> Realize they are looking across the table at an idiot, Bush, who
> will be gone in a few months.
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> What the Russians needed to have on the ground when the Georgians came
> in were lots and lots of cameras and persuasive people to describe
> what was happening. That would have given them a huge political asset
> they could have cashed in later - AFTER Bush was gone.
Friend, you must certainly be an American, as you apparently believe that the most important consideration to a state facing the mass murder of its citizens must be what the sitting U.S. president might say about it in his speeches.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."