Georgia Says Bombing Continues After Russian Order

I was just reading this story at Yahoo News, by CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA and MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, Associated Press Writers, and there is some hope the Russian attacks on Georgian troops may be coming to a halt soon. Just a quick thought about this situation. Hasn't it been pitiful watching the toothless response of the United Nations, as they went hat in hand begging Russia to stop, with nothing to back it up but more "emergency" meetings. The United Nations was built with such great promise, but the sad reality is that is cannot do anything when the chips are down. I know that it is as much the United States fault as any other nation, because we only use the U.N. when it is convenient for our purposes, so perhaps our next President will resolve to "fix" this problem, by either working through the U.N. as it was intended for, or ending our involvement with it completely.
I would enjoy reading your thoughts on the United Nations as well if you have an opinion as to its' effectiveness or lack thereof. Thanks!

Anyway, the story reads:
Russia ordered a halt to military action in Georgia on Tuesday, after five days of air and land attacks that sent Georgia's army into headlong retreat and left towns, military bases and homes in the U.S. ally smoldering. Georgia insisted that Russian forces were still bombing and shelling.

Despite the pledge by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Russia launched an offensive Tuesday in the only part of Abkhazia still under Georgian control. An Associated Press reporter saw 135 Russian military vehicles driving through Georgia en route to Abkhazia's Kodori Gorge — and Georgian officials said their troops in the gorge were under Russian attack.

Abkhazian officials claimed their forces — not the Russians — were carrying out artillery attacks in the Kodori Gorge. Fleeing Georgians said the entire population of the gorge, some 3,000 people, had abandoned their homes — some so quickly they didn't even grab food or water. "It feels like an annexed country," said Lasha Margiana, the local administrator in one of the villages in Kodori
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And just hours before Medvedev's order, Georgian officials said Russian jets targeted government offices and an outdoor market in the key city of Gori, killing six. Russia has accused Georgia of killing more than 2,000 people, mostly civilians, in the separatist province of South Ossetia. The claim couldn't be independently confirmed, but witnesses who fled the area over the weekend said hundreds had died. Many Georgians also have been killed in the fighting. The overall death toll was expected to rise because large areas of Georgia were still too dangerous for journalists to enter and see the true scope of the damage.

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