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Russians Blame U.S. For War with Georgia-- Who's truly to blame for the war between Russia and Georgia?

A quarter of the Russians are looking at the United States to blame for their conflict with Georgia in the region of South Ossetia. Only one percent of the Russian people are willing to point the finger at Moscow. Over 50% of Russians easily blamed Georgia, and only 12% were willing to say that Russia, South Ossetia and Georgia were JOINTLY responsible for the war. Is the U.S. really to blame?
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raves +8   by LaZbum ~ McCain/Palin '08

Answered None of the above

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  • raves +1   [-] by Aesop1776

    Answered None of the above

    Russia is completely to blame, this was a purposeful effort to reestablish worldwide fear and respect for Russia.
  • raves +1   [-] by AMERAKITA

    Answered Georgia is mostly to blame for the war.

    Georgia is backed by US OUR money for their weapons,training and aid, thru NATO a private think tank global organization, that I believe Putin does not want to be a part of. On the night of 08-08-08 olympics Georgia killed 10 peace makers of Russia or South Osesia.. So Russia fought back. Putin has been watching the whole thing unfold Bush's skeeming plot...Our ships are all over the Georgia bays, we have missle shields in Poland and Russia is basically surrounded with our Navy and etc. I am hearing it is to distract Russia, from Bush going into Iran with our ships, you can find it all out there in cyber space.
  • raves +1   [-] by Johnie

    Answered The United States should take the blame.

    who knows what is really going on, Bush and his coherts will do anything to win an election!!
  • raves +1   [-] by judeee

    Answered Russia is mostly to blame for the war.

    The Georgian Govt. is Democratic and I am not all to sure they should have started fighting with S. Ossetia... I am equally as sure that Russia seized the opportunity to try to possibly knock Georgia down a peg and let them know that we could take over here... Russia would like to blame us for Georgia's actions because we have ties... It is almost like Russia is trying to tell us to watch out especially in light of Poland signing to take the Missles... We will just have to watch for another fire to start... Reminds me of Billy Joel song, "We didn't start the fire"... I guess no one wants to take the blame for the fires all over our world... God help us all....
  • raves +1   [-] by Bun

    Answered None of the above

    Blame Bush!
    oh a blame bush nd Cheney!
  • raves +1   [-] by westersmith

    Answered Russia is mostly to blame for the war.

    After reading this http://www.ireport.com/docs/D...

    I say only Russia to blame... and US to some extent...(Kosovo could have waited until Georgia and Ukraine would have gotten to NATO as well as the Polands rockets...)
  • raves +1   [-] by highlatte

    Answered Russia is mostly to blame for the war.

    Not mostly. 100%. I really don't give a damn who Putin and his Russian cronies blame for what.
  • raves +1   [-] by Michael

    Answered None of the above

    It's our fault for allowing a selfish pig to sit in office. All Russia did was took a page from Bush's book "How to take over an area without caring what the people say". Putin is a Dick-C for the move and a G-Bush for playing the "did I just do that" reply when confronted.
  • raves +1   [-] by Nica22

    Answered Russia is mostly to blame for the war.

    There just looking for someone else to blame and point the finger at....plus, why not the U.S.....were supposedly the reason why there is war in Iraq...and many of our men dying...I DON'T blame Bush....we are ONE nation...UNITED...therefore, we stick by and motivate our president and the people in it NO MATTER what!
  • raves +1   [-] by Smokey

    Answered Russia is mostly to blame for the war.

    F#$%@ and Nuke Russia!
  • raves +1   [-] by I Saw The Light

    Answered Russia is mostly to blame for the war.

    Russia is all to blame. Russians are Bolsheviks that should be drowned one and all in dirty toilets.
  • raves +1   [-] by DJ

    Answered Russia is mostly to blame for the war.

    We are not all that powerful anymore.to decide a war these factions in Eastern Europe chose to wage.
  • raves +1 -1 [-] by Obamacan

    Answered None of the above

    It's George W. Bush's fault
  • raves +1 -1 [-] by vickenstein

    Answered The United States should take the blame.

    isn't this more u.s./israel sponsored bullshit?
  • raves +1   [-] by luvs2boat

    Answered Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia are all equally to blame for the war.

    Give me a break! This is the 21st century...

    Russia is only mad at the US because we are planning to give Poland defensive missles...they're ok with that they just don't want us to give them the radar that goes with it.

    I have mixed feelings about this because I think that Russia would like to end up in Poti (Georgia) to take over their OIL PORTS!

    Some of you need to read up on what's going on in the world and not assume it's anyones fault. It certainly isn't GW Bush's fault!
    All he did was to send the troops from Georgia back home from Iraq and send in some food??
  • raves +1   [-] by JN

    Answered Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia are all equally to blame for the war.

    Obama recently implied that the U.S. attack on Iraq is similar to the recent Russian attack on Georgia?

    It becomes clearer and clearer everyday that Obama doesn't like facts but maybe he should try to muster the strength to re-familiarize himself with the facts about the U.S. attack on Iraq, including United Nations Resolution 1441 and the United States’ elected representatives' Iraq War Resolution.

    After the first Gulf war regarding running Saddam Hussein’s Iraq military out of Kuwait, the United States was pressured to submit to 10-15 years of tedious and high cost U.N. authorized sanctions against Iraq, United Nations Resolutions and the wrangling of a consensus within the U.N. to attack Iraq in 2003 after a U.N. resolution authorized that 2003 invasion of Iraq, while during those prior 10-15 years America foot a large portion of the bill enforcing Iraqi No-fly zones (after running Hussein’s Iraq military out of Kuwait which they tried to conquer for land and oil resources).

    However, Russia reportedly tells no one of their plans to attack Georgia out-of-the-blue and puts no effort into providing any evidentiary case of any of their (Russia's) last minute claims that Georgian transgressions against humanity or human rights were being inflicted upon the people of ...
    Obama recently implied that the U.S. attack on Iraq is similar to the recent Russian attack on Georgia?

    It becomes clearer and clearer everyday that Obama doesn't like facts but maybe he should try to muster the strength to re-familiarize himself with the facts about the U.S. attack on Iraq, including United Nations Resolution 1441 and the United States’ elected representatives' Iraq War Resolution.

    After the first Gulf war regarding running Saddam Hussein’s Iraq military out of Kuwait, the United States was pressured to submit to 10-15 years of tedious and high cost U.N. authorized sanctions against Iraq, United Nations Resolutions and the wrangling of a consensus within the U.N. to attack Iraq in 2003 after a U.N. resolution authorized that 2003 invasion of Iraq, while during those prior 10-15 years America foot a large portion of the bill enforcing Iraqi No-fly zones (after running Hussein’s Iraq military out of Kuwait which they tried to conquer for land and oil resources).

    However, Russia reportedly tells no one of their plans to attack Georgia out-of-the-blue and puts no effort into providing any evidentiary case of any of their (Russia's) last minute claims that Georgian transgressions against humanity or human rights were being inflicted upon the people of Ossetia. Massive numbers of Russian tanks and infantry move into Georgia without hesitation and the Russian government is reportedly acting as if the invasion into Georgia was a last minute response to protect the people of Ossetia from the Georgian government when we have a good amount of knowledge about how long it is reportedly needed to logistically move that type of hardware and infantry into attack position and that time is a lot longer than a couple of days. There has been no reports that Russia put in any real effort of making a case to the U.N. for sanctions against Georgia and to build a case and seek an authorization for their attack from the fellow United Nations countries by submitting a compilation of any evidence that Georgia was violating human rights let alone put in the 10-15 years that the United States put into to make the case against a second Iraq attack.

    U.S. attack against Iraq was not a last minute, out-of the blue attack. It was backed by a U.N. resolution, 10-15 years of U.N sanctions and a U.S. declaration of war.

    The Russian attack against Georgia WAS NOT BACKED BY a U.N. resolution, 10-15 years of evidence building and U.N sanctions and consequentially a well documented declaration of war based on reasonably conveyed and widespread evidence.
  • raves +1   [-] by candy "The Original"

    Answered The United States should take the blame.

    The bush & mcsame orchestrated this for the purpose of getting votes
    for Mcsame....nuff said united blame bush mcsame orchestrated purpose votes mcsame nuff
  • raves +1   [-] by Max Parker

    Answered Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia are all equally to blame for the war.

    Georgia provoked Russia, and Russia's response was disproportionate. South Ossetia also made the mistake of trying to be an independent country in a tense area of the world
  • raves +1   [-] by c

    Answered None of the above

    Russia attacked, why would anyone else or any other country be to blame.
  • raves +1   [-] by Axl Snaks

    Answered Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia are all equally to blame for the war.

    They are all fighting, no matter who provoked who, they are involved in war.
    Because of that they all should be blamed, both sides have killed and both sides fight still.
  • raves +2   [-] by divingpilot

    Answered None of the above

    Human are:

    "Evil is the blemish of our species that will not spare even the best man."

    -Emanuel Cant



    "Life we may evade, but death we will not."

    -T.S. Elliot



    "War would end if the dead could come back."

    -Anonymous



    "Only the dead have seen the end of war."

    -Plato


    life evade death elliot war dead -anonymous dead war -plato
  • raves +2   [-] by gmaze

    Answered Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia are all equally to blame for the war.

    It's everyone's fault. People in that part of the world need to get over themselves and learn to live together. Ever heard of California invading Oregon? lol
  • raves +1   [-] Axl Snaks replied to gmaze
    They sort of are

    A lot of rich Californians are moving up into Oregon and making the land more expensive.
    It's a pseudo-invasion...
  • raves +2   [-] by Chris [Ninja]™

    Answered Russia is mostly to blame for the war.

    Totally Russia. It's not like Russia hasn't done this before! Does anybody remember Chechnya? It's almost the same thing, Russian begin to have a conflict with a small percentage of the population of another country. In this case the Ossetians, who were given Russian passports and citizenship. Then they bomb that crap out of the whole country. Georgia is in a very strategic position for Russia on the Black Sea. Russia also LOVES to spin propaganda. Don't be fooled America, and don't point the finger at Bush just because you hate him.
  • raves +1   [-] by doctor dee

    Answered None of the above

    i think they all have equal shares in it
  • raves +1   [-] by franksx

    Answered The United States should take the blame.

    Bush-Cheney, the two-headed creep, created this fiasco. Does anyone
    truly believe the Georgian puppet has the guts to tangle with Putin unless
    he stupidly was convinced the creep would support him?
  • raves +3   [-] by coonass

    Answered Russia is mostly to blame for the war.

    This was a very well-planned invasion. Nothing about it was spontaneous. The Russian "peacekeepers" were stirring up hatred among the Ossetians and causing violent attacks against Georgians - what were the Georgians to do, let them cross the border without putting up a fight?

    I think the worst thing the Georgians can be accused of is letting the Russians pick the time and place for this war, but they didn't have very many choices.

    May God damn Vladimir Putin to Hell.
  • raves     [-] Chris [Ninja]™ replied to coonass
    Very good!
  • raves +1   [-] by lfc

    Answered None of the above

    I have no idea who or what to believe ...
  • raves +1   [-] by Scorpio

    Answered Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia are all equally to blame for the war.

    How can this be the U.S.'s fault at all? If someone knows please tell me...