USA to increase military assistance to Georgia

[Rose Siding]

RBC, 27.09.2004, Tbilisi 19:59:27.The USA will increase its military assistance to Georgia by three times, Georgian Defense Minister Georgy Baramidze told journalists after he returned from the USA where he had met with US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth Jones. Baramidze did not specify the sum noting that an additional 4,000 servicemen would be trained using the US resources. As reported earlier, since 2003 the USA has allocated $64m on training 2,750 Georgian military men.

The USA will also pay salaries to Georgian peacekeepers in Iraq, which is about $600 per month. The Georgian Defense Minister said that the Georgian military contingent in Iraq would be enlarged considerably.

http://www.rbcnews.com/free/20040927195927.shtml

[htuttle]

1. Another dangerous move on the Grand Chessboard

What the hell -- we're made out of money, right?

[Parche]

12. Iraq

While our fire houses over here are closing
They spend our tax dollars in Iraq

I am tired of hearing about Iraq

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Okay, the Cliff Notes. Why Georgia and why now?

Is Georgia a hot zone larger than any other?

[Rose Siding]

4. This, imo

"The Georgian Defense Minister said that the Georgian military contingent in Iraq would be enlarged considerably."

[Wright Patman]

5. It's all about oil

and also controlling pipeline routes.

This is why it requires no tinfoil hat to believe what one Russian general openly stated and Putin also implied--that the CIA and MI6 contracted the massacre at the Beslan school.

One of the bloodiest Chechen leaders is in exile in the UK.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Thanks everyone.

[Malva Zebrina]

3. I'm dumb

why does the US think this necessary? What is the draw in Georgia?

[htuttle]

6. Short answer: Pipeline routes

Longer answer: It's part of the attempt to 'encircle' Russia with US client states and ultimately 'control' any petroleum-producing regions in Central Asia. (cf. PNAC, "Grand Chessboard" by Brzezinski).

The plan ain't workin out too well, though...

[MGKrebs]

7. So that would make them mercenaries, right?

"The USA will also pay salaries to Georgian peacekeepers in Iraq"

[madrchsod]

8. one word-Russia-

seems Georgie and the boys want a forward base in that area. unfortunately the Russians are very nervous about the USA being there since it changes the balance of power in that region. it would be the same if the chinese,russians,or iran would move troops and bases into canada or the mexican border....

[tom_paine]

9. Bush v. Putin is coming just as Hitler v. Stalin was inevitable

Just give Hitler, errr, Bush, some more time to finish his War Against Liberty and the American People.

[bif]

11. What about Alabama?

They always seem to get hosed.

[RubyDuby in GA]

13. As a Georgian,

I would personally like to nominate South Carolina. Ever been there? Psycho conservatives and they have bad roads.

And when I first read this headline, it didn't immediately dawn on me that they meant Russia. I was thinking to myself, WTF?? We don't need any more military here, we've got enough bases..... It's only Monday, I refuse to think until midday Tuesday. :P

[daleo]

14. Bush shouldn't play in Russia's back yard

Historically, this has not been a good idea.

[Charlie Brown]

15. They've killed a lot of people, too.

http://www.db.idpproject.org/Sites/idpSurvey.nsf/wViewCountries/CE5CBEAC88D15C18C12568960051CF2A

http://ww.hrw.org/reports/1995/Georgia2.htm

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