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- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -9/+131BREAKING: youre not a television newsroom. breaking can only apply to being live. ***** it.
- sjclovesjc, on 08/15/2008, -13/+105BREAKING? This story is just gaining popularity on Digg, but it was submitted hours ago.
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -5/+87*sigh* I think there should be an automatic burial process for articles that start with "BREAKING:".
- BlaqReaper, on 08/15/2008, -8/+77 Bush said Russia's invasion of Georgia has "damaged its credibility."
Does anyone else see the irony in that? - SemiSarcastic, on 08/15/2008, -6/+69John Madden: SO GEORGIA AND RUSSIA ARE SIGNING A CEASE FIRE AGREEMENT AND ARE GOING TO CARRY OUT A CEASE FIRE. S-S-SO YOU PUTIN OVER THERE (circles once) YOU GOT SAAKASHVILI OVER HERE (circles once) A-A-AND YOU CAN SEE YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SEE THESE GUYS YOU KNOW THEY'RE GUYS HERE AND THEY'RE PUTTING THEIR SIGNATURES HERE (circles three times). B-B-BUT THEN YOU KNOW THERE'S A TANK OVER THERE (circles three times) AND SOME PLANES OVER HERE (circles seven times) THERE ARE SOME EXPLOSIONS (begins to draw explosions) AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL MAYBE A MUSHROOM CLOUD (begins to draw one).
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -8/+54http://img.lulz.net/src/georgia.jpg
- delirium, on 08/15/2008, -5/+42So what happens to South Ossetia? Does it remain with Georgia?
- emuprophet, on 08/15/2008, -14/+51Best hypocrisy of the article:
In Washington, President Bush chided Russia on Friday for Cold War-style behavior, saying, "bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century." - inactive, on 08/15/2008, -8/+44Cease fire my-ass...
- SemiSarcastic, on 08/15/2008, -2/+29John Madden: YOU SEEM TO HAVE A HUGE RASH GROWING ON YOUR ASS, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD USE? BOOM! TOUGH ACTIN TINACTIN!
- SitPoMk, on 08/15/2008, -18/+43-Georgia attacked
-Russia called for a cease fire in the UN
-Russia was ignored
-Russia invaded
-Everyone yells for a cease fire
-It is finally reached far too late - Grummond, on 08/15/2008, -7/+31You left out the best part:
-US media portrays Russia as villains stuck in the last century, attacking another, sovereign nation. - JinnRikki, on 08/15/2008, -4/+28Especially if that someone is knee deep in illegal invasions of it's own.
- subterfuge, on 08/15/2008, -3/+26as far as i'm concerned, south ossetia has been its own country since the 90's, when they declared independence
- Scynet, on 08/15/2008, -2/+23Since when has "my ass" required a hyphenation?
Just curious, I've seen it a lot lately... - Grummond, on 08/15/2008, -9/+30Didn't McCain tell them nations don't invade other nations in the 21st century?
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -21/+40Georgia started it. If they get wiped off the map so be it. You don't start a war then expect someone to bail you out.
- xpose, on 08/15/2008, -1/+19Finally that Georgia win in volleyball gave them some bargaining power at the table.
- ZeeZee2k, on 08/15/2008, -3/+21in beach volleyball
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -3/+21***** thing sucks!
- delirium, on 08/15/2008, -8/+25You know that declaring yourself independent doesn't make you a nation right?
- kemp34, on 08/15/2008, -5/+22Wow, this is one of the least intelligent comment strings I have seen on digg in a while.
- EtherGnat, on 08/15/2008, -3/+20"Why is digg in love with Russia?"
Why do we have to be in love with Russia to think Georgia (and South Ossetia for that matter) share blame?
South Ossetia went to war with Georgia 17 years ago to gain their independence. While they didn't gain official recognition they have been a de facto independent nation since the cease fire. Are they supposed to just welcome the Georgian government as their leader, despite the fact they in no way have Ossetian interests in mind? Despite the fact Georgia has never had any influence of South Ossetia?
I think the real question is why do you love Georgia so much? There is PLENTY of blame in this situation for all parties involved. - justinx0r, on 08/15/2008, -15/+30As Russian troops are still moving deeper inside of Georgia.
- Telmarine, on 08/15/2008, -3/+17i bet 1000 dollars nobody laughed at your piss poor attempt at getting attention
- zofsky, on 08/15/2008, -8/+21Kosovo gets independence even though they're Albanians who should just move to Albania for freedom, yet Russia supports South Ossetia and Abkhazia in their independence because they're a unique culture and they're suddenly the bad guy in this?
SundayBrunch is right, Sashkavilli just attempted to start WW3 by whining and complaining over his own actions. HE chose to attack South Ossetia, knowing that Russia would be provoked to war. HE chose to retaliate rather than surrender to Russia and make himself look innocent. Then he goes on western media and bitches about how the United States were not fast enough in their actions to defend his country.
Where was President Bush and the European Union when Georgia bombed and shelled South Ossetia? No where. Only Russia stood up to it. Sashkavilli has been spewing lies from his mouth all week. Why is our country FORCED to support him?
Times like these makes me wish I wasn't an American citizen. - thegrantman, on 08/15/2008, -2/+15Pay the man his $1000.
- MattNF, on 08/15/2008, -4/+17We'll do it live!
- NATED066, on 08/15/2008, -7/+19Russia: Sure we'll withdraw our troops... any minute now... anny minute now...
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -9/+21One would hope not considering 90% of them desire independence from Georgia and alliance with Russia:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6140448.stm - SundayBrunch, on 08/15/2008, -19/+31This Georgian president is a piece of *****. I don't think you people realize that he just tried to start WW3. Invades an autonomous region and starts killing civilians, then pretends it was an invasion when russia steps in. He actually thought israel or US would go to war over his ***** country with some ***** pipelines. what a piece of garbage.
- WishItWerePaul, on 08/15/2008, -3/+15SitPoMk misspoke. there was no fire to cease. while the russian peace keepers were there situation was more or less latent and well peaceful.
what i think SitPoMk meant, and what is the case, russia called many times for a resolution to the underlying problem which is that South Ossetians wanted independence from Georgia and Georgia wanted that land (but not the Ossetians).
and when i say "Georgia" i really mean Saakashvili, the two peoples had lived there for many centuries, intermerried etc, no issues to speak of whatsoever.
Abkhazia is a different matter, but they too wanted to separate from Georgia.
but of course noone gave a damn about any of these people, except russia who didnt want any part in it either as long as there's not a hot trouble burning under her arse, which this certainly looked all the while as it was brewing. and indeed we now see that the russians were right.
and so for those who've been under a rock last few days allow me to recap.
the georgians shelled and invaded South Ossetia, an enclave wanting to separate from Georgia, protected by UN mandated russian peace force. they (the georgians) killed a number (being verified now, reports of up to 2000) civilians, 10-15 russian peace keepers, caused devastating damage to the town of Tskhinvali.
the russians sent reinforcements, kicked the georgians out, done as much as possible to deny them the capability of repeating this type of an attack, as best as i can tell, by bombing military air strips, other installations, destroying depots and ammo caches.
all the while Saakashvili cries murder and blames the russians for all the sins under the sun, where the Ossetians all as one beg thanks to the russian army for saving them which indeed they have.
not the impression you get from watching CNN but hey, we learn something new every day: dont trust mass media. - wunksta, on 08/15/2008, -3/+13have a link for russia calling for a cease fire?
- SethEllis, on 08/15/2008, -1/+11The word "BREAKING" can never be used properly on Digg. If you want "BREAKING" news, Digg is not the place to look.
- ZeeZee2k, on 08/15/2008, -2/+11I bet people were just searching for the Georgia bigfoot press conference and this came up. They dugg it anyway.
- delirium, on 08/16/2008, -1/+10Texas, a fascist state? I bet you're a person who's never been outside the US or experience what its like to actually live in an authoritarian country. Texas is not a fascist state you ***** dickwad. You're the ***** reason why Americans have a bad image.
- geoken, on 08/15/2008, -10/+17According to CNN;
"Georgia last week launched a military incursion into South Ossetia to rout separatist rebels. Russia, which supports the separatists, responded the next day, sending tanks across the border into South Ossetia. The conflict quickly spread to other parts of Georgia and to Abkhazia, another breakaway region."
I guess it's harder to make Russia look bad when you include the fact that Georgia basically reduced an entire city to rubble. - inactive, on 08/15/2008, -0/+7Yeah that's called actual democracy as opposed to the bureaucratic state supporting the crony capatalists that neo-cons call "democracy."
Voting and listening to what local people say, the U.S. ought to try it sometime, it would be refreshing and much truer to what the founding fathers intended with New England town meetings for example. - EtherGnat, on 08/15/2008, -0/+7"That does not mean 90% but 90% of those they got to come and vote for something that was controversial."
95% of the population voted. - BESTenemy, on 08/15/2008, -5/+12"The propaganda "bullet points" have already been determined; "Putin is a menace","Putin wants to rebuild the Soviet empire", "Putin is an autocrat". (Unlike our "freedom loving" allies in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt)"
- Mike Whitney - SkittlesUSA, on 08/15/2008, -9/+15THANK YOU. Nobody knows or cares S. Ossetia is part of Georgia.
Georgia can't invade itself. Russia was just looking for a reason to invade Georgia and they found one.
Why is digg in love with Russia? - inactive, on 08/15/2008, -2/+8Not sure, it was my first time typing out "my-ass".
I was not an English major. It just seemed appropriate. - SergioSV, on 08/15/2008, -0/+6Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Georgia must pull out of South Ossetia:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/12/2333 ...
There is some fact of it's war:
http://digg.com/world_news/War_in_Ossetia_and_how_ ...
As result Georgian forces attack more than 2,000 civilians dead in South Ossetia.
Chronicle of events:
- 1 Aug 2008 First South-Osstian civil victims dead from Georgian fire
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- 6 Aug 2008 Georgia started massive shelling of villages near Tshinvali
- 7 Aug 2008 23:30 Georgia started massive shelling of Tshinvali
- 8 Aug 2008 03:00 state minister of Georgia announces that Tshinvali is surrounded by georgian forces.
- 8 Aug 2008 15:00 Tshinvali is demolished. About 1400 ossetians killed
- 8 Aug 2008 16:00 Ossetian forces started counter attack, russian tanks entered Ossetia and fired towards georgian forces, Georgian forces left Tshinvali - ThinkOutTheBox, on 08/15/2008, -4/+10Yea don't expect it to last long with Poland agreeing to host a US missile defense system.
- delirium, on 08/15/2008, -1/+6I am ***** TIRED of the information war being waged by both ***** sides. I ***** can't tell if anything is coming out is the ***** truth anymore or not.
- EtherGnat, on 08/15/2008, -1/+6Incidentally it was 99% of South Ossetians, not 90% that voted for independence. Even if the 4.8% that did not turn had all voted the opposite direction that still means 94.2% supported the referendum.
- superkendall, on 08/15/2008, -5/+10So you're saying capital punishment is OK for nations that make the smallest infraction.
The president of Georgia may have done something wrong, but does that truly justify Russia taking over the whole country? - regeya, on 08/16/2008, -0/+5mrraven200: Heh, I'm glad I re-read that comment. You made my brain asplode, mentioning Ron Paul along with Vermont allying themselves with our Socialist neighbors to the north. :->
For the record, I'm somewhere in the middle: More conservative, want some of the current infrastructure to be dismantled, but I recognize that government intervention and moving some services (such as medical care) into the public realm as a necessary evil. - AndreiOttawa, on 08/15/2008, -0/+5If you don't vote, it's your problem. If you don't support the decision, vote against it.
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -8/+13Then it looks like Georgia is still a part of Russia, huh? Like for the past 200 years? That doesn't count right? It's different...
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