Russia invades Georgia again...
DZHAVA, Georgia - Russia sent columns of tanks and reportedly bombed Georgian air bases Friday after Georgia launched a major military offensive to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, threatening to ignite a broader conflict.
Hundreds of civilians were reported dead in the worst outbreak of hostilities since the province won defacto independence in a war against Georgia that ended in 1992. Witnesses said the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali was devastated.
"I saw bodies lying on the streets, around ruined buildings, in cars," said Lyudmila Ostayeva, 50, who had fled with her family to Dzhava, a village near the border with Russia. "It's impossible to count them now. There is hardly a single building left undamaged."
the rest of this article is on
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_south_ossetia
I'm not anti-American, nor am I overly pro, but found it quite ironic that the biggest western voice of concern came from Bush..., I can imagine so many people feeling that is a case of the poacher being made the game-keeper!
I hope for all the innocents unexpectedly involved that this escalation is stopped quickly, though I can't imagine Russia listening much to the US.
Torque
you are right southland ! we forgot Mao !!
i believe psychiatrists have a real subject here lol....
Don't wait for the last judgment it takes place every day.
"Albert Camus "
Usually dictators are also in the minority of the xenophobes. Talk about complexes. . .
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so sad!
oh QS... i was being sarcastic - Russia I know will never give independence to Chechnya... oil line...but they want it for Ossetia...oil line
oh no, oryx..
you asked, "if Ossetia gets independence do you think Russia will grant independence to Chechnya?"..
..so i answered: "i am not sure about what's going on there" ..
but now i read it again, and i think, maybe you asked it modern wonderer?
sorry for misunderstanding here.. :)
you forgot Lenin..
..it's not about being bad.. it's a revenge for being short..
it does not apply to women though. Petite women are lovely, loving and lovable… :)
Sorry I didnt quite understand your post... I hope I haven't upset you....
qatarisun, you are right, lenin, and franco in spain, and mussolini in italy, the crasy guy in north korea also is a midget!
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
i am not sure what's exactly going on there... sorry, cannot discuss this subject with you, as have no opinion on this matter..
oryx, strange how most of the tyrans seems to be short sized! hitler,stalin,napoleon, seems that you need to be a short man to be a really bad one !
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
Albert Einstein
of course the museum is hilarious in a 'noir' sort of way.
All these strange presents from other dubious leaders... like a big silver ashtray with a big silver tank and a pair of clogs with Stalins image carved into them....
he was only a short git aswell about 5ft4
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7042807.stm
take the time to read...hilarious..
Boney M massive in communist times... went to albania...what was the first song i heard? 15 mins after crossing the border?
By the Rivers of Bablyon...
oryx, yeah, he was nicknamed the georgian butcher, says it all! he even did not hesitate to deport people from his own birth place .
"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
Albert Einstein
show its equal...
I doubt whether Russia will actually invade..
Stalin was from Georgia.... I went to his birthplace and the museum........ freaky...
So is Chechnya....oil pipeline
ok...so if Ossetia gets independence do you think Russia will grant independence to Chechnya?
Please if another country supported the latter Russia would blow them to smithereens.... oh please.
all about oil, pipeline from the caspian, and access to the caspian sea.
Russia never admited to loose georgia to the west as it considerer it its back yard.
same as in ukraine
Don't wait for the last judgment it takes place every day.
"Albert Camus "
yeah.. it looks like russia wants to show the world its power again...
I was just there Eid last year...
Grief...
Georgia is lovely....stunning...everything, the language the people, the food, the countryside, the architecture...
Deary me .... I really could cheerfully slap someone for this neo-cold war behaviour