Europe knows the deal.
Posted on 09/30/2009 10:56:59 PM PDT by GWConservative
From RT on YouTube: A new EU report may finally answers the question as to which country started the Russo-Georgian war in August 2008. The European Union conducted a nine-month investigation into the issue and has concluded that it was Georgia, more specifically Saakashvili, who triggered the conflict. So why was the U.S. Government, along with the mainstream media, so intent on blaming Russia for the war? And what will these new revelations mean for Georgian relations with the United States and Europe? RT's Dina Gusovsky talks to Tsotne Bakuria, former member of the Georgian Parliament.
Your right, Russian PR bluster.
Furthermore, the EU Report is about as valid as the UN’s Goldstone Report. =.=
They’re right. Georgia started the war when they returned fire.
Yes, and David started the war with Goliath too...
Europe knows the deal.
According to the libs, the Israelites should have been happy to stay as slaves in Egypt. They had no business being there in the promised land. They invariably will also put “promised land” in quotes.
Russia’s in full court pres with this because all their other claims have been found to be less than accurate. Essentially it’s a technical foul. Georgia took the first shot but Russia set it up to be an inevitability by stoking separatism and refusing to pull their peacekeepers.
"The crisis was sparked earlier this week when Georgia sent troops into the breakaway province of South Ossetia to quell a Russian-backed separatist uprising."
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Russia-On-Verge-Of-All-Out-War-As-Troops-Clash-In-Georgias-South-Ossetia/Article/200808215074261?lpos=World%2BNews_4&lid=ARTICLE_15074261_Russia%2BOn%2BVerge%2BOf%2BAll-Out%2BWar%2BAs%2BTroops%2BClash%2BIn%2BGeo
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From the New York Times, September 15, 2008
Georgia Offers Fresh Evidence on War’s Start
Russia has not disputed the veracity of the phone calls, which were apparently made by Ossetian border guards on a private Georgian cellphone network. “Listen, has the armor arrived or what?” a supervisor at the South Ossetian border guard headquarters asked a guard at the tunnel with the surname Gassiev, according to a call that Georgia and the cellphone provider said was intercepted at 3:52 a.m. on Aug. 7.
“The armor and people,” the guard replied. Asked if they had gone through, he said, “Yes, 20 minutes ago; when I called you, they had already arrived.”
Shota Utiashvili, the director of the intelligence analysis team at Georgia’s Interior Ministry, said the calls pointed to a Russian incursion. “This whole conflict has been overshadowed by the debate over who started this war,” he said. “These intercepted recordings show that Russia moved first and that we were defending ourselves.”
The recordings, however, do not explicitly describe the quantity of armor or indicate that Russian forces were engaged in fighting at that time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/world/europe/16georgia.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-42816620091001
Georgia started war with Russia - EU-backed report
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - An independent report blamed Georgia on Wednesday for starting last year's five-day war with Russia, but said Moscow's military response went beyond reasonable limits and violated international law.
Ah, I long to see the day where Russophiles are treated like pedophiles on this site...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5114401.ece
From The Sunday Times
November 9, 2008
Georgia fired first shot, say UK monitors
Two former British military officers are expected to give crucial evidence against Georgia when an international inquiry is convened to establish who started the country’s bloody five-day war with Russia in August.
Ryan Grist, a former British Army captain, and Stephen Young, a former RAF wing commander, are said to have concluded that, before the Russian bombardment began, Georgian rockets and artillery were hitting civilian areas in the breakaway region of South Ossetia every 15 or 20 seconds.
Their accounts seem likely to undermine the American-backed claims of President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia that his little country was the innocent victim of Russian aggression and acted solely in self-defence.
During the war both Grist and Young were senior figures in the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The organisation had deployed teams of unarmed monitors to try to reduce tension over South Ossetia, which had split from Georgia in a separatist struggle in the early 1990s with Russia’s support.
I will take the testimony of British officers and gentlemen over your views any day.
For the record, Nikas777, what do you think personally of KGB Putin?
“All Hail Holy Crusader Putin! Hail the Holy Rodina! Down with USA! Down with Boosh!” /Putinista
My opinion of Putin is that I rather have him on my side in a street fight than against me.
Russia didn’t learn their lesson the first time they unleashed the Chechens on Georgia, in the early nineties, when Shamil Basayev led an “Abkhaz Battalion” in Georgia who played football with the severed head of Christian Georgians. In return Basayev gave Russia the Beslan massacre. Now evil Russia sent its jihadist Chechen animals back into Georgia again to rape and pillage and massacre. God damn Russia!
I’d rather be on America’s side. Unlike yourself.
Because he's a dirty and ruthless no-rules SOB?
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