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- laserluke, on 08/10/2008, -10/+393http://fumpr.com/images/ja9649gwx25j20sykl0q.png
- MacSuxWindozSux, on 08/10/2008, -3/+231Editors Note: Ass crack offensive, wounded and dead people are not.
- inactive, on 08/10/2008, -19/+155Wow, Georgia's invasion left 2,000 Ossetians dead and all MSN shows is Georgian casualties, Russian attacks, and destroyed cities. Talk about bias. Guess MSN is no better than CNN.
- sentinel106, on 08/10/2008, -10/+129As much as we as diggers would love to take sides in this, I really think that both sides are to blame for this catastrophe
- L4WL3RS34L, on 08/10/2008, -2/+95#13 says it contains graphic content because it shows part of a guy's ass, even though #10 shows an elderly wounded woman covered in blood.
- krispykreams, on 08/10/2008, -15/+102These are so one-sided... "Oh those poor Georgians..." and what about the roughly 2000 people who were unexpectedly bombed during the night in S. Ossetia? And what about a city that was absolutely demolished before the Russians even got there? The western media is such garbage. If there is anyone who should be held accountable for this idiotic war it is the Georgian president himself.
- sfacets, on 08/10/2008, -0/+83War, regardless of who starts it, affects the people, not the politicians.
- Frejesal, on 08/10/2008, -16/+98WAR!
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WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR
ABSOLUTELY NUTHIN!
UH HUH - inactive, on 08/10/2008, -14/+83Wow after viewing all these pictures NBC are completely friggin bias.
About 90% of these pics show bloody Georgian soldiers wounded, georgian civilians hit by russian blasts, georgian civilians crying because of the russians etc.
How about showing a few pictures of the 20 Russian peace keepers who were murdered by a shellings.
Or more pictures of the 1400 south ossiens who were blown to pieces by the georgian military in a completely unprovoked attack.
Heck that has to be a WARCRIME, you can't bloody target a civilian city and just shell it.
What would america do if the chinese decided to drop a 1000 artillery shells on a small defenseless US town? - c0mputar, on 08/10/2008, -7/+73Ossetia has being trying, one way or another, to break off of Georgia entirely since the fall of the Soviet Union. A few years after the fall, Ossetia declared independence, which was not recognized by Georgia. A poll done in the late 90s had something like a 95-99% approval rate to seperate, and that was with a 95% turnout rate. South Ossetia's population is 90% russian. Such a thing happened in any western country, and you would have the UN and multiple western countries on the side of the Ossetians.
This is just like Tibet and China. However, unlike China, Georgia has taken the step to make this a full-scale war while committing genocide. Comon... they began the attacks right at the start of the Olympics so the rest of the world would be too busy to notice a bunch of Ossetians being blown up, 1500 civilians on the first night to be exact... Civilians who had no way to defend themselves, nor could the 1000 Russian peacekeepers who are completely inadequate to defend against shelling, whom 20 were killed in as well.
Unfortunately for Georgia, they failed to take South Ossetia fast enough and set up there army into the sole chokepoint into the region (the north is one long mountain range, with one entry point from russia which leads into South Ossetia. Now, like any other ***** country in the world, Russia is pouring there army into the region to defend a region which should either be its own country or apart of Russia, and even if neither of that is true, you bet my ass that the USA, of all the countries in the world, would be the first to come to the defense of a helpless democratic region. Unfortunately for Russia, the US has been backed by Georgia in Iraq, and has helped Georgia build there military... and it doesn't help that the media loves to hate on Russia and so the american government will do what it can to please the american ignorance and help Georgia.
In simple steps:
1. South Ossetia has sought independence from Georgia for more then 15 years.
2. Georgia shells South Ossetia killing 1500 civilians and 20 russian peacekeepers in the first night, and more acts of genocide were committed within Ossetian villages later in the day.
3. Russia sends military into region to defend South Ossetia from the aggression.
4. Georgian president, realizing he's *****, seeks help through western intervention.
5. This won't work, and the worst that can happen to Russia is that it gets villainized by the media.
FUTURE POSSIBILITIES FROM THIS POINT.
6. Russia takes over Georgia, or just South Ossetia
7. Russia cuts a deal with Georgia to gain control of the oil pipelines so that Georgia can remain intact.
8. No matter what, South Ossetia is going to fall into the hands of the Russians now, which is probably what the Ossetians want. - wondertwins, on 08/10/2008, -4/+66 ......................................__................................................
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......................f`-,.........`-,/...*-,___,,-~*....,-*......|...`-,.................. - Seann7656, on 08/10/2008, -3/+65Lol, obviously a joke though.
...Hopefully - mayra1201, on 08/10/2008, -2/+59why is a peek at a buttcrack considered "graphic" when we used to look at britney and paris' cooches every day?
- rome747, on 08/10/2008, -3/+56I think Miss South Carolina said it best: "I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to [locate the US on a map] because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don't have maps".
Exactly. - Squeeself, on 08/10/2008, -1/+52Exactly. There's is something REALLY wrong (and not just war & destruction) when someone's natural body parts (not even genitalia) are considered "graphic content," yet bloodied, dying, and dead people are not. As a fairly desensitized person, I found the bloody content extremely disturbing since these are real people. That single warning is so very represntative of what is wrong with morality in the media today...
- fLUx1337, on 08/10/2008, -4/+52Don't be surprised: stupid people do exist, I have seen them with by own eyes.
- inactive, on 08/10/2008, -8/+54Georgia ***** up big time.
- inactive, on 08/10/2008, -14/+58It won't be much of a war.
Russia wins, the end.
Nothing to see here folks, move along. - Dragular, on 08/10/2008, -3/+45You're damn right. Let them blow each other to bits. I'm not allowed to have an opinion on this war, because my country invaded Iraq.
Also, the British, Germans, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Italians, Greeks, Mongolians, are all not allowed to have opinions either, due to the wars their countries have engaged in throughout history.
Also, where's my oil? - kevptim, on 08/10/2008, -1/+42Nothing to do but hope for a ceasefire at this point. Georgia knew that going into South Ossentia would result in Russian retaliation but they did it none-the-less. It's hard to have sympathy for the Georgian government, but all to easy to have sympathy for the thousands of civilians caught in the crossfire.
- inactive, on 08/10/2008, -3/+41I was watching nbc nightly news and they said Georgian aggression was the cause of this war. And they interviewed many Georgians saying that this was their president's fault. Stop turning off the news before it's finished.
- speel, on 08/10/2008, -8/+44Is the south totally retarded?
- kemp34, on 08/10/2008, -0/+32Bring back the duel!
Leaders wanna fight? DUEL. - blackjack75, on 08/10/2008, -1/+32Stop making fun of South Ossetia. They have enough problems already.
- Ymeg, on 08/10/2008, -1/+32You ignorant dolt. How can I not lay blame on anything? You can't seem to understand that we did not order the attacks, but out government did.
Just because our government did something bad, it does not mean that we lack the ability to look at a situation and express our opinion. - sfacets, on 08/10/2008, -4/+34OMFG.
- leha, on 08/10/2008, -2/+32You see the problem is that there are no western journalist in South Ossetia because Georgians are shelling it and it is too dangerous there. So the only place journalists can take pictures is in safe and calm (apart from a few stray bombs that unfortunately killed some civilians) mainland Georgia.
PS: at least 4 russian journalist were wounded in Ossetia since the war started. - inactive, on 08/10/2008, -2/+31Just wow...
So the Georgians commit a war-crime by directly targeting Russian citizens in an unprovoked attack.
They murdered 1500 Russian citizens who had no protection.
The murdered the 20 Russian peace-keepers inside the town who had absolutely no chance of fighting against ranged artillery.
Russia have done the RIGHT thing by swooping into protect its citizens from evil ethnic cleansing.
***** this bias media coverage. - algaeturd, on 08/10/2008, -2/+29Um, that's why they're called photographers and earn a living from it. They put their lives in harm's way so that the truth gets told about conflicts that the media would otherwise lie about and misrepresent in many cases.
Last time I checked, there are a lot of people over there to help. They're called the ***** army. - thesomkid, on 08/10/2008, -2/+28I hate to see all those innocent people in this situation no matter what side they are from. With that said, NBC is taking sides by showing those graphic pictures and they are trying to make Russia look like the bad guy. I am not an expert Russia and Georgia's relationships but Georgia's new president is up to something. He is playing like he is the victim and he is not doing any good for his people by trying to please the west. I would def like to see NBC show graphic pictures from Iraq but I don't think that will ever happen. The American media is B.S. Lets stop all this nonsense and look out for the innocent.
- Halsfield, on 08/10/2008, -0/+26sadly its been done over and over by every major power of the world throughout history. America may have been the most recent but we are definitely not the first or the last
- appleseed1234, on 08/10/2008, -5/+31That's typically what happens when a massive country decides to invade a tiny one.
- sanman, on 08/10/2008, -0/+23Uhh, do you remember how Kosovo has been part of the international borders of Serbia since ancient times, until a recent US-led 'Coalition of the Willing' pried it loose?
Georgia shouldn't be ethnically cleansing the Ossetians. Case closed. - charm803, on 08/10/2008, -0/+22And quickly becoming the poorest.
- ligyron, on 08/10/2008, -4/+25Blond
- algaeturd, on 08/10/2008, -10/+30War is ***** stupid. It amazes me that we're living in 2008 and people haven't figured that out yet.
- siszam, on 08/10/2008, -8/+28 The U.S. has been in Georgia since 2002 training troops.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-9570180.html
http://www.infowars.com/?p=3834
The American elite want to profit from a world war and they don't care where they have to start it. Iran, Iraq, Russia.....wherever. - ZenMojo, on 08/10/2008, -2/+21Funny how the news cycle changed so quickly. Yesterday the news was either ignoring or shrugging off 1400 dead civilians from Georgia's military action. Now they're losing their ***** over "scores" of Ossetians dead from Russian attacks. (Scores, for those uninformed, are multiples of 20. 60 civilians are reported killed and wounded from when Russia bombed a Georgian military base.)
- specialK16, on 08/10/2008, -3/+22Are some Diggers really that ***** insensitive and stupid? Or is it that *chan has been down for the past week?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26090865/displaymode/1 ...
This is incredibly sad. - inactive, on 08/10/2008, -5/+24Completely corrupt.
You cannot trust western media these days.
Your better off doing independent research and coming to your own conclusion. - algaeturd, on 08/10/2008, -41/+57Americans are in NO position to lay blame on ANYONE for ANYTHING. We toppled an innocent country and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people and made up evidence to do so, so that we might secure their oil.
So yeah, it's hard to talk blame in a conflict situation as an American, don't you think? - AReallyGoodName, on 08/10/2008, -3/+19Georgia was provoked by the South Ossetians in exactly the same way the Russians were provoked by the Georgians.
http://www.france24.com/en/20080807-new-fighting-e ...
7 Aug 08
"attacks by seperatists claimed the lives of at least ten Georgian soldiers"
"Despite our call for peace and a unilateral ceasefire separatists continued the shelling of Georgian villages" - inactive, on 08/10/2008, -1/+17Only if there is a zombie uprising.
- XandraX, on 08/10/2008, -1/+16Who said anything about Americans?
- inactive, on 08/10/2008, -2/+17You do realise that humor is a way of disarming uneasiness and despair, right?
- Andrewbot, on 08/10/2008, -1/+16Georgian or not, no one deserves this: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26090865/displaymode/1 ...
- T440, on 08/10/2008, -2/+17Just incase anyone else out there doesn't quite know what's going on either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_South_Ossetia_Wa ... - hiPpymIck, on 08/10/2008, -0/+14BBC video report..the violence at beginning is pretty graphic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7551291.st ... - sgtbutterscotch, on 08/10/2008, -0/+14That's not the same story.
- ZenMojo, on 08/10/2008, -1/+15Even though the democratically voted upon borders of Georgia haven't included Ossetia in almost two decades....
Oh, right, guns make borders, not people.... -
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