Would it be called blackmail, or whitemail?

GWB sends Condi Rice to Tblisi, along with some other European ministers (the coalition of the willing, version 2.0?), “humanitarian” aid via C-17′s and the US Navy. And, for the kick under the table, who knows what kind of intelligence regarding Russian behavior the US Gov. has been sitting on since the start of OIF? Iraq, under Saddam, was most definently a client state of the USSR, then Russia. They have had a long and deep involvement with Iraq, and there were rumors of them supplying “insurgents” with high-powered AT weapons AFTER OIF started. An who knows how much the US knows about how much the Russians have helped the Iranians.

Putin’s been playing with fire for years, and has been indulged for the “larger” reasons of “world peace”. Perhaps this latest adventure has created a tipping point, as it were, with our own intentions of keeping things cordial, perhaps now going out the window.