Gorbachev: Georgia started conflict in S. Ossetia [View All]

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Source: CNN


(CNN) -- Georgian leaders may be blaming Russia for the conflict raging in South Ossetia, but former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said Thursday "there is no doubt" that Georgia provoked the clash.

Mikhail Gorbachev told CNN's Larry King that Russia called extra troops into Georgia to stem violence.

Gorbachev told CNN's Larry King that Russia moved additional forces into South Ossetia in response to "devastation" in the South Ossetia city of Tskhinvali.

"This was the use of sophisticated weapons against a small town, against a sleeping people. This was a barbaric assault," said Gorbachev, the last president of the former Soviet Union.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/14/gorbachev/index.html

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Neocons obviously staged this assault so that Russia would respond as they did. Bush, and McCain particularly, are playing right into this.