The question is: why would Georgia's president Saakashvili invade a sworn enemy, which has a Russian peace keeping force stationed there to defend Ossetia's autonomy? It would appear to be a suicide mission.

Likely reasons: Either Saakashvili was totally deluded, and/or he gambled that Russia would not stand behind their word to the Ossetians, and/or he believed that the U.S. would support him and Georgia in a war against S. Ossetia and possibly Russia.

These are the words of Sharon Tennison, friend of a good friend of mine.

I'm not saying that Georgia attacking South Ossetia (and thus, effectively, attacking Russia, since Russia had peacekeepers in South Ossetia) was predictable. That was a complete surprise to me, and - apparently - to a lot of people.

But it WAS predictable that Russia would drive the Georgians back out of South Ossetia and it was REALLY predictable that our Good King George would handle the situation with his usual tact and sensibility:

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At Berlin, recently, Barak Obama (Bilderberg 2008) sang a beautiful song to the US/EU/Nato (= New World Order) alliance. At the same time, he (somewhat gently) warned that Russia would be the key enemy of this New World Order alliance (he didn't use the words "new world order"; but his buddy, Senator Hagel (Bilderberg, several times) did).

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Bush speaking in (eurasian) Georgia: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4534267.stm "I am proud to stand beside a president (of Georgia) who has shown such spirit, determination and leadership in the cause of freedom."