Georgia shoots down Russian planes...

[madmyk]

For those of you that missed it this morning...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294476,00.html ...this may be the "old" one, trying to find the new one....

here we go...http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_25559.aspx

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/08/georgia.ossetia/index.html


Hmmm.....
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/georgia-russia-has-invaded-and-we-are-under-attack-13934899.html

I saw it on CNN/FOX this AM, haven't found it on a "reliable" news site yet.... I will keep looking

[yugoshooter]

Yep they are fighting as we speak. lets keep an eye on this folks.

[madmyk]

FOX NEWS just reported WE are sending troops/and or have a security force on the ground in Georgia. I was with a customer and missed most of it....

[tootall]

Check out the news coverage on this at http://www.russiatoday.com. Click on "watch RT" near the top right of page.

[ReverendGoo]

FOX NEWS just reported WE are sending troops/and or have a security force on the ground in Georgia. I was with a customer and missed most of it....

What I gather is that we have 1,000 marines over in Georgia who were there already for training and we were sending an envoy over to help with talks.

[madmyk]

What I gather is that we have 1,000 marines over in Georgia who were there already for training and we were sending an envoy over to help with talks.

Sounds more like what I am hearing now....
Marines on the ground, envoy enroute, and Georgia pulling more troops....

[techcom_dude]

Here we go

is this the final push that is needed to get the ball over the hill and get us into a major conflict?

could this be how it starts?(the end) maybe

but most likely things should calm down in a few days (I hope) and this will just be another close call

but it is still something to keep a eye on

[Imaginos]

The Mrs. is telling me the Georgians started it. Their Prez is nutz in a big way. The Ossetian region is a lot like what used to be Yugoslavia. Lots of ethnicities under intense pressure from their larger and more aggressive neighbors.
One thing to consider when you look at NATO expansion into the region.
Why?
Could it be that Georgia is the only land mass between the ports in the Black Sea and the Azerbaijzhani oil fields that the Euros are so very fond of?
There is certainly no other practical reason for NATO to have nay interest in the region. "Containing Iran" is a load of manure. Controlling oil fields is a completely different matter.

[merc40]

This should cause the alert scale to go red. The Georgians are requesting millitary assitance from us.