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John McCain: â€œWe are all Georgians todayâ€

13 August 2008 09:25 (UTC +04:00)

Washingtonâ€“APA. Republican presidential candidate John McCain continued hammering Russia on Tuesday for its invasion of U.S.-allied Georgia, telling a cheering audience that he had spoken again with the tiny Caucasus countryâ€™s president to assure him of Americaâ€™s moral support, APA reports quoting AFP
The longtime Arizona senator, who had adopted an increasingly tough line against Moscow well before the crisis in Georgia, told a town meeting in Pennsylvania that he had spoken with Mikhail Saakashvili, President of the former Soviet republic, to assure him that "Today we are all Georgians."
McCain said Moscow is using "violence against Georgia to send a signal" to "any country that chooses to associate with the West." Russian leaders, he said, must realize they risk "the benefits they enjoy from being part of the civilized world. Russia demonstrated that it did not share principles and values of G-8 and therefore it should be debarred from the organizationâ€, he said.