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- iopa, on 08/08/2008, -8/+440This needs more coverage. Invasion by a world power is slightly more important than Slow motion chain lightning, or copy and paste girls.
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -15/+422Digg users, I salute you.
You suck at prioritising your Diggs.
How is Tila Tequila and ball lightning more important than this? - m3mn0n, on 08/08/2008, -9/+300Uh oh... here comes trouble.
- cryptomystic, on 08/08/2008, -20/+262There is a major war going on in Russia and it's being ignored on Digg.
Even Fark is carrying this story, Digg has turned into a joke. - floejoe, on 08/08/2008, -4/+205The truth of the situation is far more complicated than it appears to be at first glance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Adjara_crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Georgia_(c ... - floejoe, on 08/08/2008, -19/+176We should all scream in hyperbole, feign outrage and make outrageous statements.
- jpbreeder, on 08/08/2008, -34/+179This is huge and far more important than the Olympics as a news story. These are actions that potentially could start WWIII.
- serif69, on 08/08/2008, -23/+163In Soviet Georgia, Russia invades YOU!
- orlyfactor, on 08/08/2008, -63/+199"We urge all sides to refrain from violence and to begin direct talks." says White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe. Oh, the hypocrisy and that guy's name. He's just begging to be an unidentified body.
- solid12345, on 08/08/2008, -7/+116Welcome to global politics, hypocricy is the center-piece of international diplomacy.
- LogicBomB, on 08/08/2008, -5/+107But they were twins...
- jpbreeder, on 08/08/2008, -51/+150Perfectly timed by Russia, everyone is focused on Olympics, US is at its weakest and Politicians are on Holiday.
- kemp34, on 08/08/2008, -15/+107FYI Georgia attacked Russian peacekeeping forces in the South Ossetia region prior to Russia bringing in further forces.
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 08/08/2008, -7/+95If you want to know how this affects the US, here's how. Georgia is going to pull their 2000 troops out of Iraq.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_re_eu/ge ...
Georgia calls back troops from Iraq amid fighting
TBILISI, Georgia - Georgia's president says the country is calling home its troops from Iraq amid heavy fighting in the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
Georgia has 2,000 troops serving with the coalition forces in Iraq, making it the third-largest contributor after the United States and Britain. - Merendino, on 08/08/2008, -21/+106...the *****?!
- aimhelix, on 08/08/2008, -9/+90I better get a copy of Battlefield 2 and start practicing...
- BabyWookie, on 08/08/2008, -16/+94Argh! Get a clue! This ***** started with the Georgian forces invading South Ossetia and destroying its capital, killing thousands of Russia civlians and 10 peace keepers. If any one times it, it was the Georgians. It's very lame too.
- gfnw, on 08/08/2008, -5/+74Front page at last.
- executorzz, on 08/08/2008, -3/+67Immediate cease fire or what? What are they afraid of? Global condemnation? Russia eats that ***** for breakfast.
- donkz, on 08/08/2008, -11/+74Russian peace core forces got bombed. Russian civilian population in Osetia is slaughtered. Russia invades Georgia..
Please, read the ***** article. - kidendless, on 08/08/2008, -7/+68Yeah, the website for the President of Russia is going to be much less biased than CNN.
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -1/+48Seeing as how they've been threatening to do this for awhile now, we DID see it coming.
- macwac, on 08/08/2008, -2/+49Depends if The Russian Federation stops at South Ossetia or whether it rolls into rest of Georgia - which is highly unlikely (they say they are only going into South Ossetia). Chances are there will not be another world war. UN, NATO and U.S have all asked for an immediate cease fire.
- scaaven2, on 08/08/2008, -5/+51The move came after Russia denounced a Georgian troops military offensive as "aggressive" .
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -3/+48Gotta love Digg. If a porn star was killed there would be 100,000 diggs and 20,000 messages
- dreambringer, on 08/08/2008, -2/+47Surprised this does not have more coverage... we do have troops there
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1845834.stm - kemp34, on 08/08/2008, -7/+51Who would digg this down? This is what happened.
http://www.truthout.org/article/georgia-launches-a ... - digglet08, on 08/08/2008, -13/+53Hear me out.
9/11 happens, the government was too complacent. Go to war, the government is too aggressive. Georgia and Russia have a dispute, the government is "stupid" for dealing with "all this Iraq, Obama and oil crap". If we invade, the government is war mongering. If we use diplomacy (which is what you referenced as lunch, and everyone says we should do more of), we're being hypocrites.
What the hell do people want?
huh?
We truly have become a nation of stupid whiners. - inactive, on 08/08/2008, -7/+46The cable networks are climaxing as we type.
- asus2000, on 08/08/2008, -9/+46As long as they stay out of Florida!!!
- inactive, on 08/08/2008, -6/+42Actually we did see this coming.
1- Russia was stopping natural gas pipelines to Georgia
2- Russia was amassing tanks, troops, and planes along Georgian border
3- Russia was constantly buzzing Georgian airspace.
But USA media was busy with Iraq war, who was right, wrong, Paris Hilton, BLAH...BLAH...
Now maybe they will get down to real politics and realize that talk is cheap. We need facts not opinions, and to knock off the 2 party bickering! - ORBAT, on 08/08/2008, -36/+72This is just like World War 2 when the Soviet Union shelled one of their own villages, claimed that the Finns did it and then invaded Finland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Mainila
They promptly got their asses handed to them back then, hopefully that'll happen in Georgia as well. - AbdullahAbuDawu, on 09/12/2008, -2/+37It appears someone has not been monitoring world news.
- jpbreeder, on 08/08/2008, -4/+38Anybody who is downplaying this is a complete idiot. What is happening right now is gonna affect all of us (mainly the Stock Market) if the US gets involved any further. Oh yeah almost forgot to mention, "Georgia made the first move and attacked Russia" and guess who is backing Georgia?.....US!
- coyote1284, on 08/08/2008, -3/+37In Soviet Russia, you did what I see there.
- bjornski, on 08/08/2008, -0/+33I was driving someone to the hospital today, and was watching the news in the waiting room. CBS was on, and their two big headlines were John Edwards having sex, and the Russian attacks.
15 minutes after the intro, I knew all about John Edwards and his sex life, but STILL hadn't heard a damned thing about, you know, actual news.
The media sucks. - fajitamelt, on 08/08/2008, -2/+35And it's right above Florida too. Labor Day weekend traffic is gonna be a bitch.
- Naieve, on 08/08/2008, -5/+37Because the lightning is more entertaining and less depressing then realizing Russia never changed its stripes?
- jhnsnp, on 08/08/2008, -1/+33well i take one thing back now, Georgia is pulling half of their troops from Iraq, so this does affect us in a way.
- gorkha, on 08/08/2008, -6/+38Just to let everyone know you should of seen this coming. Russia has been turning off the Natural Gas pipelines to the region since January 2005, along with a couple of other countries in the region. You all do know that its like 0degrees in the winter in Georgia? Yeah thanks for the No-Heat winter Russia. Its called GeoPolitics and its something all of you should know. Just look at the pipeline they are building from Russia through the seas to Germany. Just so they can ***** with the other countries around the other Pipelines and not intrude on the exportation of Natural Gas to Western Europe. yep. And look at Floe Joe's links, more info there.
- hipnerd, on 08/08/2008, -5/+36Yeah, how can we stop Russia from invading a sovereign nation under false pretenses when we're so busy fighting the insurgency that flared up after we invaded a sovereign nation under false pretenses?
Thank God our soldiers have an American flag on their sleeve, or I'd have a hard time telling who the good guys are. - wreckosaurus, on 08/08/2008, -2/+33I know when I want unbiased news about russia I go to kremlin.ru
- swrostmore, on 08/08/2008, -3/+33The implications for US foreign relations are a hell of a lot greater than a few foreign soldiers leaving Iraq who were only there in the first place so Bush could claim he had international support for the invasion.
- askantik, on 08/08/2008, -7/+36And the USA is attacking a sovereign country!!! Oh noes, we're hypocritical *****!!!
- coyote1284, on 08/08/2008, -4/+32Front page = ignored? What is this opposite day?
- ihavebeenseen, on 08/08/2008, -2/+30Damn my brain almost had a seizure trying to make sense of what you wrote.
America might be “hypocritical [sic]", but so is Russia. They tell us to stay out Serbia’s business in Kosovo and their business is Chechnya. So what they hell are they doing in South Ossetia and Abkhazia which is part Georgian sovereign territory. - donkz, on 08/08/2008, -49/+77Georgia bombs peace keepers and Osetia
Russia moves in forces to stop Georgia-Osetia fire
That's been cooking up for a while now. Read carefully. Do not read biased CNN news.
http://kremlin.ru/eng/text/themes/2008/08/081043_2 ... - Puisapres, on 08/08/2008, -7/+34The Russians went down to Georgia, they were lookin' for a soul to steal
/too soon - Pinkertinkle, on 08/08/2008, -11/+38The Georgians tried to take advantage of the Olympics as a distraction to send in their troops to take control of a disputed region, that's quite a jerk move.
- ferrariman60, on 08/08/2008, -3/+29***** it, I'd rather they take Florida than Georgia.
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