Dan, up yours.
Jbean, is WSJ enough not-russian for ya?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121841192991628317.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

“Mr. Saakashvili said he didn’t regret his actions. He dismissed Russian accusations of genocide and war crimes as propaganda and insisted that a general perception that he had provoked Russia by launching an all-out attack on South Ossetia’s capital, Tskhinvali, was untrue.

Once a heavy assault on Georgian positions began Thursday, the news that 150 Russian tanks were approaching the region had forced him to act. “Our military said the only option we had was to use long-range artillery and move up to destroy the bridge” above Tskhinvali, Mr. Saakashvili said.”