Rivals say they plan to remove Georgian President (original removed: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2008/0815/1218747921949.html)
Irishtimes.com, 15th August 2008

• Mikheil Saakashvili … “widely perceived in the country as having started the war with Russia.”
• Kakha Kukava member of the opposition Conservative party of Georgia:… “Saakashvili was personally responsible for the military operation, and for starting a war we could not win.”
• Mr Saakashvili …”has steadily centralised his authority since he was brought to power by popular protests in the 2004 Rose Revolution and engineered a brutal crackdown on dissent last November.”
• “many Georgians see the president’s decision to send troops into South Ossetia as the primary cause of the war.”
• “”What he did by restoring constitutional order, in his words, was only to provoke Russia,” said Mr Gachechiladze.”

August 15th, 2008