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As new information becomes available, estimation of recent events in the Caucasus, namely Saakashvili’s military adventure in South Ossetia, in our ruling circles is changing. For example, during Tuesday’s hearings in the US Congress Congresswoman from Texas, Sheila Jackson Lee made a dead set at the Bush administration’s active support of aggressive Saakashvili’s regime in Georgia. She called the latest actions of White House as anti-Russian ones that lead to damaging our relations with Russia and cannot but interfere with US interests.
Moreover, based on data of our intelligence services, a Republican Congressman, Deputy Chairman of Congress’ Subcommittee on International Organizations, Dana Rohrabacher has had to acknowledge that the armed conflict in South Ossetia was initiated by Georgian leadership, namely by M. Saakashvili. He stressed that any attempts to lay the blame for this war upon Ossetians or Russians remind her the incident in the Gulf of Tonkin, which was used by the then US administration as a pretext for launching Vietnam’s war, but in reality it was turned out to be a planned provocation. And I would find difficulty to quarrel with this statement.
In this context I cannot but agree with the opinion of a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives, Chairman of the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Howard Berman, who called Saakashvili’s actions “brutal and terrible mistake, for which Georgia, Ossetia and Russia has forfeited thousands of lives of innocent people. And if the USA is really a democratic country, the White House should at last recognize publicly that Georgians have begun this war and Russians put the end to it. And we’ll take this as read.