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Quarter of Russians blame U.S. for conflict - poll
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Posted on 08/13/2008 12:10:03 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Quarter of Russians blame U.S. for conflict - poll 13 Aug 2008 18:47:42 GMT Source: Reuters MOSCOW, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Russians blame the United States and Georgia for triggering the conflict in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, with just one percent pointing the finger at Moscow, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday.
When asked who was guilty for the conflict in South Ossetia, 54 percent of those polled blamed Georgia and another 22 percent blamed the United States, a survey carried out by Russia's largest pollsters VTsIOM showed.
A further 12 percent said Russia, South Ossetia and Georgia were jointly responsible for the conflict, it said.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; antiamerican; blame; blameamerica; blamebush; geopolitics; georgia; hateamericafilth; ossetia; russia; southossetia; war
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
To: Sub-Driver
And Quarter of all Democrats blame U.S. for conflict More like 90 percent of Democrats.
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posted on
08/13/2008 12:27:47 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
("I have never learned to fight for my freedom. I was only good at enjoying it" - Van Den Boogaard)
To: Sub-Driver
We get blamed for everything, this is no surprise.
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posted on
08/13/2008 12:28:02 PM PDT
by
diamond6
(Everyone who is for abortion has been born. Ronald Reagan)
To: Sub-Driver
A quarter of the world blames the U.S. for everything.
Two-thirds of Democrats blame the U.S. for everything. The other third enables them to do so.
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posted on
08/13/2008 12:29:21 PM PDT
by
rightinthemiddle
(The Mainstream Media Controls Our Party. Go, RINOS!)
To: Sub-Driver
Quarter of Russians blame U.S. for conflict - poll That just shows that Russia has its hand full with idiots.
Want to see the man responsible for this problem? Look at Putin.
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posted on
08/13/2008 12:32:06 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(A citizen using a weapon to shoot a criminal is the ultimate act of independence from government.)
To: wideawake
"No the question is: who had troops on whose sovereign soil?" We need to see the Pentagon's sat. photo's. No doubt there are stacks of them.
I wonder what Bush's visit not long ago was really about as well.
For some reason Georgia felt confident enough to move. Too many unanswered questions to really get a good read on what the Pentagon is thinking.
And then there's the Ukraine and parts of poland, also very near showdown alert.
To: Sub-Driver
I was curious what Russian people think about this conflict when I visited one of the Russian on-line forums. Some of the members also blame Jews.
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posted on
08/13/2008 12:35:46 PM PDT
by
tubasonum
(proud to be naturalized American)
To: Sub-Driver
The Russians I know aren’t worth a hoot, so why would I care abou thow they poll?
To: Sub-Driver
Russians will believe what Czar Vladimir tells them to believe. Remember, he controls all media in the Russian Empire.
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posted on
08/13/2008 12:38:32 PM PDT
by
Repeal 16-17
(Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
To: Sub-Driver
Does Pastor Jeremiah Wright have a finger he can point here?
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posted on
08/13/2008 12:38:33 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Hi there.)
To: Sub-Driver
So, we are supposed to believe that this poll is accurate ...and what is supposed to make me believe that this isn’t part of a larger psychological operations campaign????... ahhhh.....how soon we forget.
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posted on
08/13/2008 12:39:06 PM PDT
by
zimfam007
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
To: Nathan Zachary; edcoil
The issue is being couched in Russia's terms.
Georgia didn't move first. Russia moved first.
The existing situation in South Ossetia was that Russian troops and Ossetian irregulars patrolled the Ossetian villages in South Ossetia and that Georgian soldiers and Georgian police patrolled the Georgian villages in South Ossetia.
Almost two weeks ago, this uneasy, unspoken agreement was breached when IEDs were set off killing Georgian policemen on their routine rounds.
This was followed up by artillery shelling of Georgian villages from artillery emplacements in Ossetian villages.
It is clear in retrospect that these IEDs and this shelling was not simply the work of overeager Ossetian irregulars, but a deliberate provocation by Russia - which quickly mobilized forces to the Georgia border within hours of Georgia initiating some retaliatory shelling.
Russia escalated and Georgia reacted - not the other way around.
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posted on
08/13/2008 12:43:01 PM PDT
by
wideawake
(Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
To: Sub-Driver
And Quarter of all Democrats blame U.S. for conflict - pollI'd bet 75% of DUmmies, KOmmies and HUfpos blame the U. S. for this conflict.
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posted on
08/13/2008 12:50:45 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
To: Sub-Driver
What they really meant to say was that 75 percent of Russians don’t blame the USA.
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posted on
08/13/2008 12:58:05 PM PDT
by
calex59
To: calex59
Flipped, it is really a telling statistic. They know the real score. Nztionalism and the ghost of Catherine the Great are to be blamed
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posted on
08/13/2008 1:00:09 PM PDT
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Conservation? Let the NE Yankees freeze.... in the dark)
To: Arrowhead1952
I'd bet 75% of DUmmies, KOmmies and HUfpos blame the U. S. for this conflict.I'll raise you. I say at least 95% of the above blame the USA for everything that goes wrong in the world.
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posted on
08/13/2008 1:01:32 PM PDT
by
Repeal 16-17
(Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
To: wideawake
The issue is being couched in Russia's terms. Georgia didn't move first. Russia moved first. The existing situation in South Ossetia was that Russian troops and Ossetian irregulars patrolled the Ossetian villages in South Ossetia and that Georgian soldiers and Georgian police patrolled the Georgian villages in South Ossetia. Almost two weeks ago, this uneasy, unspoken agreement was breached when IEDs were set off killing Georgian policemen on their routine rounds. This was followed up by artillery shelling of Georgian villages from artillery emplacements in Ossetian villages. It is clear in retrospect that these IEDs and this shelling was not simply the work of overeager Ossetian irregulars, but a deliberate provocation by Russia - which quickly mobilized forces to the Georgia border within hours of Georgia initiating some retaliatory shelling. Russia escalated and Georgia reacted - not the other way around. Great post. Russia has been trying to stir something up for some time. If you remember in April a MIG 29 shot down one of Georgia's Israeli made UAV's. The Russians claimed it was a Abkhaz L-39 - obviously it was not.
UAV Shootdown cs
To: Sub-Driver
25% of Russians think we are to blame?? Are those the people who lives in one of Obama’s ‘57 states’? It is time we tell Putin to ‘Go F himself’.
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posted on
08/13/2008 1:28:01 PM PDT
by
EagleandLiberty
(it is time to go BEAR hunting in Georgia, so other REPUBLICS can be safe!!)
To: Repeal 16-17
I say at least 95% of the above blame the USA for everything that goes wrong in the world. Well, I was giving them a tiny bit of credit.
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posted on
08/13/2008 1:38:09 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(A vote for any Democrat from BO on down the ticket is a vote for $10 a gallon gas.)
To: Sub-Driver
Yeah, that’s right. As a conservative White Christian I am the cause of the worlds woes.
I personally am responsible for Russia invading Georgia, I am responsible for slavery (even though blacks mostly were sold in to slavery by their own kind). The American Indian and their demise is my fault as is the eath of Christ.
Hey russia, f.u. , try treating other countries with respect rather then a boot across the throat.
Stupid third world crap hole.
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posted on
08/13/2008 2:04:42 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
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