Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Georgia’s invasion of South Ossetia was his country’s equivalent of September 11. He also likens Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to a “pooch” and describes him as an “unpredictable, pathological and mentally unstable drug abuser.” This guy’s all class.
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Truth—the whole truth—should be the foundation of justice
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