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Thread #113349   Message #2417237
Posted By: CarolC
18-Aug-08 - 05:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: War in Georgia (2008)
Subject: RE: BS: War in Georgia
Someone has been suggesting that the South Ossetians were unilaterally attacking Georgia and Georgian villages, and saying that the South Ossetians were the aggressors prior to Georgia's bombing and invasion of South Ossetia. This is not true. Georgia was also engaging in acts of aggression against South Ossetia. So for Georgia to be violating the cease fire and engaging in acts of aggression against South Ossetia, and to then bomb, shell, and invade South Ossetia on the pretext that it's doing so because it's a victim of South Ossetian aggression is simply a lie. Georgia's bombing and invasion of South Ossetia had nothing whatever to do with defending itself from acts of aggression from South Ossetia.

As we can see, Georgia was deliberately inflaming the situation in South Ossetia in order to create a pretext to bomb and invade.