{"id":1429,"date":"2008-08-27T14:54:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T19:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2008-08-27T15:14:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T20:14:53","slug":"the-ruskies-started-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1429","title":{"rendered":"The Ruskie&#8217;s started it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1379\">I was wrong.<\/a>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeltotten.com\/archives\/2008\/08\/the-truth-about-1.php\">The Russians started it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaeltotten.com\/images\/Putin%20Sidewalk%20Georgia%20Flag%20Tbilisi.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Absolutely. We&#8217;ve been trying to tell the world about this for months. If you go back and look at the archives you&#8217;ll see plenty of calls from the Georgian government saying they&#8217;re really worried. Even some Russian commentators agree that this is exactly what happened. Don&#8217;t forget, they sent in a lot of irregulars, Chechens, Cossacks, Ossetians, Ingush \u00e2\u20ac\u201c basically thugs. Not normal Chechens or Ingush \u00e2\u20ac\u201c thugs. Thugs out for a holiday. Many Western camera crews were robbed at gunpoint ten meters from Russian tanks while Russian commanders just stood there smoking their cigarettes while the irregulars&#8230;that happened to a Turkish TV crew. They&#8217;re lucky to still be alive. Some of the Georgians were picked up by the irregulars. If they happened to be female, they got raped. If they happened to be male, they got shot immediately, sometimes tortured. Injured people we have in hospitals who managed to get out have had arms chopped off, eyes gouged out, and their tongues ripped out.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was wrong. The Russians started it. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Absolutely. We&#8217;ve been trying to tell the world about this for months. If you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}