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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 08:53 AM
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Putin assails US for hauling Georgian troops into their war zone. Expect payback
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/11/europe/EU-Russia-Georgia-South-Ossetia-Putin.php

MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday harshly criticized the United States for airlifting Georgian troops from Iraq back home.

Putin said the U.S. move would hamper efforts to solve Russia's conflict with Georgia over the breakaway province of South Ossetia.

"It's a pity that some of our partners, instead of helping, are in fact trying to get in the way," Putin said at a Cabinet meeting. "I mean among other things the United States airlifting Georgia's military contingent from Iraq effectively into the conflict zone."

The U.S. military started flying some 2,000 Georgian troops home from Iraq on Sunday after Georgia recalled them. Georgian officials haven't said how many have come back, but a Russian general said eight U.S. military transport planes had already flown home some 800 Georgian troops.

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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 08:56 AM
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1. Be interesting to see if Iraq collapses now.
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predfan Donating Member (769 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 08:58 AM
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2. If there was ever a question as to just how f******up we can get over this war,
here's a good example.

We have absolutly no moral authority to tell any country anything, and the world knows it.
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 10:03 AM
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3. I agree! NT
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 11:00 AM
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5. We've lost moral authority. Don't honor our treaties. Our military & financial might are squandered.
We've become a third-world country running-up a first-world debt.

We've allowed a communist country that doesn't even believe in money to bankrupt us.

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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 10:58 AM
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4. Putin should offer to negotiate with Bush over a plate of sushi. n/t
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