout his failed 2008 presidential run, Republican John McCain campaigned on a theme of "Country First." As it turns out, that country was Georgia. After his bellicose August 2008 declaration to Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili that "today we are all Georgians," Saakashvili returned the favor Monday by decorating McCain with a "National Hero of Georgia" order. Unmentioned in news accounts, of course, is that McCain's top foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann lobbied for the Georgian government, which an fall 2009 EU report concluded was in large measure responsible for starting the conflict with Russia.
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