So Russia and Georgia just went to war

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I'm personally rooting for Georgia.

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That's actually the old flag of Georgia.

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CNN lead off this morning with the story of an American athletes family memeber being murdered in China.  Then went on to the Edwards comedy.  After that it was the war in Georgia.

CNN is such a joke now.

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Luckily, France, in the name of EU, comes in the game and say:

"Please turn back to your positions of before the war"

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080809/wl_afp/georgiasossetiarussiaunrest_080809203148;_ylt=Av1VBQTjbEEFSUJapBQW8Z6s0NUE

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What did you expect Kouchner to say? Kill all Russians? Kill all Georgians? Kill all South Ossetis?

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Some Georgian athletes at the Olympics have said they are considering joining their army to fight.

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So, apparently the Georgians want a cease-fire, but Russians say it's a scam and they're continuing the war.

Damn Russians. At one time I was pro-Russia and supported Russia, but now I'm entirely behind Georgia.

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From the Russian propaganda papers:

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Because Russia is so perfect and peace-loving!

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Classy Russia.

Russia never tries to be classy in anything.

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I place blame on both countries but this should be a short, quick war in which Russia defeats Georgia in about a week and a half and South Ossentia gets what it wants.

Pretty much this. I don't expect this war too last much longer than 2 or 3 weeks.

Isn't that what they said about Chechnya?

Yes but there won't be the kind of resistance in Georgia as there was in Chechnya after the Russians are finished defeating the Georgians. I expect there to be a fairly strong insurgency for quite a while but it is nothing the Russians won't be able to handle.

I strongly disagree.

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From the front page of da Globe and Mail.

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