‘US, Israel forsook Georgia amidst storm’

Press TV
Friday, Aug 15, 2008

The Hezbollah leader says Georgia’s failure in Ossetia is a lesson to those who go on blind adventures with the US and Israeli support.

“Georgia relied on Israeli Generals as well as Israeli weapons and faced failure”, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech marking the second anniversary of the 33-day war with Israel in summer 2006.

The remarks were made shortly after Georgia faced a harsh response from Russia in its military action to retake control of South Ossetia last week.

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The Hezbollah leader said “what happened in Georgia is a message to all those (governments) who rely on America’s support and encouragement to go on adventures and wars which has not been studied”.

Many believe the US military support and its trumpeting of Tblisi’s NATO membership encouraged President Mikheil Saakashvili to launch the attack.

Analysts say Saakashvili miscalculated the Russian response to his forces entering the breakaway region. He waged the war but was not able to convince any NATO countries to support him.

“What America does is just to make statements”…. urge nations to risk military “confrontations which see no end and at the end abandon” the embattled nation, Nasrallah said.

Tbilisi’s failure, however could be a salutary lesson to its neighbors inclined to confront Moscow from under the US or Israeli security umbrella.

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7 Responses to “‘US, Israel forsook Georgia amidst storm’”

1. Linda in RI Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 4:42 am

   Damn right. If all other Countries learn not to let themselves get intimidated, maybe the Global Terrorists will F off! Because of their immature actions all over the World, America/cans are hated. NO, I don’t ever agree with our Govt, so don’t include me, I don’t worship evil and hatred.

2. CFarer43 Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 7:57 am

   Don’t overlook the fact that Saakashvili is a hothead who under the influence of fear, hatred of ethnic Russians and political ambitions undertook this blunder on the very day of the 2008 Olympics — a day when nations traditionally lay down their arms in respect of the brotherhood of man. A truly unprincipled criminal and thug!

3. Joseph C. Keller Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 8:34 am

   Keep your eye on the ball. Ossetia didn’t have anything Georgia wanted. Georgia had something “Russia” wanted: the pipeline route. Saakashvili was duped into the incursion into Ossetia, probably by provocations committed against the 1/3 Georgian population of S. Ossetia’s capital. Israel may well be largely to blame for the atrocities committed by the Georgian army they trained and (?) led. Unless indeed the atrocities attributed to Georgia were committed by special Israeli false flag units, or advance false flag units from Russia. Georgia’s war minister is a “former” Israeli national. It was “Russia” (New Khazaria) and the false friend fifth column, Israel, teaming up against Georgia. Why weren’t the mountain passes and tunnels dynamited? Weren’t the Israeli “advisors” smart enough to think of that? The plan was always to sabotage Georgia and hand it over to Russia. Bush’s role was to make the Georgians accept the Israelis as a condition of receiving U. S. aid money – and to take away 2000 of Georgia’s best troops to Iraq, and to train them in “counter-terrorism” instead of in defending their country.

4. The pResident Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 8:36 am

   Now you know America did attack Russia (they had the Georgians do it for us) because America only attacks those are weak and or are defenseless. Want some examples? Bullies, Americans are.

5. Prinzowhales Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 9:54 am

   Saakashvili, a lawyer with the skills to sway…with money from the enemy of all free humanity–the New World Order and its agent George Soros–and the cunning and lack of conscience of a psychopath…like Hitler…like Stalin…like Pol Pot…like Saddam Hussein…like George Bush has brought Georgia to its knees…loaded it with debt, destroyed the lives and property of its citizens and made it a dependency of interests foreign ot its own….in short, it is a microcosm of what the United States is fast becoming through crime, the destruction of its manufacturing base and the crumbling of its infrastructure while the work of its people are frittered away on war, regulation and paper work as a mountain of debt rising above them.

   Georgians and Americans need to look at the animals who are responsible for this bloody and wasteful state of affairs…at the oligarchs behind the Bushs and Saakashvilis and Olmerts and Browns of this world and provide them with permanent ‘closure.’

6. HiFly Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

   Lesson learned: Dont be a Puppet Government of the US or the Zionist Extremests of Israel… You might find the Russian Bear crushing you while you realized you are the smaller dog in the fight… It works for Cheney til he finally faces his War Crimes Trial, dont join him.

7. Survivor Says:
   August 15th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

   Good job Miss Rice. I like how you stand there like an ignoramus today while the little punk Saakashvili belittles the U.S. because we weren’t suicidal in intervening militarily for his war of aggression. Actually, everyone needs to understand that he had the green light to do what he did from his handlers, i.e., the D.C establishment both Dems and Repubs, the real criminals of our time. They didn’t realize Russia’s response because they are so use to bullying the world without repercussions, but now they bit off more than they could chew. Its absolutely incredulous how the freaking war criminal Bush and McCain can stand at a podium with a straight face and lecture Russia how they can’t be Bullies toward other countries, especially now in the 21st century. Also, respecting the territorial integrity of other countries????? These narcissistic criminals are unbelievable.