@Doug:
So, I just don’t get it. They admint premeditation by them thar Russikies, but they don’t point out the obvious fact that the artillery assault on Tskhinvali was a necessary military response to the already obvious Russkie mobilization? How were the Georgians supposed to destroy that bridge? Who is going to blame the Georgians for destroying that bridge when every minute of delay they could force upon the Russkies translated to hundreds if not hundrededs of thousands of lives saved?

By delaying Les Russes at Tskhinvali, Georgia saved itself. Georgia gave the world a gift; the gift they gave was the gift of time to retreat intact. Then Pres. Bush could say, “Vladimir, Baby, loooook deeee-ep into MY eyes (a**h***), my darlink. Your dumb-s**t troops are stuck facing Georgian regulars dug in deeeeee-ep at the mountain pass of Mstkheta, and they ALREADY have all sorts of anti-air, anti-armour ordinance, …or haven’t you been paying attention, darlink?”

So goes the revived Sovietskii Soyuuz. Burn in Hell, a**holes! it is now Bondage and Submissions Payback time. Pity to poor people of Russia. Pity the filthy gangster that rule them, for that matter. “God does not delight in the death of the wicked”, so why should we?