Georgia on my mind…

The news reports you’ve been seeing/reading/hearing about the Russian incursion into Georgia may have it all wrong.  What if Georgia is the aggressor, not Russia? If this was true, would reporting the opposite and setting up the U.S. for some type of saber rattling buoy the candidacy of one presidential candidate who is more hawkish and has more experience — Sen. John McCain?
     Hear me out on this…
     Did you see President Bush greet old Putey-Poot at the Olympics as if they were college buddies, even though the action in Georgia was under way? Wouldn’t President Bush have known about it at the time? And if he’s currently mad, why didn’t he give Putin a cold shoulder or a kick in the kneecap back there in Beijing? The friendliness didn’t make any sense…
     A regular reader of 5UTR raised these questions to me. The U.S. media is simply not reporting the truth, the reader says. The reader notes the areas Russia has entered were already split from Georgia. In a report today, the Guardian reports, “Putin scoffed at western ‘cynicism’, drew parallels between Saakashvili and Saddam Hussein and accused the Georgians of perpetrating atrocities that should be prosecuted as war crimes. ‘They had to hang Saddam Hussein for destroying several Shia villages,’ he said. ‘But the current Georgian rulers who in one hour simply wiped 10 Ossetian villages from the face of the earth, the Georgian rulers which used tanks to run over children and the elderly, who threw civilians into cellars and burnt them – they are players that have to be protected.’”
     In today’s Christian Science Monitor, you find clarity on this issue: “‘This conflict has very deep and complicated roots,’ says analyst Alexei Malashenko at the Carnegie Center in Moscow. ‘It was Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili who started it, hoping to redraw the whole situation with one sweeping action. But if it goes on for much longer, it is likely that there will be no winners, and Russia will suffer very badly, too.’
     “The war, which began with a lightning Georgian offensive Friday aimed at ending secessionist South Ossetia’s 16-year-old de facto independence, prompted a Russian military intervention which, by Monday, had put Russian forces in full control of the region.”
     Beware of lame ducks bearing “gifts”…