Some Truth on the Georgia Conflict

The Office of Strategic Information has successfully infiltrated the Corporate Media. Now granted, this isn't the Washington Post or NY Times, but we've got to start somewhere--in this case the Bucks County Courier Times Letters to the Editor section (08/24/08).

But don't worry, I've got big plans. My goal is to find my own Judith Miller to covertly propagate the truth as convincingly as she peddled Rumsfeld's lies about Iraq in The Times.

Here's my letter about one-sided coverage on the Georgia conflict:

I have found the coverage of the Georgia-Russia conflict one-sided and misleading. Here are some facts.

On July 31, the U.S. military just completed "Immediate Response 2008", providing combat training to Georgian Troops on Georgian soil. Then, just days later, Georgian troops launched a military offensive in South Ossetia (which should raise some eyebrows). Keep in mind that South Ossetia is a province that voted overwhelmingly for independence in a 2006 referendum, something Georgia refuses to recognize.

As Reuters reported, Russia immediately went to the UN Security Council in an attempt to quell the fighting. Moscow proposed a resolution for both sides to "renounce the use of force," but the Bush Administration nixed it because it didn't want the Georgian government to take any responsibility. As a result of not immediately halting the conflict, Human Rights Watch points out that the Georgian military has shelled civilian targets, caused scores of deaths, and helped create thousands of refugees. But I guess these are facts that the Courier Times doesn't find necessary to critique, maybe because it doesn't fit into the false narrative concocted by the Bush Administration and parroted by most journalists and pundits.