re: By Rus7355, August 27 at 11:39 am:

Rus, anyone can lob empty and presumptuous rhetorical questions. Do you think these asinine provocations of yours are clever or subtle?

re: By Rus7355, August 27 at 6:51 am:

And when did you stop beating your wife. Twit.

re: By Rus7355, August 27 at 5:51 am:

Rus, what impels you to ask me vaporous rhetorical questions marinated in false premises?

Saakashvili is a brainless buffoon. The only similarity to Stalin and Hitler in this particular situation is the behaviour of Saaka himself and the storm troopers he sent into South Ossetia. He only has credibility on stooge TV, like Fox, CNN and the rest. You can only go on saying up’s down for so long. He seems blissfully unaware of this because he’s listening to his Israeli and American advisors who tell him what they want him to believe. That’s why he sent the army into South Ossetia in the first place. It was an act of madness but that’s not what THEY told him.

Is the U.S. a free country?
Try riding around in your car with an ak-47 hanging out the window.
Try getting your elected representatives to bear down on the current administration with oversight and investigation.
Try breaking up the corporate media and getting OUR, the PUBLIC’S, broadcast bands back that were stolen from us and now are used to disinform us, misinform us and gives absolutely NO differring opinion, comment, or insight much less real investigative reporting while the thieves that stole them are becoming quite rich on their booty.
Try regulating the corporations.
Try regulating the lobbyists.
Try to tell izrael or at least the aipac to shut the fuck up.
Try to get a real job with a viable wage.
Try to get health care insurance, what the hell, try holding the insurance companines to strict regulation and if they are wrong, they can go the way of the dodo.
Try to sue a corporation for wrong or neglegent actions. (Why can mattel toys get $100million for a stupid copyright against anybody?)
Try to get our infrastructure repaired.
Try to put the 4 remaining supreme court justices in prison for illegaly stoping the recount in 2000.
Try taking w and dick to court for the murder of our troops and innocent civilians in other countries.
Just try to hold anybody accountable for anything that is against the law that holds a position in government.
The list is forever too long.

Cheers to the Russians for recognizing the independence of the two separatist Georgian states despite the evil provocation of Mikhail Saakashvili. This is universal lesson on how to turn a crises into a win-win situation for the parties involved.

I wish the Israelis could learn a lesson from the pragmatism and humanism of the Russians and acknowledge the aspirations of the Palestinians for freedom, self-determination, human rights and peaceful existence. With this Russian gesture, there remains two countries that are against to progressive tide of human history; these are Israel and the USA.

If it was within my capacity, I would ship all the American and Israeli crooked politicians for a long internship in Russia to learn the ABC’s of politics and constructive diplomacy. But alas! Low-thinking human beings, intoxicated with the wine of arrogance and power, don’t heed the lessons provided by the wise ones!

Not only are the Russians in the right, the utmost hypocrisy of US objections is blatantly obvious. The continued presence of US troops and US assistance will only create tensions that will backfire on us in the future. Just as the Israeli defeat by Hizbollah weakened Isreal’s power, the inability of the US to exert any real influence in this affair (ludicrous irony aside) weakens Uncle Sam’s imperialist, fear-based influence. The age of unipolar empire is over.

Stalin, Hitler…or, more accurately, to the US recognition of Kosovo as a nation.

At the time of Georgia’s surprise attack on South Ossetia, there were - by international agreement - both Georgian and Russian peacekeeping troops there.

By orders from Georgia’s president, the Georgian peacekeepers turned on their fellow Russian peacekeepers and murdered them in cold blood without warning.

As far as I’m concerned, the Russians are completely in the right, and no one can be surprised that they have dropped all neutrality and are now frankly supporting the separatists.