Combine Ekyprogressive's post HERE -- and the audio by Rachel Maddow was really enlightening -- with Whereabouts' extended post HERE.



However, I don't think now that Blackwater or Americans were there, although residents are saying that some soldiers had American insignias. Georgia's army has been built and supplied by the U.S. right down to their uniforms. Those men could be Georgians.. but their uniforms were described as black, and it makes sense that we would already have some people in place, like CIA crawling around. So who knows?

And yesterday I was wondering why we -- or rather, Bush -- is so pro-Georgia, now I know. I should have just looked at a world map. It's right in the middle of the countries that Ted Rall has been screaming about for some time, like near Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. I believe it is Kyrgyzstan that has massive oil reserves, possibly third largest after Saudi Arabia and Iraq. A pipeline from this region goes right through Georgia towards the sea. Russia tried to get the pipeline to go northward towards Russia, but failed; now it is in their interest to cut Georgia in half, by gathering in Ossetia and going southward.

And Ossetia, at least, may want that, but when world powers have an interest, it's apparently not for them to decide their own future.



CNBC told a lot about this: VIDEO

Another fight about oil and getting to it.