“Russians attacking poor little, peace, democracy loving Georgia” was all over the news for weeks. When dust settled it turns out that is was not exactly the case but who cares about that now? When McCain said, “We are all Georgians” did he mean that we are all war criminals? Sure seems that way:
So, maybe, just maybe Russia did come to Ossetia to save them from being slaughtered by Georgians.
“The BBC has discovered evidence that Georgia may have committed war crimes in its attack on its breakaway region of South Ossetia in August. Eyewitnesses have described how its tanks fired directly into an apartment block, and how civilians were shot at as they tried to escape the fighting. Research by the international investigative organization Human Rights Watch also points to indiscriminate use of force by the Georgian military, and the possible deliberate targeting of civilians.”
A lot more here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7692751.stmWhat happened in Georgia was almost entirely because of very misguided and short-sited US foreign policy. US replaced very pro-Russian Shevarnadze with most radical, anti-Russian guy they could find. Harvard educated Saakashvily seemed like perfect choice. He was installed in US paid for and CIA organized coup. US got the oil pipeline through Georgia they always wanted.
Problem is. Saakashvili was not just extremely anti-Russian he was extreme Georgian nationalist too. His main idea for new Georgia was “Georgia for Georgians” Russian speaking minorities had to be forced out, driven out of the land they lived on for generations simply because that land, by accident of history, became part of Georgia after fall of USSR.
Average American would never suspect their beloved Government in supporting “ethnic cleansing” of any kind, anywhere in the world. After all US is force for good, peace, love everywhere…. but it did happen. Would not be the first time ether.
