TBILISI, Georgia - Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili said that even though he was signing the cease-fire framework, he was not giving up Georgia's claim to Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
ASSHOLE!!!!!!
At the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russian president Dmitri A. Medvedev met with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who has often sought to act as a bridge between the United States and Russia. At a joint news conference after their meeting, Merkel tread a careful line, saying that Russia's military action was "not proportionate" but that "both sides are probably to blame for the conflict."
No, Ms. Merkel: GEORGIA STARTED IT!!
There is no "PROBABLY" about it!!!!
Germany worried about the gas lines, that's all.
Medvedev hewed to the Kremlin's position that Georgia can never again have sovereignty over South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Nor should they!
Russia has said Georgia instigated the hostilities, and called Saakashvili a war criminal. "The entire responsibility for the conflict, for the cruel actions committed, rests upon the shoulders of the Georgian leadership," Medvedev said.
Yup!!!
Of course, only the photograph shows you the GEORGIAN CRIMES!!!
A woman walked past a ruined building yesterday in Tskhinvali in the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia. Georgia's president signed a cease-fire deal with Russia meant to end fighting that has battered his country. (mikhail metzel/Associated Press)
The rest of the NYT piece of trash is ALL PROPAGANDA, as many bloggers have noted time and again!
Wow. Did that paper every drop like a, well, WTC tower on 9/11 (free-fall speed, folks)!!!!
Meanwhile, their step-child (Times owns Boston Globe), runs this one-sided crap as an appendage to the NYT piece of shit:
"Key Georgian city's residents line up for bread, chat with Russian soldiers" by Mansur Mirovalev, Associated Press | August 16, 2008
GORI, Georgia - Under a statue of Josef Stalin, the best-known product of this city, a Russian and a Georgian were discussing the war. The Georgian was wearing a T-shirt and track pants. The Russian was in uniform, holding an AK-47.
Archil Tadianidze, a Georgian who lives in Gori, was talking about militia fighters from the breakaway province of South Ossetia who had joined with Russian volunteers to rampage in and around Gori. "They killed civilians in the villages," he said.
"Now we've gotten tough with them, but where were your police?" answered the Russian, Andrei Pilipchuk, an Interior Ministry spokesman who had accompanied a handful of journalists here.
"They left," Tadianidze said.
As diplomats try to get a cease-fire agreement between Georgia and Russia put into place, an uneasy kind of calm has settled on Gori, occupied by the Russians and situated just south of South Ossetia.
Russian troops yesterday allowed some humanitarian supplies into Gori, but continued their blockade of the strategically located city, raising doubts about Russia's intentions in the country.
Fuck you, MSM press!
I got one word for you: PALESTINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The city is militarily important, because it sits along Georgia's only significant east-west highway. Russian armored vehicles rattled down near-empty streets, and the few remaining residents lined up for bread and talked with the soldiers, who have restored a semblance of order.
Oh, is THAT what the Russian "occupiers" have done?
Maybe they could teach the U.S. a few things to help them in Iraq?
Many of the people who are left are rattled or frightened. Most buildings appear intact, though a few on the outskirts were burned. Electricity is scarce, and there are very few people left, most of them men or elderly. Younger people fled into the mountains or to Tbilisi.
Why do I instantly think Baghdad?
A woman in her 40s named Manana Labadze was outside Gori near a Russian-occupied artillery base. She was carrying a bag with a coat and nectarines. She was so scared and shell-shocked that when she saw Russian soldiers, all she could do was start handing out the nectarines and read from a small book of poetry she was carrying in the bag.
"My home is over there," she told a reporter, "but I'm hiding in a basement at my relatives'. I'm scared."Palestine, Palestine, Palestine, Palestine, Palestine.....
And what of the OSSETIAN REFUGEES, huh?
Relatives mourned during the wake of Vazha Bestaev of South Ossetia, seen in a photo on the table, in the town of Ardon, Russia. He died in recent fighting in Tskhinvali. (Mikhail Metzel/Associated Press)
