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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More like 100% of the RATS blame the US!
Best I can find out is the Russians had spent a lot of time stirring stuff up in the area. The Georgia guv thought a threat was there and acted. Clearly Russias was ready and set to go so this is certainly plausible.
I’ll say it — it’s Bush’s fault!!!
Refreshing to see 75% Don’t blame the US.
That’s a much higher number than we find with those voters that are registered as democrats, indies and libertarians.
Just the Ron Paul voters percentage blaming the USA, for this and for all future issues, is twice that!
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