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Bush: Russia's actions raise serious questions; Lavrov: America must choose
Yizhak Benhorin
Published: 14.08.08, 08:42
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31. Seems the Russians are as stupid as Iranians
Gee ,   Zikron Yaakov   (08.14.08)
Both are facists and both seem to think that telling America who their friends will be is somehow a smart move. Both are wrong.
32. AREN'T YOU GLAD THAT.........................
IERGLIB DRAWDE   (08.14.08)
THE SOVIET UNION HAS BEEN DESTROYED ? THIS ROCKET SCIENTIST RESIDING ON PENSYLVANIA AVE HAS SCUTTLED THE ENTIRE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION ! WELCOME TO THE NEW COLD WAR ! WELCOME TO THE NEW FRONTIER OF IDIOCY !
33. You hit the nail on the head, #27
Cameron ,   USA   (08.14.08)
And what a strange, often mystifying, nail this low-grade obsession & hysteria with Bush is. Even with the US on the sidelines simply observing this Russian move, I read this unending shriek & screech about Dubya in the Ynet commentaries the last couple of days. Damned if you do something, damned if you don't. freaky This spooky pathology with Bush has evolved(?) from eye-rolling tiresome into plain weird.
34. Address the decent ordinary Russians this time
No To Tyrants   (08.14.08)
1000s of years of shameful Russian leaders neglected the nation and Putin is not different. The ordinary Russians are decent, and I hope they can overthrow these arrogant tyrants. We should address the ordinary Russians and appeal to their decency and pride to act like a civilized nation, and not in the service of greedy immoral tyrants. Russia deny the service to this tyrannical Putin leadership. Russia join the decent free world and let us build a good future together. No to the Putins, Iran's and Syria's junta...no to genocide in Sudan, no to Zimbabwe's failed president...
35. USA - Hope of the world.
Nathan Rai ,   Bangalore   (08.14.08)
After Iraq and Serbia , Rices rantings will only evoke well deserved derison. Her myopic idiocy legitamized Hamas and Hezbollah, while seeking to delegitamize Mubarak. Thank G-d for a real man called Putin.
36. To Lev Bronstein, No. 12
New Yorker ,   New York, U.S.A.   (08.14.08)
Mr. Bronstein (or whatever your real name is) - Russia has overstepped an important boundary here. The country with a third-world economy, whose fortunes derive from unusually high prices on natural resources, is simply no match for the combined economic and military strength of the West. Russia will be confronted - it just crossed the red line. It's difficult to say now in which way - but there are plenty of possibilities of doing a great damage to Russia without resort to military force.
37. deja vu all over again
Arie ,   BaGolan   (08.14.08)
Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine, Georgia: Just the same old Russian bear beating up on those less fortunate in order to capture the oil. Here come the lefties trying to find ways to justify this!
38. Reality check
Arie ,   BaGolan   (08.14.08)
Putin knows full well that there is a 50-50 chance of an appeasement government under Obama may come to fruition. Even Rice has surrendered to the appeasement point of view in the hopes of maintaining an office under an obama regime, Chamberlain is making a comeback
39. #6 Dude, you really are too twisted for color tv!! Go listen
to some Mozart for ,   a change!! Rueben   (08.14.08)
40. choose Georgia it could benefit US strategic interests
zionist forever   (08.14.08)
This is Russian big talk, they have never done anything for the US eccept make trouble during and since the end of the cold war. The former Soviet sattalites are prooving very usefull to the west in the form of arms sales, permiting the US to mount radar and missle defense interceptors. If the US takes Georigias side it wont make Americas relations with Russia better but it wont make them worse it will upset the Russians but they know its the Americans who have the real political, economic and milltary muscle in the world and not them. Russia can bully smaler countries the US can bully just about anybody.
41. choose between KGB or a loose canon
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42. I can now see that YELTSIN was overthrown in a KGB coup
Alan ,   SA   (08.14.08)
43. Don't pray for WW3
D.C. ,   Hungary, Budapest   (08.14.08)
I believe all sides should be cautious. First of all, Israel was the one who trained and gave weapons to the Georgians. Also, the Georgians started this war, not Russia. Russia just defended South Ossetia, because it's belong to them and S. Ossetia came under fire first, and not Georgia as the news are stating a week later. And if some sort of war is going to break out, Israel will be the first one on Russia's and it's allies, i.e. Iran's, target list, because in someway Israel was the proxy in this war. So, meditate a little before anyone wishes war here, because this time maybe real nukes will fall from both sides and not just imagined Iranian ones. Some reports says that the Russians already deployed SS-21 Scarab launchers, that are able to carry tac-nukes. The Russians are righteously going to defend their territory, South Ossetia and if the Georgians, whose are the real aggressors and whose killed thousands of civilians are still wants to fight, the Russians are going to respond in the same aggressive manner. So, please don't pray for WW3, because in nuclear war, there is no winner, just losers.
44. Russia is on Georgian soil 43#
Steven Wilson ,   Anchorage, Alaska   (08.14.08)
Just because they start handing out passports to United States citizens.....does it make the United states their territory. If the Russians want to go there then so be it. We're tire of there crap. And we have big submarines with big nuclear missiles right off shore. Two can play that game.
45. Territorial integrity
Susan ,   Kfar Saba   (08.14.08)
The Georgians have a right to maintain their territorial intergrity. What if Mexico gave Mexican citizenship to Americans of Mexican heritage in New Mexico and then they wanted to break off from the US and join Mexico? Do you think that the US would sit back and let that happen?
46. Arm former USSR countries
Susan ,   Kfar Saba   (08.14.08)
I think that the US and Israel should arm to the teeth all of the small countries that used to be part of The Soviet Union. They should all join NATO as well. It looks like these countries will have to stand up together against the Russian bully. It seems like this will be the only way to keep Russai at bay.
47. Gereral Patton was right about Russia!
Roxy ,   Israel   (08.14.08)
t the end of WWII Patton accurately assessed the shift of the balence of world power which that produced and forsaw the enormous danger of Russian aggression against the west. Alone among the US leaders he WARNEDTHAT THE US SHOULD ACT IMMEDIATELY WHILE HER SUPREMACY WAS UNCHALLANGED TO END THAT DANGER! uNFORTUNATELY HIS WARNING WENT UNHEEDED, AND HE WAS SILENCED QUICKLY BY A CONVENIENT "ACCIDENT". So it seems that the world was warned about the dangers of Russia and now we are facing them as Patton predicted!
48. Patton's Warning rings true
Millicent ,   Israel   (08.14.08)
Patton said" If we have to fight theRussians, we must fight them now is the time,from now on we will get weaker,they will get stronger." Patton immediately recognized the Soviet Danger and urged a course of action which wouldhave saved Eastern Europe from the Communist yoke with the expendiditure of far lessAmerican blood than that spilled in Korea and Vietnam and would have obivated both those later wars not to mention this coming war WWIII! Patton new this Several months before the end of WWII he recognized the fearful danger to the west posed by Russia, we warned the US President and the world, yet he was ignored and murdered..... now we unfortunatley are seeing his words ring true! Russia is and always will be a danger to her neighbors like Georgia, and to the rest of the world, whether it be by delaying sanctions on Iran, selling arms to radical Islamisit Countries! Russia is the real enemy!
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