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Georgia’s military chief sacked over war
Reuters
Tuesday, October 4, 2008
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili replaced the country’s military leader on Tuesday, saying “shortcomings” during a war with Russia need addressing.
“We must not forget that the enemy still stands at our door,” said Saakashvili, who had not previously criticised the military’s performance despite Russia driving the Georgian army from breakaway South Ossetia in just a few days in August’s war.
“I want to thank the previous chief of the general staff, but I also want to say that the shortcomings we uncovered must be eliminated,” he said.
Russian troops pulled back from buffer zones last month to within South Ossetia and the second breakaway region of Abkhazia, having repelled a Georgian bid to retake South Ossetia from pro-Moscow separatists.
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Several thousand Russian troops remain in both regions, which the Kremlin has recognised as independent states.
Tens of thousands of Georgian villagers displaced by the fighting remain homeless.
Pro-Western Saakashvili, under fire from opponents over his handling of the crisis, told a meeting of Defence Ministry officials he had replaced Chief of Staff Zaza Gogava.
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November 4th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Typical for a “democratic” leader — blame everyone else for your personal failures.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:24 am
David taking on Goliath only worked in the bible.
November 5th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Wow they admit it was Georia who started it.I saw it on bbc only hours later to see Richard Holbrooke(frm. ambassador to UN and acting secretary of state under clinton) go on national tv and lie his ass off and states as a matter of factly that Russia started it.Holbrooke is also the dirtbag who laughs when alex yells at him “were not your slaves Holbrooke ” at bilderberg 07 in canada.Hers his CFR bio http://www.cfr.org/bios/548/ri.....rooke.html
November 5th, 2008 at 7:22 am
I forgot to mention why I brought up Holbrooke lying about Georgia ,look for his name to be kicked around when Obama starts making appointments to foreign policy positions He is likey to be a prominet figure in the coming Obama administration.The fact he lied should factor in to disqualifying him If enough people bring it up ,I saw the video on msnbc so it is floating around somewhere and most likely archived by msnbc.