Robert Scheer @ Truthdig: Georgia War a Neocon Election Ploy?

It is reminding me of the stories that were swirling around the MSM the first time the U.S. invaded Iraq in the early '90s. "Poor Kuwait" was being attacked by those evil Iraqis who were tossing the babies out of hospital incubators, and the U.S. must go in and "save" them.

Later, we heard from alternative sources that Kuwaitis had actually been slant-drilling their oil wells into Iraqi territory, which provoked the Iraqis to attack them, and also that U.S. senior officials had given Iraq the impression that it wouldn't mind if they attacked Kuwait.

Now the MSM is going on about big bad Russia, Shrub is puffing and posturing, and we have U.S. troops being sent to Georgia. Cui bono?

(A friend told me the other night that AP was showing a map of Georgia in the early coverage of this story... yep, the Russians were almost to Savannah)