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Georgian army flees in disarray as Russians advance
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| August 11, 2008
| Tony Halpin
Posted on 08/11/2008 1:29:34 PM PDT by brytlea
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I did not see this posted. susie
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:29:34 PM PDT
by
brytlea
To: brytlea
I would have hoped they’d put up more of a fight than this. You’d think they know what it means to be occupied by the Soviets...uh...I mean, the Russkies.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:31:14 PM PDT
by
henkster
(Politics is the art of telling a bigger and more believable lie more often than your opponent)
To: henkster
I’m guessing they didn’t want to see too many civilian casualties. Perhaps they were cirle around behind the Soviet columns and cut them off.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:32:54 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: henkster
They have a force of roughly 14,000 military personnel. I think that includes all the services put together.
The odds for them are... not good.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:32:58 PM PDT
by
Rick.Donaldson
(http://www.transasianaxis.com - Please visit for latest on DPRK/Russia/China/et al.)
To: brytlea
it was clear that it would only be a matter of time until
the georgian military would lose this fight. to be fair they did never had a chance.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:33:56 PM PDT
by
austrian
To: brytlea
Maybe they see the stupidity of their corrupt president and are unwilling to die for him.
To: brytlea
Fox Reporting the Russians have taken the Oil Port of POTI, as well...
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:34:36 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Beware Of False Prophets/ME-ssiahs Selling Hopium....)
To: henkster
They will need every man and every bullet when they have to defend Tblisi.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:34:55 PM PDT
by
SolidWood
(God Bless Georgia and grant them victory over Russia!)
To: henkster
Discretion is the better part of valor............
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:35:47 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
To: brytlea
I have already posted this a few places, but I got an email from a friend in Batumi who said Russian soldiers are advancing and are in Mtskheta and heading for Tbilisi.
He is terrified and shocked. Me too.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:35:49 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Tavisuplebas dideba!)
To: henkster
A COMPLETE Army of 26,000, with most of it’s best officers and NCO’s in Iraq...
84 70’s-Era t-70 tanks, and a few German Wheeled AFV’s versus 1,000+ Russian T-80’s and IFV’s.
A few large artillery pieces, without the AA to protect them, in the face of complete Russian Air Superiority...
Not good odds for even a running withdrawal...
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:37:17 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Beware Of False Prophets/ME-ssiahs Selling Hopium....)
To: MarMema
What will Bush do?..............
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:37:28 PM PDT
by
redstateconfidential
(A man who lets his friends down, is no man at all.)
To: tcrlaf
I’m trying to find confirmation of this.(also heard in on FOX) Have you seen anything anywhere else about Poti being taken?
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:38:42 PM PDT
by
leilani
To: brytlea
Hmm, Turkey has been strangely silent. I doubt that they would risk open war with Russia over that pipeline.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:38:59 PM PDT
by
Xenophon450
(I guess I'll never know, some things under the sun can never be understood...)
To: tcrlaf
Yes, this is what a friend just told me in email.
I am ready to throw up now.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:39:04 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Tavisuplebas dideba!)
To: henkster
My friend said Saakashevili is on tv telling them everything will be ok, to stay in their homes, and that he loves them.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:40:07 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Tavisuplebas dideba!)
To: tcrlaf
I believe the Georgian forces have arrived back from Iraq today.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:40:17 PM PDT
by
Xenophon450
(I guess I'll never know, some things under the sun can never be understood...)
To: austrian
By sheer numbers you are surely correct.
susie
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:41:05 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
To: brytlea
We have Americans in Tbilisi, some working privately, some contracted, and a US ambassador as well.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:41:12 PM PDT
by
MarMema
(Tavisuplebas dideba!)
To: tcrlaf
Yeah, might have been a bit more than I quoted. I was reading some old data too.
And those in Iraq are enroute home. 1000 to be as close to precise as I can without knowing exactly what’s on the C-17s at this time.
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posted on
08/11/2008 1:41:19 PM PDT
by
Rick.Donaldson
(http://www.transasianaxis.com - Please visit for latest on DPRK/Russia/China/et al.)
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