Posted on 08/15/2008 8:55:16 AM PDT by bimmer_n_me
An eyewitness account from the conflict zone.
We have rallies like that in the Great North West also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecp8ZCC3tB8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JXPIBsxdk0
Not quite the same. IMHO!
Why? Because its not accompanied by Soviet propaganda talking points?
That’s what I get tired of hearing, how Georgia invaded South Ossetia. I keep thinking, if the military moved into Florida to settle an uprising, would the world say the US invaded Florida?
Crazy.
Excellent Excellent Excellent comparison and completely accurate.
I hate to say you are right. We jumped through hoops for Kuwait. It seems we only fight the ones we know we can beat.
There’s a russian youtube?
No, I didn't forget that. They both still do have plenty of oil. That doesn't take away from the fact that redrawn boundaries after WWI is pretty much the same excuse Saddam used.
And Georgia has a pipeline. Wouldn't exactly call that "nada."
“That’s what I get tired of hearing, how Georgia invaded South Ossetia. I keep thinking, if the military moved into Florida to settle an uprising, would the world say the US invaded Florida?”
Maybe the breakaway province of Aztlan?
“Maybe the breakaway province of Aztlan?”
Yeah, really! haha
Well, “Son” I was “telling the truth”.
South Ossetia is part of Georgia. Just like Michigan is a part of the US.
There was a riot, which escalated, the police were over run so the military was sent in.
Then the Russians came in
Now why don’t you try reading up on what really happened?
Why were the Russians sitting there in FORCE?
Why did the Russians “pass out passports like candy”?
Why were there Russian arms given out just before the SHTF?
If Michigan tried to secede from th US and Bush sent in troops to quell the riots, you think it is ok for Canada to send in tanks and kill American soldiers?
No, it was EXACTLY the same thing.
Don’t tell me that area “hasn’t been ruled since 1920s” by Georgia, since Georgia AND that are were OCCUPIED by the SOVIETS.
Another Russian Apologist comes to light.
Oh and change your name, since your alias is nothing like Kirk would do it.
But by your post, you are acting as if he entered into another country to handle an issue. Since when does a nation have to get permission from NATO or the UN to handle it’s own people in it’s own territory! If anything, Russia, who claims to be protecting citizens of another country by the way, should have gone to the UN. NATO is irrelevant since they decided not to accept them (Georgia).
ROFL!!
Number two is that both the chechens and georgians reported troop buildups very early on. So much so that the state dept warned Georgia to not react.
Yes he did, and thanks for beating me to it. I love your post.
Russia is backing the separatists for her own evil purposes.
May Putin the gangster and the Russian invaders be crushed. Not interested in their lies.
The leader of Georgia jumped the shark.
and he complicated our best interests in the meantime.
he was a poor mule to hitch yer wagon to and now we're stuck doing diplomatic and strategery sabre rattling cause that's all we got unless the big nuts crowd here wants to trade nukes with Putin over this backwater.
not me...
back in the real Cold War we woulda been more careful and prepared.
we could win a nuke battle with Putin but at what cost?
a damn high one
Bush's relatively muted reply to all this publicly belies that about all he can do is make a deal
so because we trusted this numbnuts running Georgia to behave with the proven testy Putin (leader of the world's largest Mafia who did not get there being stupid nor soft)
now we will have to fork over some gratuity to get Pooty to go back to his yard and quit pounding the shite out of his neighbors
this is a result of foreign policy misadventure (and some political correctness) going back to the Balkans.
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