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“when it’s clear that Georgia fired the first shot”

Actually, it’s not clear at all. It seems that the first shot (not that the concept of ‘first shot’ has any relevance in the 21st century) was fired by S. Ossetiaians (sp?) in an ambush of a Georgian army truck. Or maybe that should be ‘first IED’, since the truck was mined and then machine gunned.
When you act as a dupe for Soviet, er……Russian propaganda, don’t be surprised when people call you on it. Since you are not a Russian, one can only assume that you have sold out. As a struggling writer, I suppose you needed the money. Scott Ritter did. Althouh it was rumored that Saddam also had pictures of Scott with a little boy, performing an indelicate act, so the 400,000 was a sweetener.
I really can’t blame you, after all, despots and Tyrants have ALWAYS been able to find someone to take their 30 pieces of silver. So if it wasn’t you, it would have been somebody else. You might be the only one to make a profit out of this whole thingie.
None of which hides the FACT that S. Ossetia is, by treaty, a part of Georgia. That fact and the Russian invasion of a sovereign nation to secure access ( the Roki Tunnel) to THE major logistic route into Georgia, Anatolia and places south, leads one to think that Russia is intent on restoring the Soviet Empire by force of arms, which is the same way it was established.
Aiding to this conclusion is the fact that the truck which was ambushed was on it’s way to the Roki tunnel to secure it. To throw more facts in the stew, the Russian started their attack on Georgian communication systems 2 weeks before their proxies ambushed that army truck. Also keep in mind that the Russians were practicing for the rape of Georgia in Early July.
The only people fooled by this agi-prop campaign (maskarova sp?) are the terminally stooooopid and those being paid to be fooled.

“Gentlemen, you may be sure that of the three courses open to the enemy, he will always choose the fourth.”*
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_Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke to his staff