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Originally Posted by Vegas Vic
That would be the Russian invasion of Georgia. At first, Obama (in his customary parsing and equivocating manner) tried to draw a moral equivalency between Russia and Georgia. Then, he released a statement that the U.N. Security Council would be the appropriate vehicle to address the crisis. Then, when one of his 300 foreign policy advisors informed him that Russia had veto power in the Security Council, Obama finally released a statement agreeing with McCain's initial position.
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FactCheck.org: GOP Convention Spin, Part II
This was checked out as well. Obama and McCain had very similar initial statements on the conflict and neither of them said anything about the veto power. Giuliani tried to spin it like you did but it's just not true.