Armed Cossacks pour in to fight Georgians

The Guardian ^ | 09 Aug 2008 | Tom Parfitt

[NormsRevenge]

Do Kossacks still carry horses around as part of an initiation? shades of Taras Bulba..

Hopefully cooler heads will prevail.. this cold get ugggly.

[SolidWood]

Will they also rape and pillage in Cossack fashion?

[NormsRevenge]

+u ]

[Argus]

Sounds like a lot of bad blood is spilling over in the Caucasus.

[No Truce With Kings]

Guardian is still carrying water for fascists, I see.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

Have the Cossack wives and children followed with picnic lunches and blankets?

[bruinbirdman]

Putin is rattling sabers. He just virtually said, "You put ABM's in Poland, make Georgia part of NATO or mess with Osetia and I will put missiles back in Cuba."

yitbos

[mylife]

Like Russia needs reinforcements. This sucks for the free country of Georgia

[McGruff]

the United States called on the Kremlin to prevent irregulars entering South Ossetia via the 4km Roki tunnel, the republic's only link with Russia

Hope they don't have a work accident in that tunnel.

[mylife]

Could get ugly? 1,400 are dead

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews+articleid_2495728&title=Georgia_Controls_Most_of.html

Georgia Controls Most of S. Ossetia - Saakashvili

TBILISI. Aug 8 (Interfax) - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said in an address to the Georgian nation on Friday that Georgian troops took control of most of South Ossetia overnight.

"We've fully liberated the Znauri and Tsinagari districts, some villages and fighting is now taking place in the center of Tskhinvali. Its outskirts are under our full control," Saakashvili said.

[mylife]

1,400 are dead. This isnt sabre rattling

[Libertarianize the GOP]

This is too bad, many Cossacks fought for the White Army Against the Red Army in an effort to prevent the Bolshevik take over of Russia. This time they are on the wrong side.

[mylife]

Barama will sort this out in short order

[mylife]

Georgia is pulling its troops in Iraq to come fight.

1-2000

[NormsRevenge]

1,400?

You’d never know it by media coverage.

[An Old Man]

"They give you a uniform on the way and you get issued with weapons once you arrive."

That reminded me of a scene in the movie Enemy at the Gates which takes place during the battle of Stalingrad. In the early stages of the movie Russian conscripts were sent to the front and equipped in a similar fashion. I always thought it rather strange, but I suppose that if things need to be accomplished in a hurry, it might work.

[mylife]

What will the Turks do?

[mylife]

1,400