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Breaking Fox news banner only - Georgian official reports shootdown of two Russian aircraft
Fox news ^ | 8/8/08 | na

Posted on 08/08/2008 5:37:41 AM PDT by SueRae

uh oh

bigtime

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 888; caucasus; geopolitics; georgiantroops; ossetia; shootdown; war
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To: Spktyr
I had forgotten about the "grounding".

Depending on how this develops, they may be airworthy in no time.

Heck, they still fly the Osprey.


" ... - awful long way back to base to rearm and refuel."


Much longer than Iraq?

241 posted on 08/08/2008 7:04:51 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: NavyCanDo

Several people were saying it, not only you. I just don’t like to see a whole breaking news thread end up sidetracked with a discussion of NATO’s supposed imminent intervention when there is no treaty obligation and no likelihood that NATO will get officially involved. Turkey, maybe.


242 posted on 08/08/2008 7:05:04 AM PDT by Enchante (If oil was botox then Nancy Pelosi would have us drilling everywhere!!! (hat tip, STARWISE))
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To: Mac94

From another site:

“Georgian minister denies that its troops are reatreating from Tshnvalli and says that its under Georgian controll.”


243 posted on 08/08/2008 7:05:09 AM PDT by Mac94
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To: Enchante
Really, why would NATO want to be committed to fighting Russia over a tiny province in the Caucusus?


244 posted on 08/08/2008 7:05:18 AM PDT by ETL (Lots of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl)
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To: NavyCanDo

There is nothing on DU yet. Time for my shower, later.


245 posted on 08/08/2008 7:05:22 AM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: Spktyr

They are all Godless heathens.


246 posted on 08/08/2008 7:05:42 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: mware

Someone posted some pics upthread. I wouldn’t know as I am waiting on a meeting to start and posting via my iPhone.


247 posted on 08/08/2008 7:05:46 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Mac94

Is that an older picture or one from this new/old war?


248 posted on 08/08/2008 7:07:00 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Obama, the Oreo CINO, wants special-ed treatment as our untouchable affirmative action candidate)
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To: mware

Here’s the link for Russia Today

http://streaming.visionip.tv/Russia_Today

VirginiaMom


249 posted on 08/08/2008 7:07:17 AM PDT by VirginiaMom (lost in the wilderness)
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To: Grampa Dave; BIGLOOK; LonePalm

Bet pizza delivery is constant at the puzzle palace today.


250 posted on 08/08/2008 7:07:18 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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To: G.Mason

They could refuel in Iraq, but the stockpiles of heavy bombs and antiarmor weapons they need are not in Iraq, they are back at the bomber bases.


251 posted on 08/08/2008 7:09:07 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ETL

Over Georgia’s survival as an independent country, maybe. But I can’t imagine many in Europe being willing to take a stand against Russia over South Ossetia.

With words, sure. But with military forces? No, Georgia had better not be counting on much help from Europe.


252 posted on 08/08/2008 7:09:06 AM PDT by Enchante (If oil was botox then Nancy Pelosi would have us drilling everywhere!!! (hat tip, STARWISE))
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To: AppyPappy

Not the Georgians...

About 82% of Georgia’s population identified themselves as Georgian Orthodox in 2002 (the remainder being Muslim, Russian Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Catholic and Other). In 2002, it was reported that there were 35 dioceses and about 600 churches within the Georgian Orthodox Church, served by 730 priests. The Georgian Orthodox Church has around 5 million members around the world (of whom about 3,670,000 live within Georgia) and administers, as of 2007, 35 eparchies (dioceses).


253 posted on 08/08/2008 7:09:33 AM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: Grampa Dave

I’m finding most of my stuff via another website ... it is noted there as all current ...

but, there is alot of “stuff” swirling, so who knows.

The Su-25 was originally tagged as a Russian Su-25 being shot down .... others jumped the claim saying the pic had been up for hours and the original caption was of a Georgian Su-25 in action against the S. Ossetians.

Alot of fog of war, as there is with any war type breaking news story.


254 posted on 08/08/2008 7:10:29 AM PDT by Mac94
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To: ASA Vet
Ft. Meade has its own Domino's and Poppa Johns.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

255 posted on 08/08/2008 7:10:32 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: Spktyr
B-2s are grounded until they solve why that one crashed last month, remember?

Was that just last month? There was a B-52 that crashed off Guam within the last few weeks, but I saw a report on the B-2 that crashed there in Popular Mechanics that said they figured out what caused it (moisture in the sensors, compensation by ground-crew, then moisture evaporated at take-off and sensors gave erroneous readings - corrective action was to warm the sensors on the ground before calibrating to ensure moisture was not a factor). Thought the B-2s were back in the air by now.

256 posted on 08/08/2008 7:10:40 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS
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To: Mom MD
"I dont know what the muslim population is in Georgia, but if it is significant, could it also cause an upswing in muslim violence around the world in sympathy?"

I doubt it. They are an entirely different kind of "Muslim" More of a blend of Sufism, mixed with old country Bolshevik daily life traditions, 50 years behind modern methods.

257 posted on 08/08/2008 7:10:58 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Spktyr

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7548715.stm


258 posted on 08/08/2008 7:11:56 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E. That spells free. freerepublic.com baby)
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To: mware
Looks like Czechoslovakia in 1967.
259 posted on 08/08/2008 7:13:33 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E. That spells free. freerepublic.com baby)
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To: ASA Vet; BIGLOOK

“Bet pizza delivery is constant at the puzzle palace today.”

TGIF went out the window with this dust up.

Pizza, gallons of coffee, and tons of Roll Aids, Zantac and the Purple Pill will be consumed at No Such Agency instead of a nice weekend at the shore or the beginning of a vacation.


260 posted on 08/08/2008 7:15:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Obama, the Oreo CINO, wants special-ed treatment as our untouchable affirmative action candidate)
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