"Koba Gurnashvili, stepped into the road and yelled at them, "Where do you think you're going?" One of the soldiers yelled back: "To Tbilisi." But they did not, instead turning up a side road leading to a village near South Ossetia."
Since they are obviously doing such a bad job of "reporting," the question then becomes: WHAT, if ANYTHING, are they telling the TRUTH about?
Unfortunately for America and Americans, the answer is NOTHING!!!
"Russians maintain Georgian positions; Contend pullout partially underway" by Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times News Service | August 19, 2008
GORI, Georgia - Russia claimed it had begun withdrawing its troops from Georgia yesterday but there was little evidence of it on the ground: Russian soldiers continued digging in along the highway approaching the capital, Tbilisi, and showed no sign of pulling back from the severest confrontation between Russia and the West since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Keep reading.
Along one major road, four Russian armored personnel carriers rattled a few miles closer to the capital, then plowed through parked police cars blocking a road as Georgian police officers stood by in helpless dismay.
The bias is sickening. Yup, the poor, defensless Georgian aggressors!!!
In Moscow, Russia's state news agency, the Russian Information Agency, reported that one of its correspondents saw small convoys of five to 10 tanks moving north toward Russia through the day. But in Washington, Defense Department and military officials offered a different account.
"We have not seen any significant Russian movement out of Georgia today," said one senior Pentagon official.
Keep that in mind, readers.
On the ground in Georgia, about 25 miles outside the capital along the main highway, the four Russian armored personnel carriers moved past the Russian checkpoint at Igoeti and headed in the other direction, toward Tbilisi. Soldiers were piled on top, cradling Kalashnikov rifles.
As they drove past, one old man, Koba Gurnashvili, stepped into the road and yelled at them, "Where do you think you're going?" One of the soldiers yelled back: "To Tbilisi."
But they did not, instead turning up a side road leading to a village near South Ossetia. They stopped at an intersection blocked by Georgian police cars.
The Russian commander climbed off his tank and began arguing with the Georgian police officers. He said he had orders to move up the road; a Georgian officer said he had orders to remain on the road, and asked to call his superiors for guidance. The Russian said, "You have three minutes to move your cars."
The two argued for a few minutes more. Then the police officers stepped away from their cars, stone faced, with their keys. The tank smashed aside the cars. At the entrance to the central city of Gori, which has been in Russian hands for days, Russian soldiers sat on armored personnel carriers, smoking and napping in the heat of the afternoon.
Soldiers held the main bridge and the military base and were running checkpoints on the roads. Convoys were shuttling to Tskhinvali, South Ossetia's capital. Some soldiers, grubby after days in the field, were swimming in rivers.
Translation: The RUSSIANS have RESTABLISHED PEACE after Georgia's AGGRESSION!!!
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