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To: Thomas M. who wrote (411965)	8/31/2008 12:30:40 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1585952

"Obviously, Cheney & the Neocons goaded him to attack Ossetia." I wonder if Saakashvili knows now that having his country shattered was just a plot to help the neos win an undeserved American election?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (411965)	8/31/2008 4:32:02 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585952

It cracked me up to watch people call Saakashvili "stupid" for attacking Ossetia, and wonder why on earth he would do it. Obviously, Cheney & the Neocons goaded him to attack Ossetia. And just as obviously, Cheney was counting on the American media and European leadership to be easily manipulated into demonizing Russia. Don't disagree but I think there is enough stupidity to go around that easily can include Saakashvili. No one twisted his arm to attack S. Ossetia with Russian troops amassing on the border. IMO Saakashvili is a neo....it doesn't take much to get them to start a war.

To: Thomas M. who wrote (411965)	8/31/2008 5:09:14 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585952

This is who the president of Georgia sent in to fight a war: "Giorgi Monasalidze and Nika Kharadze wandered into war singing Georgian patriotic songs, their heads clouded by visions of military heroism. They ended up prisoners and were made to clean up the mess that the war had left behind. With no military training - neither had ever fired a gun - the two young men left their homes in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, hours after Georgia began its offensive against South Ossetia, expecting to be greeted as comrades and heroes by the Georgian soldiers they believed they would meet at the front. When South Ossetian soldiers detained them a mere 24 hours after the fighting had begun, they were trying to enter Tskhinvali, South Ossetia's capital, unarmed and on foot, and no Georgian soldiers were to be found." iht.com