Saakashvili "planned S. Ossetia invasion" says ex-minister

Check out the video on this page:http://www.vz.ru/society/2008/9/16/208504.html

just scroll down until you see the color screen with Russia.ru on it. Click the screen and you will see some of the Georgian military using the "Grad" surface to surface rocket systems on the city of Thinzval. Watch it to the end. The video was downloaded from a Georgian soldier that got dead.

check this out: http://current.com/items/89307323_the_west_is_still_being_duped_about_the_magnit...

not surprised, i mean just look at the cheeky little devil

How can Georgia invade its own Country?

Of course you won't see this on CNN or any of the other major media corporations.

The sooner we get the USA to stop deciding who is to be the leader of other countries, the better. The sooner we get the USA to stop placing obedient puppet tyrants in other countries, the better. The sooner we get the USA to stop helping phony democracies to try to grab lands not really belonging to them, the better. The sooner we get the USA to stop destroying other countries so as to steal their natural resources, the better. Etc., etc.

The sooner we get Russia to stop defining the borders of sovereign eastern Europe countries, the better.

But since media writes history now...

"The American people don't read." - Former CIA director Allen Dulles, speaking about how the American people would respond to the inconsistencies in the Warren Commission report on the JFK assasination

Six media giants are significant beneficiaries of the current social structure around the world, and any upheaval in property or social relations—particularly to the extent that it reduces the power of business—is not in their interest. They serve their advertisers. That is their raison d’etre.

“At least 22 American news organizations had employed American journalists who were also working for the CIA, and nearly a dozen American publishing houses printed some of the more than 1,000 books that had been produced or subsidized by the CIA. When asked in a 1976 interview whether the CIA had ever told its media agents what to write, William Colby replied, ‘Oh, sure, all the time.”

PS : Check out Carl Bernstein’s 1970s Rolling Stone article on the CIA’s stranglehold on the US media, which has gotten far worse since then:
http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/cia_press.html

Soooo...

"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle

Why the hell are our politicians acting like Georgia was invaded unprovoked when they started all this shit? Pledged 1billion for Georgia but haven't even fixed New Orleans and only pledged 10million for Haiti who has millions of refugees and thousands dead. There is seriously something wrong here...I smell oil!!

Somehow I don't believe this dude would do shit without being told.

suckass willy, at it again.

"When we met President Bush in May 2005, we were told directly: don't involve yourself in a military confrontation. We won't be able to help you militarily."

and yet more recently

"Saakashvili's offensive only aimed at taking Tskhinvali, because he thought the U.S. would block a Russian reaction through diplomatic channels."

He thought that or he was told that? Enter old white haired dude in a baseball cap.

TWO-PRONGED OPERATION

"The original plans called for a two-pronged operation entering South Ossetia, taking Tskhinvali, the Roki Tunnel and Java," he said, referring respectively to the regional capital, the main border crossing between Russia and the rebel region, and another key town.

"Saakashvili's offensive only aimed at taking Tskhinvali, because he thought the U.S. would block a Russian reaction through diplomatic channels."

"But when the U.S. reaction turned out to be non-existent, Saakashvili then moved troops toward the Roki tunnel, only to be outmaneuvered by the Russians," he said.

Russia responded to the Georgian attack on Tskhinvali by pouring troops and tanks through the Roki tunnel into South Ossetia, routing the Georgian army. Okruashvili said that outcome was inevitable.

"After 2006 we didn't have the possibility for success by military means... the Russians had repositioned and improved their military infrastructure in the North Caucasus, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia -- and obviously they did it for us."

Okruashvili said the Georgian president could have ordered his army to defend several key towns from the Russians but "let the Russians in to avoid criticism and appear more of a victim".

Washington had always made clear to the Georgian leadership that it would not support an invasion, Okruashvili added.

"When we met President Bush in May 2005, we were told directly: don't involve yourself in a military confrontation. We won't be able to help you militarily."

Okruashvili, 34, fled to Europe in 2007 after imprisonment in Georgia, where he faced corruption charges he denied, saying they were intended to punish him for criticizing the president.

In March, a Georgian court sentenced him to 11 years in prison in absentia, but he was granted asylum in France where last week a court rejected Tbilisi's extradition request.

Okruashvili said Washington was partly to blame for the war because it uncritically supported Saakashvili despite his growing authoritarianism.

"There were no checks and balances. The institutions he created all revolved around him. Lack of criticism from the U.S. allowed him to go too far," he said.

Okruashvili said the Georgian president should now resign or face possible prosecution for ordering the war and for signing a "disgraceful" EU-brokered ceasefire plan which he said gave Russia a much stronger claim on the two rebel regions.

"(Saakashvili) must be held accountable and resign. If he steps down, he shouldn't be prosecuted. But if he doesn't it will lead to criminal charges against him," Okruashvili said.

Propelled to the forefront of the opposition when the charges brought against him helped spark mass demonstrations in Tbilisi, Okruashvili said he hoped the coming anniversary of those protests would rally the president's critics.

"November 7th will be a test. We'll see how much the opposition is able to mobilize," he said.

In the French capital since January, Okruashvili plans to come back to his homeland soon.

"I will return within a year, even if it means risking jail. But in the meantime I will try to create the right conditions. Saakashvili's days are numbered."