Obama & NATO Should Listen to the Truth About Bush's Proxy War in Caucasus.

Georgian War was Bush's Proxy War to Weaken Russia. The five-day Russo-Georgian War in the Caucasus brought into sharp focus many conflicts rooted in the regions history and in aggressive US-NATO policies since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Notable among these were the military encirclement of Russia and attempts to control energy resources in areas long dominated by the Soviet Union. The net effect was to hasten a dangerous new era of rivalry between the worlds two most powerful nuclear weapons states, one which will be shaped hereafter by the current global recession and the changes it is bringing about in the economic practices of all states. President Bill Clintons resort to force in Kosovo in 1999 was crucial in precipitating this situation. At that moment the US moved to thrust aside international law and the primacy of the Security Council. Clinton justified war as a matter of establishing a more humane international order, and every civilian death that resulted from it became unintentional collateral damage, morally justifiable because the end was noble. By substituting a quasi-legal, moral right of humanitarian intervention for the long-established principles of national sovereignty and respect for territorial integrity, US-NATO aggression against Serbia prepared the ground for the Bush administrations unilateral military interventions. Now, bogged down in illegal, unjust war in Iraq, the US government suddenly appears to have rediscovered the usefulness of norms of international law that it had denied in Kosovo. But it invoked the principle of state sovereignty selectively, attacking Russia for its intervention in Georgia while simultaneously sending its own armed forces and aircraft on cross-border raids into Pakistan. The search for causes of the Georgia conflict also brought to the fore the American quest for unchallengeable, global military dominance, which requires the Pentagon to plant military bases at strategic places around the world and the Congress to pass ever larger military budgets. In 2002 President George W. Bush adopted the Pentagon strategy, first formulated a decade earlier by Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, of making the US the sole superpower, deterring foes and allies alike from even aspiring to regional dominance. When, in pursuit of this ultimate goal, the US pushed NATO further eastward toward the borders of Russia while pouring money and armaments into Georgia and training the Georgian army, it paved the way to the August war. Or, more precisely: the Russo-Georgian War exhibited the features of a proxy war pitting US-NATO imperialism against Russian people lives. [1] Russian forces thwarted Georgias armed provocations and issued a challenge to American and NATO policies in the borderlands.
In the course of conducting the war, Georgian ground troops and tanks deliberately targeted civilians, committed acts of ethnic cleansing, and wantonly destroyed civilian property in Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, and in villages along South Ossetias border with Georgia proper. If Russians overreacted in some way , it is pale in comparison to the crimes the US and its allies perpetrate every day on Iraqi and Afghan civilians. the crisis in the Caucasus highlighted the narrowly nationalist mindset of Western policy-makers and many of their publics. Secessionist movements exist in many of the multi-ethnic satellite states of the former Soviet Union, where Russians are in the minority. American and NATO policy-makers and neo-conservatives have been only too eager to exploit them. But once Russian tanks and ground forces moved into Georgia, abruptly halted US-NATO encirclement, and exposed the limits of American military power, the Western mass media immediately poured fiery scorn on brutal Russia, while ignoring (a) Georgias role in starting the conflict, and (b) US and Israeli military support for Georgia. Saakashvili made it easier for them to cover the war by hiring Aspect Consulting, a European PR firm that sent in a top executive to disseminate, daily, sometimes hourly, falsehoods about rampaging Russians attacking Georgian civilians. American journalists fostered Russophobic sentiment by spreading disinformation. American journalists fostered Russophobic sentiment by disseminating slanted war news, demonizing Russia as the evil aggressor and championing democratic, peace-loving Georgia. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice even asserted an American moral right to lecture Russia on how a civilized country should behave in the 21st century. All of which led Vladimir Putin to comment sarcastically, I was surprised by the power of the Western propaganda machine. . . .I congratulate all who were involved in it. This was a wonderful job. But the result was bad and will always be bad because this was a dishonest and immoral work.

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[Freeseselj]

May Bush be brought to justice and charged with assisting and aiding genocide, please God.

[onthegulf]

If Bush, Cheney or Rice actually gave Saakashvili the green light to attack the Ossetians, they too should be tried in international courts for ar crimes.

[Rupamjana1]

Jesus Christ Wat the american politicians think of themselves.They cannot play with any country like this especially with russians (eagles should not forget they are no match for bears)every nation should respect others & thats how we can coexists peacefully

bloody politicians & their politics..