Comments on: Russia To Begin Georgia Pullout

But Medvedev Suggests Forces Could Remain In Separatist Region, Fueling Annexation Fears

[lewiston14]

Lest see if this cuts the CBS monitor muster even if the first one said nothing bad. dont allow any political bush people on russian soil again until after the elections. They are lame ducks with nothing russia is interested in hearing.

[usdoomedus]

Though Russia says it will begin pulling back its troops from Georgia on Monday, it''s unclear how long the redeployment will take, and a Russian lawmaker has compared the situation to the U.S. presence in Iraq.

[oneamerican_]

It appears that the Liberals are still being led with a ring in their nose - by the neo-Soviet regime of the KGB hit-man, Vladimir Putin.

It''s laughable to watch how these Liberals embrace every despot dictator and rogue nation on the face of the planet.

So - the question is - should you trust these same liberals to choose an American president?

Not on your life!

[drew1503]

WE HAVE NO BUSINESS being in a foreign country just as a foreign country has no business here deploying "missile shields". Does anyone here know our history any more? Our country was known for being the "gentle giant" one of our great founders once said "America does not go around the world looking for dragons to slay", we were supposed to trade with everyone yet have no alliances with anyone, but that changed in the latter part of our history. Remember the USS Liberty which has been declassified and our President allowed an attack and called back air support to help our men aboard that ship, or the Gulf of Tonkin, which has also been declassified. Read Operation Northwoods here on ABC and question the governments actions, they have already been caught lying and telling us Russia started this war and CNN got caught the other day using footage from one town to say it was Gori. We do not need WW3 based on a lie, we need to fix our home. This is the time for Americans to come together for America, not the world. We are a sovereign nation and were not supposed to get involved in the quarrels of Europe and invade innocent countries like Iraq. We the people are not bad, a group in our Government is, read the papers outside this country, the world knows it and has for a long time, we just do not want to believe it.

[lindh4]

I don''t understand why the Russians are not petrified at the sight of Condescending Rice. Her brutally intimidating scowls indicates she is about to drop a bomb or give birth to a roll of barbed-wire.

[metsobitso]

The United States has the strongest military in the world and they are broke. They got just what they voted for. Now George Bush has to divert our attention to his dirty little wars as we go around the world stealing oil. Although we may be bankrupt, George Bush and Rick Channey have got fabulously wealthy. Vote for John McCain and get more of the same.

[secundus2]

Spain (with its Basques and Catalans), Greece and a couple of other European countries saw this kind of conflict coming during the Kosovo crisis. And it is the same problem faced by the 12-14 million Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq.

When does an ethnic minority no longer give its consent to be ruled by others? The US Declaration of Independence says that the just powers of government derive from the consent of the goverened. How far do you push that principle? It is a principle often in conflict with the borders ("territorial integrity" recognized under international law.

In a few circumstances autonomy works. But no US politician and no international court has an answer that fits every situation.

[james77773]

Yep, saacka-phaacka-shvili can lie the world as much as he wants, but he has a lot of neck ties to chew on in the future.

[lewiston14]

Does Bush and Rice have a hearing problem? Stay out of other countries business. Hang in there a few more months.

[kenammons]

russia may very well decide that georgia needs to return to the soviet fold and take over the rest of georgia if they do its not our problem or a reason for us to get involved the president of georgia made this easy when he attacked the seperatist and started this whole thing now he wants bailed out. no way is what i say

[jmurrieta1]

The chances that Russia will NOT eventually annex Abkhazia and S. Ossetia--about 0.

What the US and "Europe" are going to do about it--about 0.

The chances that sane generals and admirals in the Pentagon would let Bush and Cheney send US military forces toe to toe with the Russkies, right on the Russian border--about 0.

Time for lots of hand wringing. But the US just doesn''t have the credibility to do so anymore.

Bush and Cheney flushed that down the toilet years ago, and all McCain can offer is angry threats.

[youngjm0]

Russias navy is much larger than the US, their ports is full of war ships just waiting to go to war, Russia has so many tanks that they just burn the ones that breaks down, they don''t even bother to go get them.

[youngjm0]

Russia is the largest nation in the world, it has 10 times the military that is just sitting idle, this was a cake walk and they got the whole cake to eat. Their navy was off the coast of Georgia the next day, in forse an sinking anything that didn''t turn back, their fighter jets shot down all of Georgias fighter jets, the USA ask Russia not to shot down their C-130''s and told Russia their flight plan. VODKA ANYONE!!

[kenammons]

georgia started this mess and with millions of americans out of work and losing their homes for bush to spend even one penny of taxpayer money on those worthless bums is an outrage against all decent americans

[catalink-2009]

An interesting take from Steve Levine: with Russia''s pullout, "a new, probably far more important stage of the Georgian crisis will begin." Levine knows what he''s talking about: he covered previous wars in the Caucasus (Georgia, Chechnya, Azerbaijan), Tajikistan and the Soviet-Afghan war: http://oilandglory.com/2008/08/after-georgia-day-of-reckoning-for.html

[bob5ford]

We, the US and NATO are almost in Russia''s back yard. How would we feel if they were in ours?
What we need to start doing is worrying about South America. Bolivia and Venezuela both have socialist governments that are popular at the moment. As soon as they start to have problems they will blame the US. Venezuela has already invited the Russians to base military aircraft there. The next real threat we face will not be far away across an ocean but in our own back yard. And it won%u2019t play out on the evening news, it will play out in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California and possibly Florida if Cuba becomes involved, with a real shooting war. With our military tied up overseas where they don%u2019t belong it will be up to the militia to fight this war. Sound surreal? It may be real, sooner then you think!! We pushed Russia out of Cuba once, we should know how they feel about the US in Georgia.

[hypnotoad72]

Pull in, pull out... anyone hear the song "Pump" lately? :D

[ramos937]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday that Georgia could "forget about" getting the two regions back. On Saturday, he said that Russia will boost its peacekeeping force in South Ossetia and will not withdraw its other troops until further security measures are taken.
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Russia is keeping the two regions because it can. No amount of rhetoric can change that. Unless, a superior military force can change things, those two regions are now Russian.