Shvili is a suffix which means "son of".

The President of Georgia committed war crimes just as George W. Bush has committed war crimes and other high treasons, including the manipulation of intelligence to invade Iraq. Russia should demand the Georgian President be held accountable for his attempted genocide of civilians in Ossetia. And if the USA attacks Iran, there will be a revolt in the USA to oust Cheyney, Bush, AND Pelosi and the "end timers" waiting and hastening the return of Jesus won't be able help them. The Jig is up.

Russia is in a military alliance with Iran (Persia) as Russia has sold over 6 BILLION dollars of weaponry to Iran recently. As the Bible predicted, this alliance between Russia and Persia (Iran) would happen in the "End Times". Russia needs to have access thru Turkey to get to Syria, Iran and Lebanon as well as the Mediterranean Sea. This is all a set up to try to destroy Israel. Read Ezekiel 38 in the Old Testament if you wish to know the truth of the matter and WATCH events surrounding the Russians, Iranians and those alligned with them which will eventually attack Israel. By the way, Israel will sustain major losses but will NOT be destroyed and the attacking armies will lose 5/6's of thier forces in this battle.

"Russia is being a pompous, arrogant , like normal. They kill innocent civilians to keep their control over their aspirations of a Russian oil monopoly." When US/Israel and the other coalition of the dummies invaded/occupied Iraq and murdered and crippled millions When Israel bombed Lebanon and murdered 1000s where was your indignation? Georgia wants 15days of war Russia should let them have it.

means son of Joseph or son of the Jews (i've seen both) or . . Thanks for the explanation of the suffix.

Russians are not only to be commended for their actions,they should be praised for their valiant effort to defend South Osetia. Georgia had better stop playing with guns,or as the saying goes those that play with fire get burnt. the people of Georgia had better get a new leader this one is no good for them or the rest of the world.

And so the pigeons come home to roost. Grim vindication for all of us who said that unilateral violations of international law by the USA would lead to untold mischief in the world. The USA has sown the wind and will now reap the whirlwind. All the USA can do is snarl and whine; but has No real military options and certainly cannot claim any moral high ground having loudly proclaimed the "right" to pre-emptively invade other sovereign nations. The price of hypocrisy, as always, is indeed high!

Ask the dead ethnic South Ossetians if Georgia Attacked.

the big threat to security and stability in the world is not Russia. USA are at first place, gold medal. Russia maybe silver or bronze but with a lot of distance to recover. for what i'm seeing around the whole globe is the army of the united states that is putting to iron and fire the planet from over 50 years. let's count the wars between USA and the rest of the world. let's shiver.

I repeat: let's think about NPT and Israel and India and USA. forget Iran, they allow NPT. and Russia too and they are only having business in nuclear technology not for weapons (officially). if USrael have proof about illegal meanings so where are them? remember only Israel and NPT. why israel think that the entire world have to believe in somebody that is not leal? please...we want one a weight and a measure, not racism among countries.

by Israeli advisors whose jobs were to make Georgians battle ready, to initiate the assault on the Russian peacekeepers and to then step back as Georgians were gathering forward thrust Probably they are now looking for an airlift en masse out of Georgia, hundreds of them, before the anger sets in amongst the Georgians at being had not only by the Israeli advisors but also by the two Hebrew speaking cabinet ministers who along with M.Saakashvili will be deposed and go into exile. May they be so lucky. The job of the Israelis and the Hebrew speaking cabinet ministers was to mire Russia in Georgia for a long time so that Russia could not help Iran as it was being attacked by USrael. There will now be no assault on Iran.

I can only pray and contact my Congressman in the hope that we (the United States) does what is right and comes,quickly mind you, to the aid of our friends in Georgia no matter what the need. Not all Americans are so tired of war that we want peace at any cost i.e.democrates. America is still the greatest country on Earth so lets get in there. Israel is doing the right thing so we should too!

The more of these e-mail talkbacks I read from left wingers around the world, I hope you don't cry to us like you ALWAYS do, when the russians or the nazis or anybody else that is constantly kicken your ass,is rollin over your helples little country as they do every 40 or 50 years. We might not bail you out this time.

this guy keeps saying things like "the defense minister" and putting things in quotes, saying "sources say": WHO'S defense minister? WHO are you quoting? WHAT sources?????????

Geargian never attacked Russia, but Ossetian people do not want to be in geogian country after all actions from Georgia due to last 15 years (war,war,war). What are you doing in same cause??? Its a genocide of people as 2nd world war. Our contry (Russia), its a garantee of peace on Caucasus region. Weapon sales for Georgia its not pease providing, its a war helping. Sorry for bad english.

The Monroe Doctrine is a U.S. doctrine which, on December 2, 1823, stated that European powers were no longer to colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations of the Americas. The United States planned to stay neutral in wars between European powers and their colonies. However, if later on, these types of wars were to occur in the Americas, the United States would view such action as hostile. President James Monroe first stated the doctrine during his seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress, a defining moment in the foreign policy of the United States. Most recently, during the Cold War, the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (added during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt) was invoked as a reason to intervene militarily in Latin America to stop the spread of Communism. [Wikipedia]. Remember Granada,1983 ? How the behavior of nuclear power (Russia) is differernt from inverted Monroe doctrine ?

and I am sure that those officials in the Ministry of Defence got an "envelope" when they stamped the approval. No one in that ministry does anything for nothing.

Thank you TD. I believe that word is true because of its source is from the Word of God which is directing us to the future. Very soon it will be a reality. Keep watching

The government in Georgia should know not to push the Russians they are looking for a reason to flex thier muscles.The Russians are going to have thier way in the region and if you get in the way your people will have to defend themselves from the Russian army. That is thier version of deplomacy...And your English is Much better than my Russian!