Reply #252: Putin suggests U.S. pushed Georgia to war

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Source: The Seattle Times Company



The United States and Russia on Thursday traded some of their sharpest words over the conflict in Georgia, including a suggestion by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that Washington provoked the fighting to sway the outcome of the U.S. presidential race.

The Cold War-style barbs, hurled at long range from the two capitals and face-to-face at the United Nations, underscored the breakdown of diplomatic efforts to resolve three weeks of tension over Russia's military intervention in the former Soviet republic.

Putin did not specify which U.S. candidate he thought the crisis was intended to help, but the official RIA-Novosti news agency quoted experts as saying it had boosted the campaign of the presumptive Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain.

Russia faced international isolation two days after recognizing the independence of a pair of rebel Georgian regions at the heart of the conflict. It won no support at meetings of the U.N. Security Council and an Asian alliance that embraces Russia, China and four Central Asian nations.



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I'm writing Pelosi - we have got to start impeachment hearing immediately before they get us in a shooting war