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Breaking Fox news banner only - Georgian official reports shootdown of two Russian aircraft
Fox news ^ | 8/8/08 | na

Posted on 08/08/2008 5:37:41 AM PDT by SueRae

uh oh

bigtime

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 888; caucasus; geopolitics; georgiantroops; ossetia; shootdown; war
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To: Spktyr
The Georgians are fiercely independent. Then again, from their land came Stalin...
61 posted on 08/08/2008 5:56:43 AM PDT by Dansong
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To: mathluv
F&F said our troops had left earlier in the week.

Impeccable timing.

62 posted on 08/08/2008 5:56:45 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: Doohickey

Right back at you. FR has been saturated with WMPH crying from the “Let Obama win to teach the GOP a lesson” crowd for too long. And those of us on the STFU side have consistently pointed out that there are more important things at stake.


63 posted on 08/08/2008 5:56:52 AM PDT by manapua
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To: advance_copy

“The two-week exercise ...” so hopefully our troops are home and not in harm’s way in Vaziani.


64 posted on 08/08/2008 5:57:15 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (College kid: "Do you have a minute for Obama?" NVA: "Not now or ever.")
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To: newfreep

I don’t think there are Muslims per se involved in this. It’s a conflict involving two former Georgian regions that broke away (a number of years ago). They are supported by Russia against Georgia, which wants them back. The states are near Turkey, I believe, so they may be Muslim, but I don’t think that’s the essence of this particular conflict.


65 posted on 08/08/2008 5:57:31 AM PDT by livius
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To: Spktyr

Yeah but the Russians can sustain heavy casualties as long as they have the will and they do not fear the West will ever intervene in the crisis.


66 posted on 08/08/2008 5:57:33 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Kozak

Exactly!


67 posted on 08/08/2008 5:57:41 AM PDT by ETL (Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
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To: Dixie Yooper

I won’t have a problem with him cutting his Olympic trip short. But he doesn’t need to be here to call Congress back into session first. This 5 week delay to please Ms. Botox is silly, and costly, and if prices start to go back up, waiting for her to finish her book tour is sillier than the President being at the Olympics.


68 posted on 08/08/2008 5:58:03 AM PDT by LRS (NO DRILLING; NO PEACE!)
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To: ETL

Thanks for the link...from the 1st at post #42...

“The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order.”

Have you seen these quotes?...

“The principal characteristic of twenty-first-century international relations is turning out to be nonpolarity: a world dominated not by one or two or even several states but rather by dozens of actors possessing and exercising various kinds of power. This represents a tectonic shift from the past.”

“Other entities deserving inclusion would be global media outlets (al Jazeera, the BBC, CNN), militias (Hamas, Hezbollah, the Mahdi Army, the Taliban), political parties, religious institutions and movements, terrorist organizations (al Qaeda), drug cartels, and NGOs of a more benign sort (the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, Greenpeace). Today’s world is increasingly one of distributed, rather than concentrated, power.”

from...Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations...here...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/the_age_of_nonpolarity.html


69 posted on 08/08/2008 5:58:48 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: SueRae

Aircraft shot down? That’s a normal risk on a bombing mission.


70 posted on 08/08/2008 5:59:25 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Boycott Washington D.C. until they allow gun ownership)
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To: silverleaf

I wonder if the Georgians have nukes. Anyone know?


71 posted on 08/08/2008 5:59:33 AM PDT by y6162
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To: manapua
Right back at you. FR has been saturated with WMPH crying from the “Let Obama win to teach the GOP a lesson” crowd for too long. And those of us on the STFU side have consistently pointed out that there are more important things at stake.

Couldn't have said it better myself! Nicely done.

72 posted on 08/08/2008 5:59:41 AM PDT by ETL (Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
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To: All
A senior Georgian security official says Russian jets have bombed Vaziani military airbase outside the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, Reuters reports.
73 posted on 08/08/2008 6:00:04 AM PDT by McGruff (In loving memory of a lost FRiend YaYa123.)
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To: Junior_G

On the Today show this morning it was rumored that Lauer and his side kick were overheard saying...........let the newsgal handle it, we’re busy watching important stuff.


74 posted on 08/08/2008 6:00:46 AM PDT by shadeaud
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To: SueRae; xzins; jude24

We have some troops on the ground there training the Georgians...

Roo-Roo


75 posted on 08/08/2008 6:00:46 AM PDT by Gamecock (The question is not, "Am I good enough to be a Christian?" rather "Am I good enough not to be?")
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To: LRS


http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/08/news/pelosi_oil/

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday urged President Bush to release crude oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/04/campaign.wrap/index.html

Obama calls for tapping into strategic oil reserves














76 posted on 08/08/2008 6:00:55 AM PDT by Son House ( [ ]Obama=>LoseBothWars/Raise Taxes [X]McCain=>WinBothWars/CutPorkBarrelSpending)
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To: Junior_G

I wonder what China will do if these events overshadow their Olympic spectacle. Won’t make them too happy.


77 posted on 08/08/2008 6:01:09 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: JDLinn

I was in South Africa a few years ago and met several Europeans vacationing there as well. I was amazed at the news there compared to ours. There is all kinds of “stuff” going on in the world that we never hear about.

We have the sports and the scandals...


78 posted on 08/08/2008 6:01:23 AM PDT by myrabach
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To: McGruff

Where was it that we were sending those two carriers?


79 posted on 08/08/2008 6:01:27 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (My son just joined the Navy!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Spktyr

Georgia announced that Russia has declared war against them.


80 posted on 08/08/2008 6:01:32 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E. That spells free. freerepublic.com baby)
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