08.08.08 Sen. Barack Obama makes a statement about the invasion of Ge

08.08.08
DES MOINES, Iowa --The major candidates for president on Friday called on Russia and Georgia to end their military action and appealed for more diplomatic efforts aimed at avoiding a full-scale war.

Republican John McCain said Russia should withdraw its forces. Democrat Barack Obama condemned the violence and urged the two sides to show restraint.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has long pledged to take back control of South Ossetia, which battled Georgia for de facto independence in fighting that ended in 1992. On Friday, Moscow sent tanks into the region when Georgia launched a major military offensive to retake the breakaway province.

Campaigning in Iowa, McCain told reporters that the U.S. should convene an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council to resolve the crisis.

"What's most critical now is to avoid further confrontation between Russian and Georgian military forces," McCain said.

The U.S. should work with the European Union to put diplomatic pressure on Russia and help establish an independent peacekeeping force in South Ossetia, McCain said.

Obama, speaking to reporters during a flight to Hawaii for a vacation, said he's getting regular updates on the violence. He said it's important for the United States to work with international partners to end the conflict.

"I wholeheartedly condemn the violation of Georgia's sovereignty. I think it is important at this point for all sides to show restraint and to stop this arms conflict. Georgia's territorial integrity needs to be preserved and now is the time for direct talks," he said during a refueling stop in Sacramento, Calif.

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[Iberi1]

You mentioned Darfur. Let me note that Darfur covers an area of some 493,180 square kilometers (190,420 sq mi) — approximately the size of Spain.

[Iberi1]

Dear MountOlivet:

Are you trying to say that the U.N peace keepers are not enough for assignment in Tskhinvali region, which is one and a half times the area of Luxembourg?! So called South Ossetia covers an area of about 3,900 kmon the southern side of the Caucasus, separated by the mountains from the real Ossetia - Alania(part of Russia).

Luxemburg - is about 2,586 square kilometres (998 sq mi) in size.

[Iberi1]

Dear All:

Unlike most of you, I am on both sides of the fence. Unlike most of you, I also know something of what I am talking about.

[Iberi1]

Those sympathetic to Georgia can point out the hypocrisy of Russia brutally suppressing separatism in Chechnya while fostering it in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. But others recall the parallels the Russians continually emphasized over Kosovo with the breakaway regions of the Georgian state that have enjoyed de facto independence since the early 1990s.

[Iberi1]

History Repeats: Background Information about so called South Osetia and Soviet Invasion in Georgia.

[Iberi1]

FACT: South Ossetia is part of Georgia, as every country on earth recognises. You cannot invade your own country.

The region, which is one and a half times the area of Luxembourg[34] (roughly 6% of the total territory of Georgia) broke away from Georgia in the 1991--1992 war .

[gtubyyy]

seems to have a hard time remembering what

he was told to say

[datzfast]

talk, talk, talk, change change change change

bla, bla, bla, bore me to death.

[outragious007]

End the politics of fear and smear once and for all!

VOTE BARACK OBAMA PRESIDENT ON NOV. 4!!

Everybody go vote and bring your friends!

[dduble07]

DO NOT VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA! every time i see a supporter talking on the news or getting a exited about a crazy muslim who wants to tax your ass and your children.. And destroy america i die a little inside and want to leave this country..

[911insidejo8]

Yup, if there was ever any doubt, Obama, by shilling a lie, utterly proves his globalist agenda ambitions here.

I drive around the city and read all these mindless idiots' bumper stickers/t-shirts that advertise Obama's communist 1 world gvt and just want to cry. These people have no idea. And even sadder, it seems like they don't even WANT to know. They're happy to be useful idiots to the banker globalists.

[micers]

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[crusadex]

You mean get rid of our nukes,ask Russia to get rid of theirs and cancel all future military weapons development in the U.S.

I would be less than suprised if Obama was alot more Marx than he wants us to know.

You don't have Marxist freinds,coworkers and churches for most of your life and not know what the heck they are about.

That would be like Mr. and Mrs.Smith hanging out with crack heads for 20 years and saying,"Oh my they do drugs???I am shocked"

[Br0kenB0rder]

Cant have a Racist for president....

Guy runs away from his job

Gas is Crazy... Russia is Crazy

Well we cant be crazy and elect this jerk...

He has turned his backs on us too many times and he isnt even president yet... I dont want to see what he would do with real power..

The guy is just not right for president...

[vedicastrol]

a call for the UN to intercede is funny. Russia is on the Security council of the UN and has full veto power.

[Crisis7]

UN peacekeepers are useless, if they weren't a lot of the world's conflicts could be solved. What we need is to tell both forces to pull, while the world supervises. Then after hearing both sides of the story, we will make an OBJECTIVE and IMPARTIAL investigation and make our decisions based on evidence, not on propaganda.

[sjvietboy408]

4Love10: "Democrat+Republican=same agenda YAHOO!!!thank Obama,YAHOO FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!!"

I agree with you, looks like we have one of the many puppets of the New World Order right here criticizing the recent conflict between Georgia and Russia which is a creation of the illuminati's New World Order agenda. And we have sheeps in here cheering for Obama. All of the ignorant sheeps out there who doesn't or never even heard of the NWO is likely to call other people paranoid and freak ect.