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08-11-2008, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by dannolars

I think we are already involved in a way, we airlifted Georgian troops out of Iraq to take them back home. I wonder if this has anything to do with Russian designs on the oil pipeline from Baku through Georgia...

No it has to do with the fact that Georgia has been very supportive of the US and have over 2,000 soldiers in Iraq which considering the fact they have an army of some 40,000 is quite amazing and shows how supportive they’ve been of our efforts in Iraq AND Afghanistan.

The Russians have an army of hundreds of thousands not to mention the Spetsnaz and other special ops forces which are the ones that’ll be primarily sent to Georgia. For Georgians every soldier really does count - they aren't naïve; they know we won't help them militarily.

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