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Rice Warned Georgia on South Ossetia, Russia in July

Preemptive Karma found this 8/13/2008 on shortnews.com

An unnamed senior US official who was with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her July trip to Tbilisi said she warned Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to avoid conflict with Russia even as she fingered Russia as part of the problem. The official says "She told him, in no uncertain terms, that he had to put a non-use of force pledge on the table." He also said "We told them they ...