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