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Title: U.S. concedes Georgia attack attack in South Ossetia was a mistake
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Published: Nov 8, 2008
Author: David Gollust
Post Date: 2008-11-09 12:30:53 by Rotara
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Comments: 12
The U.S. State Department said Friday the Georgian attack in South Ossetia last August was a mistake, but that it did not justify Russia's large-scale intervention. The comments follow a critical newspaper assessment of the Tbilisi government's role in the crisis. In its most specific comments on the subject to date, the State Department says Georgian leaders made a mistake when they attacked the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, in August. But officials here say overall culpability for the war may never be known, and the focus now should be on getting Georgia, and especially Russia, to heed ceasefire obligations, and help return the region to stability. The comments follow a New York Times report Friday, which quoted independent military observers as saying Georgian forces indiscriminately shelled Tskhinvali in the early-morning attack August 7, endangering civilians, OSCE monitors and Russian peacekeepers. The newspaper said the monitors' account calls into question Georgia's assertion that the attack was precisely aimed at military targets, and defensive following South Ossetian provocations and a Russian military buildup. The Tskhinvali attack was followed by large-scale intervention by Russian forces, who routed Georgia troops and ended up holding large sections of Georgian territory beyond the disputed areas of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. At a news briefing, State Department Deputy Spokesman Robert Wood said the Georgia attack was mistaken, but did not justify the Russian response. He said the United States in the run-up to the war had urged both Georgia and Russia not to provoke, or be provoked, by the other side. He said the U.S. stress now is not assigning blame, but returning stability to the region. 'I think we need to get away from looking at who did what first, because, as I said, I don't think we'll ever really get to the bottom of that,' said Wood. 'The important thing is for us to move forward, and that's what we're trying to do, in terms of trying to reconstruct Georgia, bring about stability to the general region. And that's what we are going to focus on.' A senior official here said the Bush administration is disinclined to fix blame for the war, saying it could inflame matters and that it doesn't help, as he put it, to go back and re-fight history. The United States has credited Moscow with adhering to cease-fire commitments to remove troops and checkpoints from Georgian territory beyond the South Ossetia and Abkhazia enclaves, though officials say Russia does not appear to have reduced troop levels in the two areas to pre-conflict numbers. At a donors' conference for Georgia two weeks ago, the United States pledged $1 billion to support the country's economic recovery. The Brussels conference overall raised more than $4 billion in loans and grants for the Tbilisi government.
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#1. To: Rotara (#0)
Reminds me of The Mouse That Roared movie.
I miss Peter Sellers.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Pot meat kettle.
Pot meat kettle. Looks like you have meat on your mind. And I agree. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
LOL! I'm not even going to touch that one. I get in enough trouble as it is.
LOL! I'm not even going to touch that one. I get in enough trouble as it is. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
War 08.08.08. The Art of Betrayal” – is one of the first documentary Internet-films. This is the most outspoken film about the war, that started on the day of opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing, the film about the war, in which tens of Russian peacemaker perished as well as hundreds of peaceful Ossetians; it is the film about the war that turned out to be the doping drug for the rating of the republican candidate to the post of the President of the USA – John McCain. The editorial staff of Russia.ru kept an eye on the progress of this war from the very beginning of Georgian invasion in Tskhinval. The camera crew of the TV-channel came into the destroyed republic on the 12th of August for the first time. This trip resulted in more than 100 footages about the destroyed capital of the South Ossetia, about the burnt villages, dead civilians, about the families left without their houses, about the people, whose relatives are missing. Russia.ru created a large base of experts, commentators and witnesses of the war crimes of the Georgian army. Finally it was decided to carry out a complete investigation of the events in the Caucasus, and the camera crew of Russia.ru headed by the writer Kirill Benediktov went the the South Ossetia again. The stories, that were told to the journalists by the witnesses of these events and by prosecutor's office of the Republic, clearly showed that the film about genocide of the Ossetians just can not have any other name but “The Art of Betrayal”
Jean Seaberg was totally hot...
I take it you are unsupervised today?????
I slip the leash from time to time... To say that they don't make movies like that anymore, would be the understatement of the century.
#2. To: lodwick (#1)
Reminds me of The Mouse That Roared movie.
#3. To: Rotara (#0)
The U.S. State Department said Friday the Georgian attack in South Ossetia last August was a mistake, but that it did not justify Russia's large-scale intervention.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. —Thomas Jefferson, 1802
#4. To: farmfriend (#3)
The U.S. State Department said Friday the Georgian attack in South Ossetia last August was a mistake, but that it did not justify Russia's large-scale intervention.
#5. To: Rotara (#4)
Looks like you have meat on your mind.
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. —Thomas Jefferson, 1802
#6. To: farmfriend (#5)
Looks like you have meat on your mind.
#7. To: Rotara (#0)
But officials here say overall culpability for the war may never be known, and the focus now should be on getting Georgia, and especially Russia, to heed ceasefire obligations, and help return the region to stability.
#8. To: Rotara (#6)
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. —Thomas Jefferson, 1802
#9. To: Rotara, farmfriend, all (#2)
The Trailer - enjoy -
#10. To: All (#9)
#11. To: lodwick (#10)
Jean Seaberg was totally hot...
#12. To: Cynicom (#11)
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