Russia Invades Georgia

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As predicted, of course that Russia was mad at USA helping transport Georgian troops home from Iraq:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1996622

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin slammed the West, saying it had mistaken the real aggressors for the victims in a conflict with Georgia over the separatist region of South Ossetia.
   
Putin, shown speaking on state television, singled out the United States, saying Washington was helping to bring Georgian troops home from Iraq.
   
In an emotional speech to senior government officials, Putin said some US politicians still had a Cold War mentality.
   
"It is a shame that some of our partners are not helping us but, essentially, are hindering us," Putin said.

"I mean ... the transfer by the United States of a Georgian contingent in Iraq with military transport planes practically to the conflict zone."
   
"The very scale of this cynicism is astonishing - the attempt to turn white into black, black into white and to adeptly portray victims of aggression as aggressors and place the responsibility for the consequences of the aggression on the victims."
   
Putin, a former president, also said Russia would take its peacekeeping mission in South Ossetia to a logical conclusion.
   
"Russia, of course, will take its peacekeeping mission to a logical conclusion. We will strive for working relations with all participants of this conflict, and that, of course, includes the Georgian side," Putin said.