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Russian tanks roll deep into Georgia, break truce
news.yahoo.com — Georgian officials said Gori was looted and bombed by the Russians. An AP reporter later saw dozens of tanks and military vehicles leaving the city, roaring south.
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- ironeus, on 08/13/2008, -5/+3Between Medvedev and Saakashvili it's tough to decipher what is the truth at this point.
- SRSco, on 08/13/2008, -4/+8Am I the lone rational Digger who still remembers Russia as being an evil empire? I'm pro-Georgian.
- ssn697, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Georgia had the right idea, but the WRONG leader. Saakashvili is a hot headed fool, and he played right into Russia's game.
- SRSco, on 08/13/2008, -4/+1You don't know him very well.
- richmomz, on 08/13/2008, -4/+5I am old enough to remember the cold war, but past precident doesn't override the facts. Georgia killed 2,000 innocent people, including Russian citizens and soldiers - Russia had a right to respond.
- atdigg, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2What were the Russian soldiers and citizens doing in Georgia? "peace keeping"
Why is Russia interfering in a internal conflict in George would they like other countries to interfere in Chechnya? - macwac, on 08/15/2008, -0/+1People have started to run with the 1500 people figure which was released by Russia, but according to Human Rights Watch only 40-60 ppl died during the initial shelling by Georgia (though bad, hardly close to the assumed figure): http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/13/russia1 ...
They also have a nice background story on the conflict, which explains why Russia isn't so fault-free as people wish it to be - they've been escalating the conflict over years: http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/08/08/georgi19577 ...
And sending the Russian army 50 km from Georgia's capital and holding Georgian army base hostage is hardly a peace keeping mission as Russia said it would be... I'm not saying Georgia is without fault, but painting it white and black and blaming Georgia is simply wrong.
- atdigg, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2What were the Russian soldiers and citizens doing in Georgia? "peace keeping"
- ssn697, on 08/13/2008, -0/+2Georgia had the right idea, but the WRONG leader. Saakashvili is a hot headed fool, and he played right into Russia's game.
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 08/13/2008, -1/+5Shocked? That's what you get for believing the lies of a former KGB agent.
- ecrunner, on 08/13/2008, -2/+1What an ironic time for this to be happening
- richmomz, on 08/13/2008, -5/+2Burried for sensationalist tripe. Russian troops are moving around but there is no fighting going on so there has been no breach of the ceasefire.
- geekee, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5
Wrong.
The EU peace plan calls for both sides to retreat to the positions they held prior to the outbreak of fighting late Thursday. That phrasing apparently would allow Georgian forces to return to the positions they held in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and clearly obliges Russia to leave all parts of Georgia except South Ossetia and Abkhazia.- richmomz, on 08/13/2008, -0/+1That's the peace plan (which has not been ratified yet). The ceasefire means you don't resume killing each other.
- atdigg, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3Sure, they went out for a stroll...
- geekee, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5
- geekee, on 08/13/2008, -0/+3"a BBC reporter in Gori reported that Russians tanks were in the streets as their South Ossetian separatist allies seized Georgian cars, looted Georgian homes and then set some homes ablaze."
- silentboom, on 08/13/2008, -6/+2Buried as Neocon propaganda supplied by puppet governments over there. Facts, we want to implement a missile shield, we want to get Georgia into NATO as it weakens Russian influence and so also Iran, there is also an oil pipeline involved.
- geekee, on 08/13/2008, -0/+5Buried your comment as anti-US, fact challenged bs.
- Tangaroa, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3Quote: "we want to implement a missile shield, we want to get Georgia into NATO as it weakens Russian influence and so also Iran, there is also an oil pipeline involved."
Exactly what part of that makes it alright for Russia to invade Georgia? If you can't, at least explain how these are bad things.
- Bagos1, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1They are positioning for the Iran invasion.
- paulishuku, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Um, am I reading the right article here? Cause the article that is linked says nothing about looting or bombing only of Russians pulling out of Georgia.
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