Georgia: "Western press continues to operate as the propaganda-arm of the Pentagon"

Master Plan or Screw Up?
Georgia and U.S. Strategy
By MIKE WHITNEY

The American-armed and trained Georgian army swarmed into South Ossetia last Thursday, killing an estimated 2,000 civilians, sending 40,000 South Ossetians fleeing over the Russian border, and destroying much of the capital, Tskhinvali. The attack was unprovoked and took place a full 24 hours before even ONE Russian soldier set foot in South Ossetia. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Americans still believe that the Russian army invaded Georgian territory first. The BBC, AP, NPR, the New York Times and the rest of the establishment media have consistently and deliberately misled their readers into believing that the violence in South Ossetia was initiated by the Kremlin. Let's be clear, it wasn't. In truth, there is NO dispute about the facts except among the people who rely the western press for their information. Despite its steady loss of credibility, the corporate media continues to operate as the propaganda-arm of the Pentagon.

Russia deployed its tanks and troops to South Ossetia to save the lives of civilians and to reestablish the peace. Period. It has no interest in annexing the former-Soviet country or in expanding its present borders. Now that the Georgian army has been routed, Russian president Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin have expressed a willingness to settle the dispute through normal diplomatic channels at the United Nations. Neither leader is under any illusions about Washington's involvement in the hostilities. They know that Georgian President Mikail Saakashvili is an American stooge who came to power in a CIA-backed coup, the so-called "Rose Revolution", and would never order a major military operation without explicit instructions from his White House puppetmasters.

The Georgian army had no chance of winning a war with Russia or any intention of occupying the territory they captured. The real aim was to lure the Russian army into a trap. US planners hope to do what they did so skillfully in Afghanistan; lure their Russian prey into a long and bloody Chechnya-type fiasco that will pit their Russia troops against guerrilla forces armed and trained by US military and intelligence agencies. The war will be waged in the name of liberating Georgia from Russian imperialism and stopping Putin from achieving his alleged ambition to control critical western-owned pipelines around the Caspian Basin.

Was the Goergian attack last Thursday a set-up, organized in Washington? Unfortunately for Bush, the wily Russian prime minister is considerably brighter than anyone in the current administration. Bush's plan will undoubtedly backfire and disrupt the geopolitical balance of power. The world might get that breather from the US after all.

Please read the entire article at

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney08142008.html

This is in dispute.

There are reports South Ossetia started firing shells into Georgia first in order to derail talks aimed at bringing South Ossetia back under Georgian control.

this is all part of the media script.

Why don't you stop parroting the corporate media and pay attention. Our elites are about to restart the Cold War.

arendt

For the record most of the rest of the planet are more than delighted to see a little balance of power taking place. One superpower is a gazillion times worse than two.

with illegal occupations and "Gitmo" instead of gulags!

If the shelling was commonplace (your words), then the attack couldn't have been unprovoked.


Do I get an apology now for your personal attack against me?

you get no apologies from me. You are either naive or lying to say that any artillery pot shot amounts to a sufficient provocation for flattening the capital of S.O.

Its no personal attack. Its an attack on the lies you are spreading. People who use rhetoric like yours are always playing the victim. You get no sympathy from me.

arendt

"There are reports South Ossetia started firing shells into Georgia first in order to derail talks aimed at bringing South Ossetia back under Georgian control."

Links please.

Try posting a link that works.

Try cutting and pasting it.

their gusts a platform. These 2 clearly didn't get their scripts.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2289456816303434468

Time for a break - :rofl: