Who knew there was a COUNTRY called Georgia??? (Would this be what the Bush admin. calls "desensitizing?")

This JUST POSTED 4 minutes ago...(3:44 AM West Coast time) on YAHOO USA.

*******WHY would Yahoo US post this on their front page? How many of you have heard of the country "Georgia"???*******

Georgian army moves to retake South Ossetia

By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, Associated Press Writer
4 minutes ago

TBILISI, Georgia - Georgian troops launched a major military offensive Friday to regain control over the breakaway province of South Ossetia and the president accused Russia, which has close ties to the separatists, of bombing Georgian territory. http://news.yahoo.com/s/a...

-Here is the Wik version:

Georgia [ˈdʒɔrdʒə] (help·info) or Sakartvelo (Georgian: საქართველო), formerly the Republic of Georgia, is a transcontinental country partially in Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia in the Caucasus region. It is bordered to the north by the Russian Federation, to the east by Azerbaijan, to the west across the Black Sea by Ukraine, to the south by Armenia and to the southwest by Turkey.[2] The territory of Georgia covers 69,700 km² and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Georgia’s population is 4.4 million in the territories controlled by the central
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(country)