August 22, 2008
In 2004 John Laughland, a trustee of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group, wrote an article in the Guardian about Georgian President Saakashvili. It presents a sharp contrast to statements from John McCain and the US administration which hail the US-educated Georgian leader as stalwart defender...
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Stalin designed Georgia current borders. Stalin, himself half Ossetian and half Georgian, combined Abkhaziya and half of Ossetia with Georgia and consciously dividing the people of Ossetia into two parts. To solve this ethnic problem, Georgia decided to unite the two separated parts of South and Nor...
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"The goals of the United States have been to safeguard the lives of Americans"- George H.W. Bush, 1989"My duty as President right from the outset was to protect our fellow citizens."- Dmitry Medvedev, 2008US Presidential candidate John McCain should know that there is nothing unusual about a super...
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NY Times reports on an epidemic of delusional thinking in Georgia:It was the question of the day. As Russian forces massed Sunday on two fronts, Georgians were heading south with whatever they could carry. When they met Western journalists, they all said the same thing: Where is the United States? W...
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Now Poland is open to a nuclear strike !! I think the Russians are not bluffing. I do not have to guess that the West and the U.S are taking that threat seriously because if it happens and the Russians are putting for sure this as possible scenario,there will be a WWIII again in the world. G.W Bu...
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The Washington Post reported that McCain's top foreign policy advisor, Scheunemann, was acting as a paid consultant to Georgian President until quite recently.On April 17, 2008, McCain spoke on the phone with Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili about Russian efforts to gain leverage over two of Ge...
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For the past two days I have watched with disdain, the excessive use of force by the Russian military against civilian targets in the Democratic Republic of Georgia. On Sunday night, watching late edition on CNN, President Saakashvili gave a pitiful request for help. I mean, the guy looked stressed,...
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At-Largely comments on the ongoing war between Russia and Georgia, departing from increasingly critical US statements, and concludes that this is not the right time for the West to further escalate the conflict. ...
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The 8th Circle publishes relevant excerpts of statements by US presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, finding their positions basically the same. ...
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The Soviet Union was once a mighty empire, controlling large chunks of land in Europe and Asia, and giving the West a mighty enemy. Then it all fell apart; the individual states (many of them incorporated by force) wanted their freedom, and Boris Yeltsin wanted his own Russia to rule, and so the So...
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