The Pentagon isn't looking to get mixed up in the Russia-Georgia conflict.  

 

Unlike the warmongering idiot, Sid McSame, who is so daft that he forgets that the US military is stretched to the breaking point, the Pentagon realizes it would be the height of insanity to be pulled into Georgia's delusionally based conflict.

 

As McClatchy Newspapers reports: "Secretary of Defense Robert Gates took U.S. military action off the table to help the embattled Georgian army against Russian troops that remain the country, despite a purported ceasefire.

In his first public comments since the conflict began Aug. 7, Gates made it clear that the U.S. would not answer pleas from Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili that the U.S. military protect his country's ports and airports.

" 'I don't see any prospect for the use of military force by the United States in this situation. Is that clear enough?' Gates told reporters in a briefing Thursday morning.

"The comments came as officials in Russia made it clear that they favor redrawing Georgia's borders."

Sid and Dubya (and the mainstream media) deliberately ignore the fact that Georgia attacked South Ossetia first when it thought everyone was busy elsewhere, like at the Olympics.  Also Georgian President Saakashvili might have invaded South Ossetia to provoke Russian retaliation thinking Bush would automatically enter the fray on Georgia's side so it would more quickly become a NATO member.

But given Dubya and McSame's saber rattlling, promotion and embrace of Georgia, and stupidly poking the Russian bear, one can understand how Saakashvili could have mistakenly jumped to that conclusion.

Scary thought: if J. Sid "let's have a repeat of the Cold War" McSame were the president the US would be illegally waging continuous global war.