Saakashvili: Georgia should Confront ‘Cruel Enemy’ with Knowledge

Georgia should be “equipped with knowledge” in order to prevail over “cruel enemy” and “occupant country,” President Saakashvili said on September 14.

“The President of our huge neighbor and of the occupant country, Russia, dedicated half of his hour-long congratulating speech about new school year [on September 1] speaking how bad Georgia is,” he said.

Saakashvili was speaking at an opening of a new school in the village of Tserovani, the largest settlement of internally displaced persons from South Ossetia.

“I came here to speak how good we are and how good our country is,” he said. “We are good and strong people because many other people, which experienced this tragedy [reference to the August war] would not have got back on their feet.”

“Our land is still occupied, but although we have not yet won, they have already lost this struggle. To eventually win this struggle we need knowledge; we wont’ be able to prevail over them neither with weapons nor with number of people and nor with cruelty, because we are opposite to that; and in order to get rid of this cruel enemy we need to be equipped with knowledge.”

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