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Putin is shrewd and ruthless and is counting on us being afraid to help those who have helped us.

Bush agree to use US Air Force jets to fly the Georgian Iraq based troops back to Georgia and upped the ante some. I hope we allow those troops to disembark with a whole lot of goodies...including a lot of Javelin anti-tank missiles.

I also hope those aircraft go in with significant US fighter escort.

We need to help the Gergians bloody the Russian nose badly, as best we can and hopefull thwart a take over of the whole of Georgia.

I do not expect however to see direct US involvement unless the Russians foolishly tried to shoot down US aircraft or attack and kill our trainers over there. In any case the logistics of our inserting and maintiaing a major force there are huge...and Putin knows it.

The Ukraine announcing today that they would not allow Russain war ships bnack to their home port of Sevatapol (which is Ukraine territoty) is also a good move., We need to see a lot more of that directed at Russia.

with thisas a back drop, hopefully most Americans will weigh very heavily and carefully who they choose to put at the helm of this nation and face such individuals as Putin.

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"Bush agree to use US Air Force jets to fly the Georgian Iraq based troops back to Georgia and upped the ante some."

You have a source for that? I've seen reports that the Georgian troops will use US "chartered" aircraft, like the ones many of our own troops use for transport to and from the ME.

I also hope those aircraft go in with significant US fighter escort.

This could be the best response we could do in this situation. Lots and lots of fighter aircraft as an escort and take the long way to get to the Georgian base . . . and the US aircraft don't leave and stay on ready. Some risk yes, but if Russia touches our planes, they are the provocateur! Don't you know every Georgian fighter returning from Iraq would be game for this.

The Russians have a number of ships laid up in Sevastopol in various states of repair (or disrepair). The Ukrainians need to take control of those vessels and either absorb them into their navy or hand them over to the Georgians to replace the Georgian warships sunk in this war.