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Video shows Georgian troops shooting at civilians: comments

quoteRichard Zimmermann

August 08, 2009, 07:31

Georgian troops have no business in So. Osettia. let the Osettians decide their future and be at peace within the Russian fedration. it worries me to think what unthinkable genocide would the Georgians have commited if allow them to take So. Osettia by force. Love my country but the US should stop backing the present Georgian government and that lunatic of head of state.

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