sundriesshack.com - 8/11/2008
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Ever since the Rose Revolution of 2003 , Vladimir Putin and his fellow autocrats in Russia have been looking for an excuse to break bad on Georgia. I’m not sure why they didn’t simply try to poison him to death like they tried with Viktor Yuschenko , but in any case they have long had their eyes on reclaiming the upstart nations that dared to throw off the old Soviet tyrant. ...
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Is Georgia in 2008 like Hungary in 1956?
Michelle Malkin —
... in Georgia not to repeat that mistake. We must not bluff, and we can’t promise or imply what we will not back up. The stakes are too high. But they’re too high to do nothing, as well. *The Times of London article linked above notes that a statue of Stalin still stands in the town of Gori, Georgia –because it’s Stalin’s birthplace. No wonder Putin wants it back. It’s like Mount Vernon for him. ______________________________ {Post by See-Dubya.} Some more good points here at the Sundries Shack and at ...
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