Denys Beauchemin in his usual unbiased way quoted :

> John McCain: "... Russian President Medvedev and Prime Minister 
> Putin must understand the severe, long-term negative consequences 
> that their government's actions will have for Russia's relationship 
> with the U.S. and Europe. It is time we moved forward with a 
> number of steps...."

Denys, I don't want to get into a lengthy, discussion about Georgia/USA and 
Russia but I just wondered if you had researched the reasons for why this 
"war" occurred?

Did you know that the US has been helping Georgia build up their armed 
forces in an unprecedented way with both arms and "advisers"? Did you 
realise that the Georgian Government decided to use these armed forces to 
invade Southern Ossetia to try to force them not to break away from Georgia 
and declare independence? Did you think that the Russians would be too 
afraid of the US influence there to respond to the aggression in the heavy 
handed way that they did?

No doubt you will produce all kinds of Bush/McCain propaganda which 
"proves" that Georgia was the victim here rather than the villain but I bet 
there are many families in Southern Ossetia who have lost family members to 
Georgian aggression who could tell you differently.

Just my $0.02.

Cheers,

John Dunlop

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