Bush, shooting from the hip, fires a blank

Posted By Blake Hounshell Friday, August 15, 2008 - 9:44 AM Share

President Bush Wednesday promised that U.S. naval forces would deliver humanitarian aid to war-torn Georgia before his administration had received approval from Turkey, which controls naval access to the Black Sea, or the Pentagon had planned a seaborne operation, U.S. officials said Thursday.

"The president was writing checks to the Georgians without knowing what he had in the bank," a senior administration official told McClatchy's Jonathan Landay. That would seem to be the larger theme here.

EXPLORE:CAUCASUS, BUSH ADMINISTRATION, FOREIGN AID, GEORGIA, MILITARY

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