>Georgia, it seems, is hell bent on keeping "its" territory, regardless >of what the people in those regions want. That's not right. The U.S. >definitely pushed to bring Georgia under the umbrella of Europe and >NATO, no question there. it's an ugly situation, as have been so many >regional situations in the post-Cold War era.
Remind me, whom did US support when Serbia was defending its integrity? >Now let's consider the Georgian perspective. The Soviets subjugated >everyone under communism for close to 70 years. They punished >attempted independence movements of the sort you are talking about in Georgia ASKED to join Russia hundreds years before "Soviet Era" to avoid its occupation by Ottoman Empire. >Putin-led (ex-KGB) Russian government... If a key word here "ex-KGB", count ex-CIA people in post-war White House. >interests of the poor South Ossetians, but then they bomb the capital >of Georgia and cut the country in half with a massive ground assault, >everyone should be highly skeptical of Russian motives, however >worthwhile their stated goals. Human Rights Watch Organization (not "ex-KGB") issued today a report about the content of Western mass media related to South Ossetia crisis. They called it "worst propaganda action ever", which even cannot be compared with Soviet-time publications in the Soviet press. The truth is that Tbilisi was NOT bombed, Georgia is NOT split in parts, and the aggressor IS Georgia. Georgian Interior minister put today the total of Georgian casualties below 100 people. Georgian commandos committed horrible atrocities at Olympic Games Opening night destroying the entire capital of South Ossetia (there is no a single building remain standing) and killing at least 1,500 civilians using heavy artillery, tanks and "Grad" systems, and executing non-Georgian population in villages around Tzkhinvali. Almost a half of S Ossetia population (30K out of 70K) crossed the border with North Ossetia trying to escape Georgian troops. When CNN reported that city of Gori "is occupied by Russians", Reuters' correspondent, who WAS in Gori at this moment, reported that the city is completely empty. Russian bloggers analyzed pictures published by Western Internet sites. Most of them are staged and were intended exclusively for Western audience consumption. >What do the Russians want? Control of the oil and gas pipelines to the >sea. How far are they willing to go to get it? We'll see. You forgot that this is the US usually starts oil and gas wars. Could you imagine that other people could fight for different values? Saakashvili never makes a single move without consulting with US advisers first. So, US definitely knew about the assault plans in advance and did not stop him. Now when this plan failed, they blame Russia. Dr. Gebbels used to practice this approach... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:265705 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
