@wretchard

It seems that Bush’s speech was long after Russia has already broken cease-fire. The fact of sending humanitarian aid wasn’t provocative. The wording of the statement was, which implied more of a military role to the aid. Hence, the aid might have been sent (or planned and ready) while Russia was assumed to be observing cease fire, and it was only after it violated it, that Bush described it in military terms. Contigency plans for military involvement and force projection were likely made long before the cease-fire agreement.