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ITN correspondent: “Saakashvili is lunatic”

Published: 08 August, 2009, 17:55

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At least some UK correspondents, who were reporting from the Ossetian war, were not able to deliver their personal opinions [critical towards Georgia] through their networks, says Moscow-based journalist Artyom Drabkin.

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A Russian tank drives through a Roksky tunnel as it heads to the South Ossetian conflict zone, in Nizur on August 9, 2008. AFP Photo / Kazbek Basaev 08.08.2009, 14:31 4 comments

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Putin: Georgia could have maintained its territorial integrity

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Aimilios G. Moschovitis August 17, 2009, 01:36
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Let’s open “the secret file” of the CIA/NATO project for Georgia and Saakshvili We have well started with the 8 oligarchs, all Jews except one when with the help of the “7 sisters” {SHEEL etc] and Jewish banks we tried to bye the maximum of Russia’s resources…but Putin... Next stage: a. - encircle Russia with US basis b. - Install puppet regimes. Will Lavrof start acting irrationally? No..! No more dictatorships {?}, but carnation flower revolutions through NGO’s {ad hoc Jew: Sorros}. In the case of Georgia we gave a scholarship to Issaak-ashvili, ran him in through participation in Sorros NGO’s and he will apply faithfully our plans. {He doesn’t speak like a native US citizen. recent immigrants could not possibly pay university fees and tuitions and incidental expenses.} We could explain his awkward behavior by calling him lunatic {Luna=Moon}. In P.R. and salesmanship courses we taught him how to smile, in order to cover his troubled conscience, like Bush. Like previously with Scha of Iran which we replaced him after overthrowing Mossadek and as in the case of the king of Jordan we have instructed him to support the US weapon industry {20% of the state budget}. This way our “weapon instructors “ will spot valuable allies in the Georgian army and idem through common NATO “exercises”. One year before his attack against Ossetia he bought the bulk of the armament. He was ready. There are problems: he is not flexible. Although we give him all the questions and answers for the journalists, when they try to ask him something relevant but not scheduled, he tries to make them shut up. Will some day start becoming a patriot, as in the case of the lawyer of New Jersey Ngo Dung Dien that we made him president of South Viet Nam {1954}, we will eliminate him {1963}. P.S. CIA career opportunities: Georgia Analyst, College students, Military Analysts, Political Analysts.

James August 11, 2009, 02:01
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Re: Zak You have mentioned one or two things which are very true and the rest is semi-literate rubbish, fictions of a mind not better than Saakashvili's. You are correct regarding the endemic, institutionalised racism of UK based reporting on Russia. And it is disgusting, and I say this as a Brit. You then remove your thoughts from an honest critique to an assylum for the mentally insane. "UK today is no more power country" - well, yes and no. Not as before, but any country with a nuclear arsenal larger than China's, and an economy larger than Russia's despite not being larger than Moscow Oblast' according to yourself (incidentally, Moscow Oblast' = 49000 sq km and the UK = 244000 sq km) still posesses considerable power and influence. And as for the secret talks with Hitler, this is unusually humourous coming from someone who is a compatriot of Molotov, of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (wikipedia could be a good friend to you, and your English). In any case this is another lie of yours. Regaring the cold war and the secret plans for invasion?

Norman August 08, 2009, 22:41
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President Saakashvili is a war criminal, guilty of genocide and a lunatic. He should be brought before the Hague Tribunal for crimes against humanity!!