If US officials believed that the Russians had anything but limited objectives in Georgia, they would not have sent Condi Rice to Tblisi.

I am less concerned of Russian efforts to get to the bottom of the midnight – out of satellite reach – commencement of military action, than I am of the pathology of those who want factual abridgement of a war crime’ issue. In 1956 and 1968, Hungarian and Czekoslovack leaders wanted more that to salvage a Neo-Con flop. Coverups get uncovered.