What did Condi accomplish.....oh yeah, a 'ceasefire'. I wonder for how long with the Russia army right over the border in South Ossetia.....oh wait, I meant to say North Ossetia.
Incompetents......I hate them all!
The Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, said he respected the principle of territorial integrity but "after what happened, it's unlikely Ossetians and Abkhazians will ever be able to live together with Georgia in one state".
In Washington, George Bush demanded Moscow honour a commitment to get out of Georgia, declaring the country had chosen democracy and "we won't cast them aside". He said Georgia's integrity and sovereignty must be respected and that a contentious relationship with the US was not in Moscow's best interests. "Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century," Bush said.
Medvedev, speaking in the Black Sea resort of Sochi where he had talks with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said: "If someone continues to attack our citizens , our peacekeepers, we will of course respond in just the same way we have responded. There should be no doubt about this."
Moscow appeared to raise the temperature further by saying Poland's agreement to host a US missile defence system exposed it to attack. Colonel General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy head of the Russian general staff, was quoted by the news agency Interfax as saying: "Poland, by deploying (the system), is exposing itself to a strike – 100%."
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