“Civilians Were The Only Targets Left, But Russia Kept Bombing”
“I looked the man in the eye … I was able to get a sense of his soul.” - (George W. Bush, 2001)
“I looked into President Putin’s eyes and I saw the KGB (saw the letters KGB).” - (Upon search, seeing it attibuted to Powell, McCain, and most recently Cheney)
“I met him, fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong. I met this six-year-old child, with this blank, pale, emotionless face and, the blackest eyes… the devil’s eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply… evil.” - (Dr. Sam Loomis - “Halloween” - 1978)
“… Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. And, you know, the thing about a shark… he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be living… until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all the poundin’ and the hollerin’, they all come in and they… rip you to pieces.” - (Quint - “JAWS” - 1975)
Civilians were only targets left as Russia kept bombing
By Tom Lasseter - (McClatchy)
GORI, Georgia — On the day that Russia declared an end to its war in Georgia, Jumberi, a taxi driver who gave only his first name, took a long drag on a Marlboro Red cigarette and said that after the first bomb hit, all he saw was body parts.
He motioned to the shattered windshield of his Toyota Corolla and the bloody handprints on the side of the car — left there when the wounded and dying collapsed as they begged him to take them to the hospital.
“I heard the sound of the jets, but I did not see them,” he said. “They were just bombing and bombing the city. Everything was out of control.”
It wasn’t clear what military targets were left for Russian aircraft to hit on Tuesday. Georgian soldiers had fled their positions sometime overnight and all that remained of their presence were abandoned vehicles _two transport trucks crashed in the middle of the road and the charred remains of an armored personnel carrier, its bits blown across the street.
Yet explosions boomed across Gori and the valley around it, and their toll was grimly evident.
Jumberi pointed to his backseat, where blood was pooled on the floorboard — left, he said, by a man who staggered over to his cab before an ambulance took him away.
A few minutes later, three Russian helicopters launched missiles over a ridgeline in the distance. The clouds overhead, dark with rain, flashed with every explosion.
Eteri Tatishvilli marveled at the continuing attack.
“The Georgian troops have withdrawn completely,” she said. “The last time I saw them was last night.”
Miles away, at one of Tbilisi’s main hospitals, doctors struggled to care for the wounded, who arrived in waves throughout the day. Many were elderly. None was a soldier.
“Just now, we admitted eight patients,” said Tamara Saria, a doctor. “The age of all of them was no less than 80.”
“Do you see any military people here?” asked Nikoloz Kvachatze, another doctor. “These are all civilians.”
He was walking past an 80-year-old woman who had shrapnel wounds across the right side of her face. The woman, frail with thin white hair, was gasping and wheezing into an oxygen mask
“They are punishing us,” Kvachatze said of the Russians. “They are punishing us for trying to be independent.”
The Russian defense ministry told state news reporters in Moscow that reports of continued fighting were propaganda.
Ministry officials said they had “not been surprised by Georgia’s reports alleging that Russia is still continuing to fire. … We have expected similar informational provocations and are sure that they will continue, including the use of previously prepared TV and photo shots.”
Stretched across a bed inside the Tbilisi hospital, Erna Lapachi was a bloody refutation of the Kremlin’s rhetoric.
On Tuesday, she’d been walking toward the military hospital in Gori, where she works as a nurse, when a bomb fell. “The last thing I saw was people torn apart,” she said.
Her legs were bandaged, with dark red spots leaking through where the shrapnel had torn her flesh.
“They were bombing civilians,” said an ambulance driver, who was standing in front the Tbilisi hospital with colleagues after they’d made their runs back from Gori.
“Anything can be expected of the Russians,” said another driver, Giga Kenkadze.
Inside the hospital, Kvachatze, the doctor, looked at a 70-year-old woman on another bed. “This is their war,” he said with clenched jaws, referring to the Russians.
In the next room, Irakli Takhov said he was cleaning up the glass from a prior bombing when another bomb crashed down. His legs, chest and arms were ripped open.
Takhov, who said he was about 90, was shaking from the pain.
“I’m very scared,” he said in a hoarse voice, tears starting to roll down his face. “I’m very scared. May God give us peace.”
A nurse who was listening sat down and started to cry. In the hallway outside, there was a commotion. Another ambulance had arrived.
Be respectful of others and their opinions. Inflammatory remarks and inane leftist drivel will be deleted. It ain’t about free speech, remember you’re in a private domain. My website, my prerogative.
If you can't handle using your real email address, don't bother posting a comment.
Might as well go to war with the Russians, if they are pulling shit like this. In every war in their history, the roussie have never treated enemy soldiers or civilians with mercy or respect, they just kill, rape, and destroy whatever they can. I guess they haven’t changed. At least this proves how undisciplined they are. We could beat down the ruskies within a year I bet.
August 12th, 2008 at 3:21 pmwhere is the “peace and justice” and “amnisty international” with their calls for ‘war crimes’?????? oh their chasing some MARINES…
August 12th, 2008 at 3:21 pmI’m watching the Lehrer News Hour on PBS and they’re running the video from the central square in Gori - thank God the inhabitants of the city had enough sense to get the hell out town. Make no mistake - this bombing deliberately targeted civilian noncombatants. All of the victims were civilians and journalists. There are no military facilities in this area, nor were there any Georgian forces in the vicinity of the square during the bombing.
August 12th, 2008 at 3:38 pmFuck Russia. I went to DLI and learned Russian in the 80s. If they start taking old fat vets, I’m here.
August 12th, 2008 at 3:38 pmOh well. Looks like the KGB prick just burned down the ‘Global Village’.
Marxists, Socialists, Theocrats and Dictators are NOT our ‘friends’!
August 12th, 2008 at 3:45 pm…anybody heard anything from the Hollywood elite? “Blood of Oil? Putin lied people died?”
August 12th, 2008 at 3:56 pmPutin, Medvedev, Russia, are now our permanent enemies. It is easy to see they have chosen Iran over Israel. Time to wake up…this man is our enemy. he supports Ahmadinejad, Chavez, and anyone else who is against us. We will have to fight this man sooner or later. WW3 begins, so does the tribulation.
August 12th, 2008 at 4:13 pmBomb Moscow now or forever after look like a coward to the rest of the world. Putin already thinks we have no muscle.
What next George?
sierrahome– putin didn’t lie,,, he just went after it…his intention was to punish the georgians for backing the U.S. in iraq… that is where he was getting cheap oil fm sadaam..
August 12th, 2008 at 4:17 pmKGB dude just handed GWB a very fast, slick ass whippin.
August 12th, 2008 at 4:25 pmStay on the floor dubya, unless ya’ll gotta damn serious plan, pard.
All there is to see in Putin’s eyes is KGB. This man has always been and will always be a sworn enemy of the United States of America and must be dealt with appropriately.
August 12th, 2008 at 5:02 pmTime to start a new alliance. Disolve NATO, move all our troops from the EU ingrates and organize all of Russia’s former vassals under a mutual defense treaty.
August 12th, 2008 at 6:08 pmIf Reagan would have looked into his eyes he would have seen something that needed to be put down like a rabid dog!
August 12th, 2008 at 9:01 pmSteve, your right, dissolve Nato that is your “légion étrangére” used for your unilateral policy, Georgia is paying the hard price.
August 13th, 2008 at 3:56 amHi, guys! and what about Georgian’s agression against their own people - osetins? THOUSANDS killed, brutally. Not military men but children, old women… Come and see yourself what your friend has done. Don’t believe to Saakashvilli propaganda - his is liar and the farther of lies. He leads poor Georgia to disaster and US, to my pity, has played unattractive role in this crisis. And please, my young friends, follow the advice at the bottom of this page - be tolerant to opinions of others and respect other persons. First think then speak - a good rule that would help you in future! Good luck!
August 13th, 2008 at 4:27 amrussians broke the seizefire agreement and started to attack, again… i think they are not going to stop till they capture the capital Tbilisi …and thats a game over for the georgians…fuck
August 13th, 2008 at 4:32 am2 things.
1. Why is anyone shocked that the Russians are bombing cities without reguard for civilians or military targets? There are less then a handful of countries that attempt to use their military might in surgical strikes. Is it because we have been so inandated with the precision of US munitions and the morality of the US military that it is a shock that other major countries don’t fight in the same manor?
2. Starting to look like the hibernating Bear is waking up and going for a NWO.
August 13th, 2008 at 5:38 amYeah?
August 13th, 2008 at 5:49 amPass along a message… tell your dictator to go fuck himself.