[sinanju]

Gaawwwwd!

And to think we have been getting reports that we gave the Georgian army old equipment and vintage LAW’s and Redeyes.

I cannot believe this s***t! We should at least be sending them our latest Stingers and Javelins. We did it for the frickin’ Mujahedeen in the eighties.

Instead we trot out Condi to shake her finger and engage in “diplomacy.”

Ronaldus Magnus must be spinning.

[Shaun_MD]

Russian scum.

[alecqss]

opening phase of this crisis may soon come to a close, but it is shaping up to be merely the first chapter in a potentially long and dangerous era.

And then another collapse... seems to be the cycle through which Russia goes each century.

[DemonDeac]

KGB thug turned puppet master Putin seems to want to return to a lot of old Russia. He sure has shut down domestic freedom and is becoming much more aggressive in foreign policy. Thankfully our President must have seen this coming when he looked into Putin’s soul.

[Travis McGee]

Tbilisi is jammed with civilians who fled aerial bombardment and shootings by the Russian military—or massacres, looting, and arson by irregular Cossack paramilitary units swarming across the border.

Those Cossack "peacekeepers" again.

[Trailerpark Badass]

mark for later

[FreeReign]

The West saved the capital. They were moving to Tbilisi. There was one night that was very dangerous. The Russian tanks were very close to the capital. I don’t know what happened, but they moved the tanks back.” And my translator, whose husband works for Georgia’s ministry of foreign affairs, made a similar guess that the West helped save the capital. “The night they came close to Tbilisi,” she said, “Bush and McCain made their strongest speeches yet. The Russians seemed to back down. Bush and McCain have been very good for us.”

What has prevented the Russians from taking Tbilisi?? Is there a line in the sand and who drew it?

[TigersEye]

The Russian soldiers called him and asked where he was going, if he was going to the American side.”

“The Russians said this to him?” I said.

“My husband said he was going to see his family,” she said. “And the Russians said again, ‘Are you going to the American side?’”

“So the Russians view you as the American side, even though there are no Americans here.”

“Yes,” she said. “Because our way is for democracy.”

It is really going to be a bad thing if we abandon them. It is obvious that it isn't really Georgia the Russians are attacking in spirit.

[Fichori]

One question: When is someone going to arrange some Bear safari’s in Georgia?

[cricket]

“The night they came close to Tbilisi,” she said, “Bush and McCain made their strongest speeches yet. The Russians seemed to back down. Bush and McCain have been very good for us.”

Bump. . .

[nuconvert]

This needs to be Bumped

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl