"I got tired of defending these two wars to the liberals and saw that there were a bunch of holes and that there is a war for oil element. You can’t judge Russia when the US Gov is doing the exact saaam"... *ZOT!*
Posted on 08/09/2008 1:30:46 AM PDT by HAL9000
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GORI, Georgia, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Russia said it had driven Georgian forces from the capital of South Ossetia on Saturday as part of an operation to force Georgia to accept peace in its breakaway region."Tactical groups have fully liberated Tskhinvali from the Georgian military and have started pushing Georgian units beyond the zone of peacekeepers responsibility," Tass quoted Ground Forces commander Vladimir Boldyrev as saying.
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(Excerpt) Read more at alertnet.org ...
1,500 Civilians Reported Killed in Georgia Battle
Russian troops are slaughtering civilians==
You didn’t understand. Accually those civilian casualties happened during one night mostly. Night form 7 to 8 of August when Georgians attacked town Tskhinval. Those deathes wre casued by GEORGIANS not Russians.
You duped by MSM propaganda sir.
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HUH!!!??? rewriting history are we?
No I am not. This what the CIA say about the take over of Georgia by Stalin:
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"Subsequently, the Ottoman and Persian empires competed for influence in the region. Georgia was absorbed into the Russian Empire in the 19th century. Independent for three years (1918-1921) following the Russian revolution, it was forcibly incorporated into the USSR until the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991."
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gg.html
He’s gone. RIP Transformers!
Cool. Let's restore all regions of the world back to their political status over one hundred years ago. And why stop there? Let's go to the 1800's and totally break apart Georgia and many other countries of the world.
How brilliant you are.
Most South Ossetians hold Russian passports...got it
Most Mexicans living in this country hold Mexican citizenship.
Get it?
I doubt it.
I question the conservative claim (unless it's the old Soviet definition of conservative, which means you're a Stalinist), but I can speak unequivocally that he is very, very zotted. And we don't need a dictionary or context to parse that.
"I got tired of defending these two wars to the liberals and saw that there were a bunch of holes and that there is a war for oil element. You can’t judge Russia when the US Gov is doing the exact saaam"... *ZOT!*
Please check the range of Iran's long-range missiles before making such irresponsible statements. It covers most of Europe. Shahab-4.
The breakup of the USSR had two purposes - 1) to develop a “capitalistic” economy without admitting the economic failure of Communism and 2) to get each of their former republics admitted to the UN as independent countries thus giving the leaders more votes and clout than they had as the USSR.
However, the former republics were not to misunderstand their “independence” and stray from the fold. Some have and are being forcefully returned.
Under the new Capitalism all the Communists Oligarchs took control of the key lucrative sectors of the economy so it is still run as before but with the oligarchs becoming wealthy. The Russian mafia is also still intact and even more active.
The breakup of the USSR and the “defeat” of Communism was a ruse.
Long live the Free People of Georgia, especially those sons and daughters who stood side-by-side with us in Iraq.
Yes!
WOW! We should be copying Rusia...BTW how much is Putin worth? How many billions in petro-profits has he skimmed
Soviet Union trying to bring old countries back in their grip?
That is exactly what this reminds me of.
If it is a matter of trust, then the question must be asked: What exactly have we done that would not ony make it reasonable for Russia to believe we will launch an unprovoked nuclear war against them from behind a missile shield?
I see no American actions that could justify that level of mistrust on the part of the Russian government.
Wouldn’t you consider it a threat if Russia positioned major antimissile shield system in Cuba and Mexico which had the potential of nuetralizing our misiles and leaving us vulnerable to a Russian first strike? That is exactly how Russia feels about us positioning a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.
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