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2008-10-07 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia Accuses Georgia of New Hostilities

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Posted by Steve White 2008-10-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The colder it becomes Putin and his KGB thugs will invent another excuse for re-invading Georgia, with the objective of seizing the energy pipeline crossing southern Georgia.

Posted by Mark Espinola 2008-10-07 03:34|| 2008-10-07 03:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds familiar:: int. observers (of some kind) in, terrs get out of their holes.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-10-07 13:49|| 2008-10-07 13:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Are they classified as terrorists if they're in their own country?

No wait - you're Russian.

Never mind. I just answered my own question.

Posted by Milton Fandango 2008-10-07 15:09|| 2008-10-07 15:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Are they classified as terrorists if they're in their own country?

Why don't you ask Bill Ayers?

No---wait, you're an ethical moron.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-10-07 15:23|| 2008-10-07 15:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Remember, Putin is everything the crazed left says about Bush. I wouldn't put it past him to send his wetwork men in to kill a few conscripts to A) undermine his uppity underling Medvedev and B) blacken the reputation of the Georgians. Did they ever find the terrorists who blew up those Russian apartment buildings in the run-up to the second Chechnyan war?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-10-07 15:33|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-10-07 15:33|| Front Page Top

#6 You're comparing the proverbial appples and oranges.

Mr. Ayers, if I understand correctly, is a domestic terrorist, and engaged in violent acts against his own government.

Also, if I understand correctly, the Russians invaded Georgia. Thus, if there are Georgians engaged in hostilities, however unwise and counter-productive, it is against a foreign force. Hence they could not exactly be classified as domestic terrorists, unless you consider Georgia to be part of Russia.

And hence, my jibe.

Posted by Milton Fandango 2008-10-07 15:39|| 2008-10-07 15:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe we'd consider Ayers an "insurgent".

Posted by tu3031 2008-10-07 15:47|| 2008-10-07 15:47|| Front Page Top

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