This may come as a complete surprise to some people, but Georgia brought this on themselves. The logical fallacy of saying claiming that Georgia's unprovoked attack on South Ossetia, which brought about the attack by Russia, is somehow the fault of the Russians is amazing.

Huh? Isn't the official story the Russians invaded Georgia without provocation and are bombing Georgia because they are "commies"? Interesting. Surprise, Surprise! The Georgians invade South Ossetia with the intention of putting down a rebellion--being the aggressor--and the Russians, on behalf of the ethnic Russians in South Ossetia, are attacking Georgia to get them to stop attacking. As of this writing, Russia has withdrawn its tanks and troops into South Ossetia and her warplanes continue to bomb targets in Georgia until what's left of Georgia's troops make it back into Georgia.

Also, something that is not made generally known to the public is that the Georgian troops attacking South Ossetia have American and Israeli military advisors. Couple that with the fact that the United States military just concluded war games with Georgian forces in "Immediate Response 2008" and it makes you wonder what exactly the troops were training to do.

Thirdly, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvilli was put into his office by the CIA back in 2003 during the Rose Revolution. Saakashvilli complained about the Russian KGB being in Georgia; perhaps they were there to keep tabs on the CIA and Mossad?

Fourth and finally, Georgia is being courted for membership in NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Has anyone bothered to check a map lately? How close is Georgia to the North Atlantic Ocean?

While the Western world is falling over themselves to condemn what is being called naked Russian aggression, the best Georgian President Saakashvilli can come up with to explain his situation is that Russian response is "disproportionate" and that Georgia is a European country and Russia is attacking a member of the EU. Has he bothered to check a map lately? Georgia is about as European as India.

In a way, I feel for Saakashvilli and the Georgian people because they have been duped by the U.S. into believing that they could thumb their noses at the Russian Bear without fear of retaliation. The Georgians were used to test Russian resolve in the lead up to a likely U.S. attack on Iran sometime this year.

If the reader will recall, Russian President Vladimir Putin is on the record as saying that any attack on Iran will be considered to be an attack on Russia. Gee, Bubba Dubya, I guess he isn't messing around.