WHAT BARACK OBAMA SHOULD SAY ABOUT CONFLICT IN SOUTH OSSETIA

Instead of repeating the Bush line that Russia is to blame for the recent outbreak of fighting between Russia and Georgia, I want to see Barack condemn Georgian president Saakhasvili for starting this whole mess by ordering Georgian tanks and war planes to shell and bomb civilians in South Ossetia.
Saakhasvili's initiation of this bloody conflict rates him on a par with Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. Saakhasvili turns out to be another war criminal.
The people of South Ossetia don't want to belong to Georgia which insists on its "sovereignty" over them. Instead of Georgia killing them to force them to belong, how about a referendum?
This is what Barack should say. Not that Russia is to blame, or that Georgia is pursuing "democracy," so the Georgians must be right.
Forget about U.S. "interests" in the area. Do what is right for the people in South Ossetia being killed and bombed by the Georgians. Protect them from these crazy Georgian nationalists. If they want to secede and they vote and win, let them.

U.S. INCINERATES HIROSHIMA AUGUST 6, 1945

Today, August 6th, is the 63rd anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima that killed over 100,000 people.

I find the argument of those American militarists ludicrous and illogical who argue that dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified becaause it brought the war to an early close and, by doing so, saved thousands of lives of U.S. soldiers.

Has anyone ever told these guys that the laws of war absolutely prevent a combatant from targeting civilians? The people whom the American nuclear devices incinerated were ordinary civilians, albeit Japanese, residents of the city of Hiroshima, men, women, children. There was no justification for the U.S. to drop a nuclear bomb on them . The only reason why Harry S. Truman was not indicted as an out-and-out war criminal for ordering the bombing and charged with crimes against humanity was that the U.S. was victorious.

Consider the Serbians Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadcic. They have been indicted for crimes against humanity on the principal charge of killing and murdering over 3,000 men and boys at Srebenica.

Contrast Truman to these thugs. They killed a few thousand by shooting. Truman killed over 100,000 by incinerating, yet he got away free and clear.

The U.S. has a lot to answer for with regard to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, not to mention Dresden and Hamburg. This is a stain that will not easily disappear.