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Attack on Georgia Gives Boost To Big U.S. Weapons Programs; Conflict With Russia Bolsters the Case For More Funding
Post Date: 2008-08-17 00:13:54 by TwentyTwelve
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Wall Street Journal Article Attack on Georgia Gives Boost To Big U.S. Weapons Programs Conflict With Russia Bolsters the Case For More Funding By AUGUST COLE August 16, 2008; Page A6 Russia's attack on Georgia has become an unexpected source of support for big U.S. weapons programs, including flashy fighter jets and high-tech destroyers, that have had to battle for funding this year because they appear obsolete for today's conflicts with insurgent opponents. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has spent much of the year attempting to rein in some of the military's most expensive and ambitious weapons systems -- like the $143 million F-22 Raptor jet -- because he thinks they are ...
Russians 'advancing on Tbilisi'
Post Date: 2008-08-16 22:17:18 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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Russians 'advancing on Tbilisi' Georgian captives are reportedly being used to clear debris in South Ossetia [AFP] Russian forces are advancing towards Tbilisi, according to the Georgian government, despite a fragile ceasefire being agreed by the two sides. The reports on Sunday come hours after Russian troops were seen beginning to withdraw from Kaspi and Igoeti, towns close to the Georgian capital. Fighters from the breakaway region of Abkhazia, who are backed by Moscow, have also taken control of 13 Georgian villages and a hydropower plant, according to the Tbilisi government. Jonah Hull, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Tblisi, said: "This is indeed disturbing news. ...
Bush tells Russia to get out of Georgia
Post Date: 2008-08-16 18:00:03 by Rotara
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2 hours, 19 minutes ago CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush warned Russia on Saturday against trying to pry loose two separatist regions in Georgia and said Moscow must end military operations in the West-leaning democracy that once was part of the Soviet empire. Bush told reporters at his Texas ranch that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's signing of a cease-fire plan with Georgia was "a hopeful step." But Russia's vision of Georgia without the provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia was a nonstarter, the president said. "These regions are a part of Georgia and the international community has repeatedly made clear that they will remain so," said Bush, Secretary ...
Paul Craig Roberts on Russia Today: Washington Sanctioned Assault on S. Ossetia (video)
Post Date: 2008-08-16 12:15:27 by christine
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President to address nation on Georgia
Post Date: 2008-08-15 07:58:23 by RickyJ
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President to make a "Rose Garden" address to the world at 8:15am EDST on the situation in Georgian Republic.
The Lessons of Endless War
Post Date: 2008-08-15 06:29:34 by Ada
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[Note for TomDispatch Readers: Andrew Bacevich will discuss his new book – and the limits of American power in the Bush era – for a full hour on Bill Moyers Journal, Friday, Aug. 15. Don't miss it. If you're watching the Olympics, TiVo it or look for a repeat.] To the problem of an overstretched, over-toured military, there is but one answer in Washington. Both presidential candidates (along with just about every other politician in our nation's capital) are on record wanting to significantly expand the Army and the Marines. In his remarkable new book, The Limits of Power, The End of American Exceptionalism, Andrew Bacevich suggests a solution to the American ...
WAR ALERT!!! [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-08-14 22:16:56 by christine
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This is going to be quick and dirty today. No cute cartoons. No philosophizing. We haven't time for any of that today. I believe we are on the verge of the outbreak of World War III. Right now. If I'm wrong, then so be it. I'll apologize for being overreactive later. Too much hangs in the balance if I am right. Treat it as an exercise if you like. A practice for when the real thing happens, because you can be sure the real thing will happen ... and soon. For those who follow my writings and know just how right I usually am, be advised that I consider this to be very likely in the very near term (within the next week or two), highly likely within the next month or two and dead ...
FALSE FLAG TERRORISM TO BE BLAMED ON IRAN: PETER DALE SCOTT
Post Date: 2008-08-14 12:06:24 by texaslvr77
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PClLsVhEcw0
Massive US Naval Armada Heads For Iran
Post Date: 2008-08-14 11:30:38 by Horse
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Operation Brimstone ended only one week ago. This was the joint US/UK/French naval war games in the Atlantic Ocean preparing for a naval blockade of Iran and the likely resulting war in the Persian Gulf area. The massive war games included a US Navy supercarrier battle group, an US Navy expeditionary carrier battle group, a Royal Navy carrier battle group, a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine plus a large number of US Navy cruisers, destroyers and frigates playing the "enemy force". The lead American ship in these war games, the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN71) and its Carrier Strike Group Two (CCSG-2) are now headed towards Iran along with the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN76) and its ...
Russia mourns victims of Ossetian bloodshed
Post Date: 2008-08-14 00:39:12 by Rotara
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Russia mourns victims of Ossetian bloodshed
US troops to fly in to Georgia
Post Date: 2008-08-14 00:05:53 by Rotara
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 ReutersGeorge Bush makes a statement today on the situation in Georgia, standing alongside with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington The US is to send troops to embattled Georgia in the form of a humanitarian aid exercise, President George Bush announced today. Mr Bush said military planes would deliver supplies in a move which would put American forces in the heart of the region. The president said he was concerned that Russia might be violating the cease-fire in Georgia and he expected all Russian forces to withdraw. He is also sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Paris for talks with EU peacemakers and then to Georgia to ...
'US refuses Israel weapons to attack Iran'
Post Date: 2008-08-13 23:29:17 by DeaconBenjamin
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JERUSALEM: The United States has turned down Israeli requests for military hardware to help it prepare for a possible attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, a frontpage report in Israel's Haaretz newspaper said on Wednesday. The unsourced report said the Americans had warned Israel against carrying out any such attack and had refused to supply offensive military hardware. Instead they had offered to improve the Jewish state's defenses against surface-to-surface missiles. Interviewed on Israeli Army Radio, defense minister Ehud Barak did not deny the Haaretz story, but refused to discuss it. "It would not be right to talk about these things," Barak said. The west accuses ...
Bush: Why Don't You Shut Up?
Post Date: 2008-08-13 18:26:29 by CadetD
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english.pravda.ru/opinion...-2008/106067-bushshutup-0
Georgia: atrocity claims as bodies burn in street
Post Date: 2008-08-13 12:46:59 by Rotara
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The bodies of dead Georgian fighters were today being burned in the streets of the war-ravaged capital of South Ossetia as claims emerged that civilians were targeted in last week’s assault. Residents contacted by The Times on the phone from Moscow alleged that Georgian troops had killed women and children, although their claims could not be verified. Parts of the town of Tskhinvali were still in flames several days after the Georgian attack last Thursday and the fierce fighting that followed the Russian counteroffensive. Russia said that it was gathering evidence for charges of genocide against Georgia, accusing it of driving 30,000 refugees out of South Ossetia. Georgia ...
Using Georgia to Target Russia
Post Date: 2008-08-13 06:01:45 by Stephen Lendman
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Using Georgia to Target Russia - by Stephen Lendman After the Soviet Union's 1991 dissolution, Georgia's South Ossetia province broke away and declared its independence. So far it remains undiplomatically recognized by UN member states. It's been traditionally allied with Russia and wishes to reunite with Northern Ossetes in the North Ossetia-Alania Russian republic. Nothing so far is in prospect, but Russia appears receptive to the idea. And for Abkhazia as well, Georgia's other breakaway province. The conflict also has implications for Transdniestria, the small independent Russian-majority part of Moldova bordering Ukraine, and for Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan. ...
Russian Cameraman: CNN Aired Misleading Footage
Post Date: 2008-08-12 23:00:32 by TwentyTwelve
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Russian Cameraman: CNN Aired Misleading Footage Broadcaster showed Georgian forces attacking South Ossetia, claimed it was Russians attacking Gori Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, August 12, 2008 CNN is airing misleading footage of the war between Georgia and Russia, skewing public opinion in favor of the Georgians, according to a Russia Today cameraman interviewed this morning. The Russia Today satellite TV company aired the interview on its English language news channel but the story is yet to appear on the Internet or in any other news outlet. The Russian cameraman charged that CNN had used his footage of Georgian forces attacking Russian civilians in Tskhinvali, the ...
Georgia Crisis Highlights the True Nature of NATO
Post Date: 2008-08-12 19:20:58 by buckeye
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Georgia Crisis Highlights the True Nature of NATO Written by Patrick Krey Tuesday, 12 August 2008 05:22 While Senator McCain makes bold statements about the situation in South Ossetia, there is more going on behind the scenes than the mainstream media would have you believe. Russian troops in Abkhazia on August 10 prepare to invade Georgia.The unfolding crisis in Georgia gave Senator McCain another opportunity to show off his alleged foreign policy prowess and “talk tough” on the topic of Russia. Senator McCain read a prepared statement in his typically hawkish and interventionist tone: NATO's North Atlantic Council should convene in emergency session to ...
CNN blamed for using misleading war video
Post Date: 2008-08-12 17:18:12 by Rotara
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American broadcaster CNN has been accused of using the wrong pictures in their coverage of the conflict in South Ossetia. A Russian cameraman says footage of wrecked tanks and ruined buildings, which was purported to have been filmed in the town of Gori, in fact showed the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali. Gori was said to be about to fall under the control of the Russian army but the cameraman says the video was actually shot in Tskhinvali, which had been flattened by Georgian shelling. Aleksandr Zhukov, from the Russiya Al-Yaum channel, said: “When we arrived and news came that Gori was being shelled, I saw my footage. I said: that’s not Gori! That’s Tskhinvali. Having ...
US, allies weigh punishment for Russia
Post Date: 2008-08-12 14:56:21 by TwentyTwelve
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US, allies weigh punishment for Russia By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer 17 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Scrambling to find ways to punish Russia for its invasion of pro-Western Georgia, the United States and its allies are considering expelling Moscow from an exclusive club of wealthy nations and canceling an upcoming joint NATO-Russia military exercise, Bush administration officials said Tuesday. But with little leverage in the face of an emboldened Moscow, Washington and its friends have been forced to face the uncomfortable reality that their options are limited to mainly symbolic measures, such as boycotting Russian-hosted meetings and events, that may have little or no long-term ...
Dr. David Duke Exposes the Zionist Role Behind the Russia-Georgia War
Post Date: 2008-08-12 14:43:20 by Liberate Jim Traficant
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Dr. David Duke Exposes the Zionist Role Behind the Russia-Georgia War!In the introduction to his Monday night radio program David Duke speaks on how Israelis have prompted this war and how Israeli Partisans high up in the Georgia Government did the bidding of Israel by launching the attacks on South Ossetia. He also shows how the Jewish extremist influence in media is so great that many people have the mistaken impression that Russia started this war even though Georgia attacked South Ossetia where Russians, by international agreement, have had peacekeepers there for years in the overwhelming Russian region. Georgia chose the time of the Olympics to launch this murderous aggression. ...
Russian President orders halt to Georgia offensive
Post Date: 2008-08-12 08:44:42 by TwentyTwelve
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Russian President orders halt to Georgia offensive Tuesday, 12 August 2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called a halt to his country's military campaign against Georgia this morning. In a televised address, Mr Medvedev said the security of Russian peacekeepers and civilians in South Ossetia had been restored. "The aggressor has been punished and suffered very significant losses. It's military has been disorganised," he added. However, Mr Medvedev also said that the Russian military would respond to "any emerging hotbeds of resistance or any aggressive actions". French President Nicolas Sarkozy is visiting the region today in an effort to broker a ...
The American Military Crisis
Post Date: 2008-08-12 06:47:02 by Ada
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All you really need to know is that, at Robert Gates' Pentagon, they're still high on the term "the Long War." It's a phrase that first crept into our official vocabulary back in 2002 but was popularized by CENTCOM commander John Abizaid in 2004 – already a fairly long (war-)time ago. Now, Secretary of Defense Gates himself is plugging the term, as he did in April at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, quoting no less an authority than Leon Trotsky: "What has been called the Long War is likely to be many years of persistent, engaged combat all around the world in differing degrees of size and intensity. This generational campaign cannot be wished away ...
Mikheil Saakashvili Vetoed - Russian-Georgia conflict has grown into Russian-American - Russia suggests a regime change in Georgia
Post Date: 2008-08-12 01:35:49 by Rotara
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Mikheil Saakashvili Vetoed // Russia suggests a regime change in Georgia Russian-Georgia conflict has grown into Russian-American Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has openly accused the United States of supporting Georgia. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has warned that “Russian aggression must not go unanswered.” At the same time, Washington accused Moscow of trying to overthrow the regime of Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia. Kommersant has learned that Moscow is indeed pressing for the ouster of the Georgian president. The Russian Foreign Ministry has officially refused to carry on a dialog with him and, as Russian permanent representative to NATO Dmitry Rogozin ...
U.S. Military Instructors Command Hirelings in Georgia
Post Date: 2008-08-12 01:25:47 by Rotara
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Thousands of mercenaries are fighting for Georgia in this burning conflict with South Ossetia. They are commanded by the U.S. military instructors, RIA Novosti reported with reference to a high-ranked officer of Russia’s military intelligence. “From 2,500 to 3,000 mercenaries fight against Russia’s peacekeepers on behalf of Georgia,” the unnamed source said. Amid them are the natives of Ukraine, some Baltic states and the Caucasus regions. The U.S. military instructors directly command and coordinate actions of mercenaries without being involved in actual fighting, the source specified. According to intelligence data, there are roughly 1,000 military instructors of ...
Russia moves further into Georgian territory
Post Date: 2008-08-12 00:32:51 by Rotara
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TBILISI - Russian troops launched attacks further into Georgian territory today and the Tbilisi government said its soldiers had been forced to retrench closer to the capital. Russian forces moved briefly into the west Georgian city of Senaki to prevent Georgian troops from regrouping for attacks on the breakaway region of South Ossetia -- the cause of the worsening conflict -- the Russian defence ministry was quoted by domestic news agencies as saying. The Russian troops later withdrew from Senaki, Russian and Georgian officials said, with Tbilisi saying its military base there has been destroyed. "Russian forces have destroyed Senaki military base and have left it," a ...
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