The left press wants to make the incursion by Russia into Georgia a revisionist statement about what GWB said 8 years ago about looking into Vladimirs' eyes and seeing his soul, oh well.  The tradgedy of that public global airing probably with a further historic viewback will show that GWB was the thorn that Putin couldn't any longer contain!  Just check the manuevering that  VP Putin has done to if not get approval to a 3rd term as president, now as PM, and second in command to his handpicked 'puppet' successor, President Medvedev, with a USA presidential election that stages the unusual of senator VS senator, the EU a wimp to police their own petty affairs and certainly not willing to offer more than commerce of cars and booze, left the dimunitive poorly dressed guy from the KGB to retaliate against senior citizens in a 'broke away' soveriegn country with not much more than "hope" and aspirational desire of self governance!  The icy veins of the Russians just cannot get past their past...human misery is a constant, anger management hasn't become a UN mandate for incorrugable countries that don't seem to recognize the calendar. For those caught in between there is humanitarian supplies if they get them, it seems the bullies to the north already had a tent city near Beslan, that horror death hole,  to replace what had been 'home' to them..all this to save them from the Georgians! What would benefit the World would be for everyone to recognize that the Russians need  'their territory' be respected as one would  livestock, fenced and closely watched,  but no expansionist behavior permitted without proper legal acquisition  that even a miscreant UN could approve.