[agere_contra]

Everyone seems to forget that Georgia initiated this military action by attacking S. Ossetian civilians and peacekeepers in a region that had been peaceful for a number of years

The South Ossetians fired artillery at the Georgians from the safety of a city. The Georgians - not as copacetic in their own destruction as Olmert's Israel - fired back. Hence the talk of massacres and so forth, when in fact the Ossetians are wearing their own civilians as body armor.

This tactic - of firing from the midst of civilian concentrations - has been made infamous by Hamas, Hezbollah and so on. It's not surprising to see Russian agents using the same tactic - the KGB made Arafat, and the KGB (with no name change) are running South Ossetia today.

[Bokababe]

"The South Ossetians fired artillery at the Georgians from the safety of a city. The Georgians - not as copacetic in their own destruction as Olmert's Israel - fired back. Hence the talk of massacres and so forth, when in fact the Ossetians are wearing their own civilians as body armor.

Have you got any links on this? Because everything I am reading, including the anti-Russia stuff, is saying that Georgia started it.

I am just coming up to speed on the Georgia/ S. Ossetia/Russia political situation. I am far from expert on it. I am, however, determined to take a fair look at it without knee-jerk assuming things or grabbing on to old stereotypes and assuming that they apply here.