[Elphaba]

Rumor is that the Russians are trying to find out where Georgia's presdient is located, capture him and try him for crimes against humanity. Seems like the Russians may just have the force to do just that.

This should tell you never to rely on rumor as an indication of true.

I’ve done a number of searches and discovered he is not in hiding whatsoever. In fact, Saakashvili went on CNN’s Wolf Blitzers’ show the other day, and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has had a meeting with Saakashvili.

Saakashvili is also in negotiations to stop the military actions. He is not missing.

The guy also probably thought the US or EU would come to his rescue (notice the EU flag behind him as he addresses the media -- English? Georgia is not a member of the EU) but that just isn't going to happen.

Georgia is a US ally who has courted admission to NATO for years, and was promised it would eventually happen. This has infuriated Russia, thus its hostilities that, because of its overreaction, have gone on to kill civilians in this conflict.

The US is not going to antagonize Russia

It already is. It has called for Russia to stop its bombings and an immediate halt to the fighting, accusing Russia of using the issue to bomb other regions in Georgia.

Additionally: U.S. to present U.N. resolution condemning Russia: WASHINGTON: The United States will offer a U.N. Security Council resolution later on Sunday condemning Russian military action against Georgia as unacceptable, a U.S. spokesman said. The spokesman told Reuters: “We will offer a resolution today that makes clear that the Russian actions in Georgia are unacceptable to the international community.” (A later story indicates the parties were not able to come to agreement.)

Bush is too professional to do something that stupid

~snort~

I only hope that the several black soldiers reportedly killed by Russian forces were not US soldiers or even US mercenaries working for the Georgians. That would not make the US look very good in the world -- condemning Iran for possibly, maybe, sort of assisting terrorists in Iraq but then assisting a terrorist government in Georgia.

Sort of how Bush condemned Iraq for possibly, maybe, sort of having WMDs, but then, despite numerous experts’ warnings, went in and massacred tens of thousands of innocent people, but found no WMDs. Yeah, I can see how that would be a problem.

I could find nothing about black soldiers whatsoever. I can only wonder if you have “soldiers” confused with “sea,” I.e., the Black Sea, where the Russians did bomb Georgian soldiers.

But even if this were true, I still could not find anything about Russia killing any specific solders, black or otherwise.

Again, we can pray these hostilities end soon and that these two Christian nations can end the bloodshed.

Christian nation’s”?
It would not matter if every single person living in Russia is a Christian--you would never acknowledge Russia’s, or Putin’s continued corruption, including a return to a Soviet-like government, unless you saw the missiles coming.

Having said all of this, Georgia’s military actions are inexcusable, in that it was in the middle of a cease fire, which it ignored. I think that is despicable.

Elphaba