Posted on 08/13/2008 2:09:24 AM PDT by HarryCaul
The head of Georgia's national security council said Wednesday Russia has sent 50 tanks into the central Georgian city of Gori, despite an agreed-upon ceasefire calling on both sides to retreat to positions they held before fighting began six days ago.
Security council head Alexander Lomaia said that the tanks entered Gori about 9:45 a.m. local time, but there was no independent confirmation of his claim.
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Because if we don’t Russian troops will be on the borders of Israel.
Because if we don’t Russian troops will be on the borders of Israel.
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With all this talk of the US pulling out of Iraq they will
have a good start on it,,,
In a month it could be Russia in control of the Straits of
Hormuz,,,
At this point there is nothing in Russia’s way to stop them
if Iran is not taken out now,,,
They are still pouring troops/tanks/etc. into Georgia for a reason...
Not sure, but I think they are. Condi Rice is enroute shortly as well I heard.
Yes, humanitarian assistance coming in via C17. This is going to be a bit sticky because you know the Russians don’t want Stingers getting in there. I only wish we were as devious as the Russians and had some Stingers coming in.
Russians are doing the same exact thing the Serbians did to the Bosnians and Kosovars. Infact, it is widely reported the Russians were running the show and sending troops to both of those conflicts. There were a lot of freepers on here claiming that the Serbs were christians and it was wrong we attacked them. Well, just because they have a Christian presence in the country doesn’t make them choir boys. China, Russia, and other oppressive states have churches, but they are state sanctioned and doesn’t mean that they act like christians. Muslims in kosovo, particulary Albanians have always been on our side. This is the kind of brutality that the Russians/Serbs/Iranians and their allies can unleash on civilian populations. Russians and the Serbs have always been known for their gross human rights violations during conflict.
“And then someone needs to take out Iran. Stop the Iranian nuke machine before it destroys Israel and takes the ME oil fields for the ayatollahs’ Russian masters.”
The Israelis can handle that themselves. They have 300-500 nukes, we don’t need to get involved.
“Wow...those Russian (blankety blanks) are asking for it. The US and NATO need to send troops in and help the Georgians, and after that suspend Russia from the G8.”
Why do we have to keep doing the European’s jobs for them so they can keep funding money into their socialist welfare programs? If they can build something like the A380 and beat Boeing for a tanker contract, they have the capability to assist Georgia if it’s really that important. We don’t need to get involved.
I wouldn’t say we need to get involved, but I don’t have confidence that the Europeans will handle it themselves. Yes they’re capable of handling it, but so far they’ve done nothing. Only Turkey and Ukraine have given aid and electricity to Georgia.
U.S. MILITARY DOES NOT PLAN TO TAKE CONTROL OF GEORGIAN PORTS, A 13 Aug 2008 17:17:40 GMT
Source: Reuters
U.S. MILITARY DOES NOT PLAN TO TAKE CONTROL OF GEORGIAN PORTS, AIRPORTS FOR AID MISSION-PENTAGON
That is something that it seems the news is intentionally ommitting.
It is like they are presenting it as there are all of these people that just have to be fighting with religion having nothing to do with it when religion may have something to do with it, not sure.
No! They are ethnic Russians, perhaps a bit of Serb or whatever, but Christians.
If you recall, the takeover and bombing of a school by Islamic terrorists took place in N. Ossetia.(located in Russia)
I believe they dominant ethnicity of S.Ossetia is Persian Christian.
What's being omitted in the reporting is that the Newsies are not putting the blame where it belongs, and it's not a religious issue, it's a issue of who is your daddy. The S. Ossetians are acting under Russian authority and not the authority of the country where they are located. This is done to keep Georgia off balance and in turmoil and for no other reason.
Makes no sense to me.
I guess it is sovereignty and control.
My own ethnicity is from farther South and is more Serbian as my grandmother came from Sarajevo and my grandfather from somewhere in Georgia and both orthodox roman catholic. They left in 1921 as a result of the last Russian invasion.
I don't know if the south Ossetians can be referred to as terrorists or not.
I am unsure why this fighting and killing is going on.
I don't understand this at all. I don't want to suggest that I know what side is right in this or least wrong, I don't.
The Russians use this fact and keep them stirred up for their own reasons.
They are Good people, but they are being used as pawns in a much larger game.
Georgia has every right to this area. It is theirs and no person or the U.N. disputes this.
The S. Ossetians have been instigating and goading the Georgians for years, and under normal circumstances, the government would have taken control in 1921, but because the Russians continue to play this game of chess by using the Ossetian pawns as excuses to invade, Georgians cannot bring closure to this mess. You can see what happened when they tried, and it immediately escalated from a roundup of some criminal thugs with Russian guns into a international incident.
All I can do is inform you of the background of this, but really it's more a simple matter of sovereignty. The Georgian government has been prevented from controlling what is a increasingly hostile area in it's own territory. This situation exists for only one purpose and that is to allow Russia to control the State of Georgia by not allowing it to end this. So as a result the country stays i a state of constant agitation and cannot proceed beyond it, no matter how hard it tries or how much help it gets.
You must have a stable political environment to grow and prosper, and Russia simply will not allow this to happen simply because it is not in Russia's interest to have a stable Democracy on it's doorstep..
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