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8.14.08 @ 12:01AM

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3) "Heavy destruction in the Georgian city of Gori." I think that all reports from Gori (say, BBC) quote at most three bombs that went astray and hit the buildings surrounding the military base there (the correspondent even looked down at the base from the balcony of the bombed house).

4) "The ultimate question is whether the Russians will be satisfied with the return of South Ossetia and all of Abkhazia in northwest Georgia to Russian sovereignty." Answer is no: Russia had already lost perhaps more than 100 men in this fight and will go a lot further now to prevent Mr. Saakashvili from starting another war next summer. It would be wise for our government to use its power to hint to the Georgian president about benefits of early retirement and tenure in Columbia University. After all, his idea of taking on Russia with a 30-thousand-strong army disqualifies him as a commander-in-chief and would be laughable, if not for hundreds of people who already died and will die proving him wrong.
-- Dmitri "Dima" Varsanofiev

I'LL DRINK TO THAT
Re: Mike Roush's letter (under "Roush Delivery") in Reader Mail's Everywhere, Angst:

"I admit as a stockholder and a taxpayer, it can be difficult to calculate one's own best interests. Since I won no points with Mr. Sarver on the government efficiency front, can we, together, at least raise a glass to profits?"

Mike Roush is a capitalist? Our Mike? A grubby greedy, poor-of-the-world-oppressing stock holder of an evil American company? Concerned with the most evil institution in the known world, capitalism? Concerned with, I hesitate to even type the word for fear of indictment by the World Court, "profits?"

Who'ed thunk it!!!

Now I do need that glass! Leave the bottle.
-- Craig Sarver
Seattle, Washington

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