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Devastating Photos from Russia-Georgia War
Washington Post ^

Posted on 08/10/2008 11:04:35 AM PDT by quesney

TBILISI, Georgia -- Russia's foreign minister is disputing Georgia's claim that its troops have pulled out of South Ossetia, the separatist region where fighting with Russian forces has killed hundreds this weekend. Earlier Sunday, Georgia said its troops were withdrawing and President Mikhail Saakashvili said he was calling a cease-fire. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov disputed that in a telephone call with his Georgian counterpart Eka Tkeshelashvili, a ministry statement said. In the call, "the Russian side brought in facts about the presence of Georgian forces in certain neighborhoods of Tskhinvali," the South Ossetian capital where fighting has been heaviest, the statement said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: caucasus; geopolitics; georgia; ossetia; sosuthossetia; tskhinvali; war
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See the bloody slideshow on the same page.
1 posted on 08/10/2008 11:04:35 AM PDT by quesney
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To: quesney

The “human rights groups” must be on vacation. Can’t the U.S. Supreme Court DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS??


2 posted on 08/10/2008 11:08:21 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I'm trying to save the planet!" - Nancy Pelosi ..........ROTFLMAO! What a dumbass!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Maybe Pelosi will adopt a resolution to sue them. That’ll make it stop for sure!


3 posted on 08/10/2008 11:11:19 AM PDT by Crazieman (Vote Juan McAmnesty in 2008! Because freedom abroad is more important than freedom at home!)
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To: Crazieman

Good point! Where are the ‘RATS? Where is Fat Jack Murtha? (On vacation with the “human rights groups?”) Where’s the almighty U.N.?


4 posted on 08/10/2008 11:13:39 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I'm trying to save the planet!" - Nancy Pelosi ..........ROTFLMAO! What a dumbass!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Good questions.


5 posted on 08/10/2008 11:17:31 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: quesney

It’s still August 2005 on the Moonbat Calender...


6 posted on 08/10/2008 11:24:54 AM PDT by Coffee200am ("We should all be living in mud huts and riding bicycles to avoid killing the polar bears...%99"/s)
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To: quesney

Without much detail, like location, it is impossible to tell if Russia or Georgia did the killing in the photos. Just like in KosovO, we may be on the wrong side again.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2059481/posts?page=14#14


7 posted on 08/10/2008 11:32:52 AM PDT by Andy from Beaverton (I'm so anti-pc, I use a Mac)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Russia has veto power in the Security Council, and I don’t expect them to repeat the dumb moves they made at the start of Korea.


8 posted on 08/10/2008 11:38:00 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Who would McQueeg rather have mad at him: You or the liberals? FREE LAZAMATAZ!)
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To: quesney
A lot of these photos look staged like the Palestinians do against Israel, but some of them look sad and real.
9 posted on 08/10/2008 11:39:32 AM PDT by freeplancer
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To: Cyber Liberty

Stalin had pushed the North Koreans to cross the 38th, and temporarily boycotted the UN to assure US entry into the conflict under the mantle of the UN. He knew Truman could not be counted upon to defend South Korea otherwise. Newly Communist China was thereby forced to go to war with the US, to avoid having a unified ,free and democratic Korea on its northern flank. The US got handed a disaster, China became dependent upon Russia for over two decades and the Korean peninsula stayed just as it was befor Stalin orchestrated the whole affair. Don’t be misled, Russia made brilliant moves at the start of Korea.


10 posted on 08/10/2008 12:03:34 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: Andy from Beaverton

We shouldn’t be on any side. This is Russia’s backyard, let them do what they want there.


11 posted on 08/10/2008 12:16:47 PM PDT by Decombobulator
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To: quesney

That first picture, it looks like some chaps legs and feet to the right of the woman’s left shoulder. Sad.


12 posted on 08/10/2008 12:27:13 PM PDT by pangaea6
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To: Decombobulator
We shouldn’t be on any side. This is Russia’s backyard, let them do what they want there.

Yeah, and Poland was in Hitler's backyard.

What? Godwin's Law, you say? But it was the Russian ambassador to the U.N. who played the "genocide" card.

Regards,

13 posted on 08/10/2008 12:38:07 PM PDT by alexander_busek
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To: quesney
This begs the question...If all those that support the U.S. as being the worlds cop, protector of freedom, why has the current U.S. administration not intervened militarily if we have friends in this fight? We are hearing SW broadcast that over 3,000 are dead, and countless injured.

To be honest, I am not expecting much of a response to the question.

14 posted on 08/10/2008 12:40:08 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: nkycincinnatikid
OKJ. I must admit that my knowledge of that history is somewhat limited.

My original observation stands: The UN will not/can not do anything about Georgia.

15 posted on 08/10/2008 12:47:56 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Who would McQueeg rather have mad at him: You or the liberals? FREE LAZAMATAZ!)
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To: Cyber Liberty

I totally agree with you


16 posted on 08/10/2008 1:27:00 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: Cyber Liberty

We can, and must begin a total economic boycott of Russia.


17 posted on 08/10/2008 1:41:02 PM PDT by Tax Government (Vote for McCain, not McBambi.)
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To: Tax Government
We can, and must begin a total economic boycott of Russia.

We've pulled that trick too many times. A general boycott by the US doesn't do much good.

18 posted on 08/10/2008 1:56:07 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

We need to require other states to participate in the boycott, if they are to have access to U.S. markets.


19 posted on 08/10/2008 2:01:15 PM PDT by Tax Government (Vote for McCain, not McBambi.)
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To: quesney
Separatist regimes that open diplomacy by shelling their neighbors towns tend to end up getting trashed. And like clockwork, the liberals always sympathize with the ‘poor’ folks that just wanted to do a little killing and not suffer the consequences.

What is it about liberals that they hate anyone that reminds them that there are consequences to our actions in life?

20 posted on 08/10/2008 2:03:44 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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