"ought to be castigated for ""picking a fight"" with the Russians. Oh, Georgia's leader also ""prostrat[es] himself before America""? (Not many people seem to take Venezuela's leader to task for ""prostrating himself before"" Cuba, China, or Iran!) Maybe the conclusion to take from all this is that the only standard for being a hero in this day and age is opposing the United States, and the United States alone; all else is irrelevant, never mind what the geopolitical situation is. 

 In any case, I have added this op-ed article by Georgia's president (notice, by the way, that Mikheil with an E is the name used): 
 *Unprovoked Onslaught by Mikheil Saakashvili in The Wall Street Journal.    —˜˜˜˜ 

 That article makes me laugh.That's just a mix of lies and propaganda (as always).Pathetic. 
 P.S have you ever heard me calling Chavez a 'hero'? 

 == POV nonsense == 

 The partisan BHHRG has frequently claimed that the new government immediately set out to settle scores with Shevardnadze era officials. 

 We are told that the British Helsinki HH group is partisan while at the same ""Freedom House"" whose leaders have included former CIA director Woolsey is to be taken seriously? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by   . 

 ==LLM or JD== 
 Did Saakashvili get JD from Columbia or LLM?   
 You don't get any degreee when you come to study in USA with Muskee grant. You come with J visa to study and go back to work in your country for 2 years. YOu can not work in the United States with the degrees granted by exchange visitor programs. Whatever he writes in his resume is good for some PR in Georgia. As a matter of fact he was just an intern who received some allowance and worked for a Lawyers Office on an assignment. The program sends you to work for them and pays you allowance (that time it was about 1200 USD a month). 15 years ago you could rent a place and live somehow with that money. TOday you can do nothing in NYC with 1200 a month  —Preceding unsigned comment added by   •    

 == Authoritarian tendencies: the 2004 election == 

 Shouldn't Saakashvili's 2004 election victory with 96% of the vote raise some eyebrows and be mentioned in the ""authoritarian tendencies"" section? Similar articles on Lukashenko and elections in Belarus do not hesitate to mention much less improbable outcomes as evidence of the regime's undemocratic nature.   

 :The 2004 elections were held amid the post-Rose Revolution euphoria. In addition, many political groups, which are now in opposition to Saakashvili, were part of his United National Movement at that time. Hence, it is not surprising that he won a landslide victory with 96%.   

 == Hand grenade == 

 Let me get this straight, the grenade was live but didn't detonate? If it didn't detonate, then it wasn't live, now was it?   
 :Authorities said it was and this was widely reported e.g. . It appears the impact was cushioned and so it didn't explode. It is not up to us to dispute official sources. From what I can tell it is possible for a live grenade to fail to explode and they are a recognised hazard since they deteriate over time making it even more likely they will explode (see unexploded ordinance). If you truly believe it isn't possible that a live grenade will fail to explode then I suggest you write and tell all the sources that they are wrong. Perhaps you can volunteer to handle a unexploded 'live' (but not live in your eyes) grenade?    

 ==His Faith== 
 *What about this guy's faith? Is he a christian, muslim, or a jew? That should be mentioned. 
    
 :You forgot Zoroastrian, Atheist, Buddhist, Yezidi, Hindu...     

  
 ===2008 parliamentary polls=== 
 I added this m