More from the article previously referenced.
“There is an A.F.P. story saying that Condi Rice will announce on Thursday certain measures,” Saakashvili said to Kunin. Saakashvili has staked his country’s security on its close relationship with the United States, and he had been hoping that the Bush Administration would take action against Russia for sending its forces into Georgia.
“Yeah,” Kunin said. “I don’t know what they are going to say, though.”
“They are going to bomb! From Alaska!” Saakashvili said, smiling. (Governor Sarah Palin had been chosen as John McCain’s running mate two weeks earlier.) “Or they are going to shoot their mooses!”
Who the fuck smiles when talking about his own country getting bombed?
Despite the Russian bullying of Georgia, most foreign observers believe that Saakashvili has been needlessly provocative. On August 7th, Saakashvili ordered a strike on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, after a week of escalating clashes between Georgian police and South Ossetian separatist forces, who have largely controlled the region since the fall of the Soviet Union. (South Ossetia, in the north-central part of the country, bordering Russia, has been a part of Georgia for centuries, but the Ossetians are ethnically distinct and have their own language.) Saakashvili maintains that the situation had become untenable, saying that he had received intelligence that a Russian invasion had begun, or was about to. He claims that he had no choice but to attack Tskhinvali—that it was either fight or surrender. The Russians deride this version of events, saying that Georgia acted as the aggressor, threatening the lives of Russian citizens in Tskhinvali and of Russian peacekeepers stationed there. In any event, the Russians reacted quickly and decisively, launching air attacks and sending columns of tanks into Georgia. The tanks rolled to a stop within twenty miles of Tbilisi.
(bolding mine) Now just who do you suppose fed Saakashvili that intelligence?
