Someone want to tell the US ambassador to the UN that Georgia is in Asia?

[muriel_volestrangler]

As a desperate attempt to draw a distinction between Russia going into Georgia, and the US into Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad said:

Speaking on Sunday during a break in an emergency Security Council meeting on the crisis in Georgia, Mr Khalilzad said there was a danger Russia was over-reaching by intensifying the conflict.

"We want to make sure our Russian colleagues understand that the days of overthrowing leaders by military means in Europe, those days are gone. There is a danger its nostalgia about the past is reflecting itself in this regard as well," Mr Khalilzad tod reporters.

The US accused Russia of seeking "regime change" in Georgia.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/us-accuses-moscow-of-cold-war-nostalgia/2008/08/11/1218306776036.html

Nice try, Mr. Ambassador, but Georgia is south of the Caucasus mountains, in Asia - the same continent as Iraq:

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.

Georgia, country, Asia
...
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ge/Georgia.html

There may be a few parts of Georgia technically in Europe, because the border between Russia and Georgia doesn't follow the watershed exactly - but some of them are in South Ossetia, so trying to point out that particular part of the country is in a different continent from Tbilisi may not be the best move from the Bush regime's point of view.

[Submariner]

1. That's the OLD Europe ....silly

Didn't you hear Rummy the Dummy splain that to us back in 2003?