Posted on 08/13/2008 11:56:31 AM PDT by Righter-than-Rush
An AP reporter saw dozens of trucks and armored vehicles leaving Gori, roaring southeast. Soldiers waved at journalists and one soldier jokingly shouted to a photographer: "Come with us, beauty, we're going to Tbilisi!" But the convoy turned north and left the highway about an hour's drive from the Georgian capital, and set up camp a mile off the road. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russian troops were near Gori to secure weapons left behind by the Georgians. To the west, Russian-backed Abkhazian separatists pushed Georgian troops out of Abkhazia and even moved into Georgian territory itself, defiantly planting a flag over the Inguri River and laughing that retreating Georgians had received "American training in running away." The developments came less than 12 hours after Georgia's president said he accepted a cease-fire plan brokered by France. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday that Russia was halting military action because Georgia had paid enough for its attack last Thursday on South Ossetia. Bush said he was skeptical that Moscow was honoring the cease-fire. "To begin to repair the damage to its relations with the United States, Europe and other nations and to begin restoring its place in the world, Russia must keep its word and act to end this crisis," Bush said. The EU peace plan calls for both sides to retreat to the positions they held prior to the outbreak of fighting late Thursday. That phrasing apparently would allow Georgian forces to return to the positions they held in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and clearly obliges Russia to leave all parts of Georgia except South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili criticized Western nations for failing to help Georgia, a U.S. ally that has been seeking NATO membership.
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Russia already restarted the cold war. It might be time to get dirty again. Time to act.
These fellows will be eating their words soon enough.
Do you think we will become militarily involved in this? The damage is already done to Georgia, what are we going to do?
Yeah! It’s going to happen! President Bush is going to send a strongly worded letter saying he’s “deeply concerned” about these developments. They’re all already pretending that Russian is acting on the ceasefire. We know they’re using the ceasefire to loot and take up positions. Bush and Sarkozy and Rice are just going to say how “Deeply Concerned” they are. Then do nothing.
This is the same thing we did in Kosovo.
The difference is that we took the side of the Muslims and the Russians didn’t.
I want to see Russia kill the American troops, pilots and staff, and destroy the airplanes and delivery vehicles; then I want an ultimatim to Russia of 24 hours to get everything out of Georgia or we will push them out with whatever means we choose, in the name of democracy of course.
Putin is not as stable as his Soviet forebears. If we act
it better be swift, decisive and limited to Georgia.
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