SOUTH OSSETIA : BUSH SPEAKS

George Bush has requested that Russia stop bombing Georgia.

I agree with this, but only partly.

I think that Russia should expel Georgia from South Ossetia, and then halt at the Georgian border, and I think this is what will happen. I believe Russia may have the moral and legal right to attack military convoys and installations within Georgia that are supporting and supplying the current Georgian assault on South Ossetia, but possibly restrict attacks to outside a designated area which would contain Georgian civilians. Once these supply and support lines are disrupted then there should only be military action inside South Ossetia until surrender or retreat.

Unwarranted attacks on unrelated civilian areas are totally unacceptable, and will no doubt escalate the situation, and portray Russia as the aggressor, which we now know is not the case, despite the attempts of certain media to obscure the identities of the murderers.

As I understand it, tit-for-tat skirmishes have been ongoing for weeks. But then suddenly Saakashvili lays waste to the capital of South Ossetia, killing one and a half thousand civilians!!

Why? Why the sudden and drastic change in policy? Saakashvili has got a lot of explaining to do.

And why was a UN resolution condemning violence on both sides rejected by the USA, UK and others?

And the declaration of war by Georgia today was taken suspiciously quickly.

Georgia has brought this on itself. Georgia has shown itself to be a bloodthirsty aggressor and untrustworthy. But there is absolutely no way that Saakashvili would have embarked on such bloodshed without the approval of certain circles within NATO and the USA and possibly the EU. However, I think he and they have dropped a bigger and hairier bollock than Bilderberg. I think the diversion of the Olympics was supposed to confuse the situation so that the number of deaths and the blame would be obscured and the identity of the instigator unresolved.

If that was the plan, it has failed.

The whole world knows that Georgia was the bloody aggressor.

One and a half thousand civilians are dead, but there are many, many more survivors who will no doubt willingly relate their experiences when this ends. I hope the media of NATO countries report the experiences of these survivors.

But for Bush to be concerned for civilians is a bit rich. How many Iraqi kids did the Coalition of the Killing blow to pieces to protect them from…being killed by someone else?