if the majority of the people in South Ossetia and Abkhazia want to be independent of Georgia, then what business is it of the British Government to try and stop them?

there may be a worldwide economic slowdown, but it doesn't seem to have stopped the richer countries wasting resources fighting foreign wars

Russia's actions in Georgia are those of a local bully.

The actions of the United States in Iraq are those of a global bully.

"It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy... The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States."

- Boutros Boutros-Ghali (former Secretary General of the UN) (1922-)

how long will it be before the apologists for war criminals Bush and Blair try and convince us that the illegal invasion of Iraq was carbon neutral?