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regime doing the bidding of U.S. imperialism. The Tbilisi-based=20
Peace Committee of Georgia issued a declaration that opposed the=20
Georgian government=E2=80=99s actions. The unofficial English=20
translation reads in part:

"The bombings killed Ossetian civilians, our brothers and sisters,=20
children, women and elderly people. ... There also died hundreds of=20
civilians of Georgian nationality, both in the conflict zone as=20
well as on the entire territory of Georgia. ... The Georgian Peace=20
Committee ... is going to struggle so that the organizers of this=20
monstrous genocide have a severe and legitimate punishment." (MRZine, Aug. =
12)

Cuban leader Fidel Castro clarified the relationship between the=20
Georgian and U.S. governments: "[Bush] committed to support=20
President Saakashvili for Georgia=E2=80=99s admission to NATO; that is=20
like plunging a sharpened dagger deep into Russia=E2=80=99s heart. =E2=80=
=A6 Saakashvili,=20
on his own, would never have jumped to the adventure of sending the=20
Georgian army into South Ossetia. ... A nuclear war is not=20
something to fool around with; and providing cannon fodder to the=20
market cannot be rewarded." (Prensa Latina, Aug. 12)

The 1992 Defense Policy Guidance paper, authored by Paul Wolfowitz=20
and Lewis Libby, explicitly explained that the dominant consideration=20
for U.S. strategy in the region was to prevent the reemergence of a=20
new rival. The outlined policy explicitly includes "pre-emptive war"=20
and the use of nuclear weapons.

This policy objective should be recounted to those who may be taken=20
in by the feigned concern of U.S. imperialism, its representatives=20
and media for the Ossetian, Abkhazian, Georgian and Russian peoples.=20
What is needed during this crisis is an anti-imperialist perspective=20
that demands "U.S. imperialism out of the Caucasus"=20
and "No NATO intervention!"
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