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Fox news ^ | 8/8/08 | na

[SueRae]

uh oh

bigtime

[listenhillary]

Oh fudge..

[Constitution Day]

Very bad. Yikes!

[listenhillary]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,399962,00.html

[JennysCool]

Uh oh is right.

The Russians don’t like that sort of behavior.

[vladimir998]

Uh, oh.

[Bon mots]

uh-oh.
This smells like trouble.
Pootie-poot will now follow with something really stupid.

We have some troops there.

[libh8er]

Hopefully Putin was in one of them.

[HangnJudge]

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Heavy-Fighting-In-South-Ossetia-As-Georgia-Launches-Offensive-Against-Break-Away-Province/Article/200808215073456?lpos=World%2BNews_1&lid=ARTICLE_15073456_Heavy%2BFighting%2BIn%2BSouth%2BOssetia%2BAs%2BGeorgia%2BLaunches%2BOffensive%2BAgainst%2BBreak-Away%2BProvince

Georgia's Interior Ministry spokesman says that Georgian forces have shot down two Russian combat planes as violence escalates in the breakaway province of South Ossetia.

Russia has sent 150 tanks and armored vehicles into the territory as what started as a regional conflict between Georgia and separatists threatens to build into all-out war.

A senior Georgian security official says Russian jets have bombed Vaziani military airbase outside the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, Reuters reports.

[SE Mom]

They were just showing this on FOX- lots of bombs dropping.

Not good.

[LikeLight]

Pootie-poot will now follow with something really stupid

Seems like Putin's itching for a chance to reassert Russian dominance. He's flexing his muscle. Godspeed to whatever troops we have in that region.

[Types_with_Fist]

This has been building all night. Not good.

[advance_copy]

War is breaking out in the Caucuses. And yet there are Americans who still want Barak Obama to be Commander-in-Chief?!?

[AU72]

Afghanistan revisited.

[mware]

Vaziani military airbase

Aren't some of OUR troops training there right now????

[WayneS]

Crap.

[epluribus_2]

starting this sort of mess often happens when the news and the world’s attentions are diverted to something important (?) like the olympics.

[saveliberty]

Howie Carr coined the phrase “the Wizard of Uhs” quite a number of years ago and has played that game with tapes of the Uhs guy himself, the pantaloonless Senator from Hyannisport.

It really is tricky to win because a prolonged Uh could be several.

I love Rush, but he should give credit to Howie.

[manapua]

Even worse, there are “conservatives” who think it’s just fine for Obama to get elected. All because their RINO didn’t convince enough of the Republican base that he was really a conservative...

[y6162]

“The Russians don’t like that sort of behavior.”

Wonder if this will wake up the euro trash. Better not expect us to save them from the bear again.

Poland I would support.

[9YearLurker]

Pooty escalating things under cover of the Olympic ceremonies?

[jhpigott]

war certainly is breaking out - reports of a armored divisional size element or Russians crossing the Georgia border within the last couple of hours

[WayneS]

Yeah, GREAT isn’t it?

If nothing else we will “live in interesting times”.

[advance_copy]

Tue Jul 15, 5:40 AM ET VAZIANI, Georgia (Reuters) - One thousand U.S. troops began a military training exercise in Georgia on Tuesday against a backdrop of growing friction between Georgia and neighboring Russia.

[newfreep]

Are there mooslimbs involved?

[JDLinn]

And where has the damned news media been? We’ve spent the last two weeks being bombarded with tire gauge philosophy and Paris Hilton’s energy plan ... and THIS is going on and we only find out when Russia invades Georgia? They should NEVER call themselves ‘NEWS’ again ... we don’t have a NEWS media anymore do we. No way we should be “surprised” with this news as we are. Shame on the “opinion” media!!!

[HangnJudge]

Vaziani military airbase
Aren't some of OUR troops training there right now????

Damn...
God Speed to our troops!

[manapua]

Vaziani military airbase Aren't some of OUR troops training there right now????

US Army and USMC were there very recently for training... I am trying to find info if they are still there. This is not good.

[HereInTheHeartland]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/08/georgia.ossetia/index.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121817403177323701.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news

[mathluv]

F&F said our troops had left earlier in the week.

[stuartcr]

They had no business flying over Savannah like that.

[mware]

Georgian/U.S. Military celebrate differences through leadership commonalities Non-commissioned Officer Day 31 July 2008

VAZIANI MILITARY BASE, Tbilisi, Georgia- United States and Georgian military senior enlisted leaders took time from training during Exercise Immediate Response 2008 here to discuss the role of the senior non-commissioned officer and understand their respective military cultures.

[LRS]

OK, President Bush. You need to call Congress back, and do it now! Get Book Tour Nancy back in there, before this overseas crises somehow causes an increase in energy prices. We cannot sit on our recesses and drill up our backsides with our thumbs. We need to Drill Here, and Drill Now, in ANWR, and off our coasts!

[penelopesire]

Heard a report that our military left yesterday. Putin knows better than that it would appear.

[Larry Lucido]

Hmm. The WRIF morning show guys were just making fun of someone who predicted the end of the world on 8-8-08 at 8 am. Maybe we shouldn’t laugh just yet....

[mware]

http://www.setaf.army.mil/

[craig_eddy]

Well we survived 8 AM Eastern...

[G.Mason]

Does this mean the Georgian’s have more than the molotov cocktails the Hungarian’s had in ‘56?

[silverleaf]

The euro trash will be whimpering for the US step in and sort things out. One time the euro libs appreciate “cowboys” is when europeans start killing other europeans.

[PapaBear3625]

Voice of America: Georgian Forces Attack South Ossetia

Georgian military forces have fought their way into the capital of the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said Friday he had ordered an all-out offensive to regain control of the breakaway area.

Russian "peacekeeping" troops are in Ossetia. Georgia accuses them of aiding the rebels. Looks like combat might soon or already be happening between Georgian and Russian ground forces

[ETL]

Frank Marshall Davis

Obama’s Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008

Barack Obama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA, wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army,” he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.

The “Red Army” poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:

“Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!”

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/

________________________________________________

"'The Black Book of Communism,' a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=

"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century"
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hooverdigest.org/053/beichman.html

[Doohickey]

Here, let me call you a whaambulance. In the meantime, how about you quit carping at people whose support you have on more issues than not.

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. BUMP!

[Larry Lucido]

See, that’s the problem. Doomsayers never get specific as to time zone.

[autumnraine]

Whoa! That is serious!

[MinorityRepublican]

Will the price of oil go up today? If so, maybe we should all fill up our gas tanks now.

[silverleaf]

I think the world will end on pacific time. If God does have a sense of humor.

[listenhillary]

Hey I stole it from a freeper who used it. Thanks for the history though!

[Spktyr]

Yup. So much for the vaunted superiority of Russian gear... again.

The Georgians use Western gear, much of it US-made.

That said... quantity has a quality all its own, and Russia has more resources to throw at this.