Comments on: It Ain’t Exactly an Idyllic Jeffersonian Oasis http://spinline.net/blog/2008/10/06/it-aint-exactly-an-idyllic-jeffersonian-oasis-2/ comment, claptrap & crankery Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:02:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: SenorHollywood http://spinline.net/blog/2008/10/06/it-aint-exactly-an-idyllic-jeffersonian-oasis-2/comment-page-1/#comment-137 SenorHollywood Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:07:18 +0000 http://spinline.net/blog/?p=308#comment-137 This piece gives a good perspective on the human cost to all this. OPINION I survived the Georgian war. Here's what I saw. Lira Tskhovrebova 872 words 8 October 2008 The Christian Science Monitor ALL 9 English © 2008 Christian Science Monitor. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All Rights Reserved. In a speech before the United Nations last month, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili implored world leaders to set up an international investigation to find out the truth about the war in South Ossetia. I couldn't agree more. But I think the results of an honest investigation would reveal a very different "truth" than what President Saakashvili claims. I know this because I was in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, on Aug. 7 when Georgian troops marched into the city and killed my friends and neighbors. I huddled with my family in terror More at http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1008/p09s02-coop.html This piece gives a good perspective on the human cost to all this.

OPINION
I survived the Georgian war. Here’s what I saw.
Lira Tskhovrebova
872 words
8 October 2008
The Christian Science Monitor
ALL
9
English
© 2008 Christian Science Monitor. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All Rights Reserved.

In a speech before the United Nations last month, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili implored world leaders to set up an international investigation to find out the truth about the war in South Ossetia.

I couldn’t agree more. But I think the results of an honest investigation would reveal a very different “truth” than what President Saakashvili claims.

I know this because I was in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, on Aug. 7 when Georgian troops marched into the city and killed my friends and neighbors. I huddled with my family in terror

More at http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1008/p09s02-coop.html

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