This was posted on Salon.

· The truth about Ossetia and war crimes

· 'Two brigades about 6,500 soldiers (infantry and tanks) with American trainers, and with support of ground missles and artillery started the attack of Tskhinvally. Later in the morning, the air strikes added to this. All of them had an order to “clean out the separatists from the region by the evening of 08/08 Friday latest”. What I think, it was a plan to finish it during the Olympics opening, so that the next morning they could report a “victory over separatists in one day”, and none of the media would be interested in how it was done, as most of the world was watching the Olympics show in Bejing. I think that was arranged and planned with help of Ms.Rice, who visited Georgia just some weeks ago.

August 8, morning: Half of Tskhinvally ruined, most of buildings are under fire. Nobody evacuated. Bodies of men, women and children are on the streets (I have seen the videos, which no Western channels show) Southern part of the city is under Georgian troops control. 500 russian peacekeepers and not shooting as they possibly have no order from Moscow. Georgians are shooting everyone they see, including peacekeepers and children on the streets. I tried calling my cousin there, but she declined my calls several times, later sent a text: “We can’t speak in the basements, as they throw grenades into the houses and basements once they hear a phone call or talk”. Later, when she came to Vladikavlaz,Russia, she described awful and frightening scenes of Georgian shooting children and women, setting them on fire, raping little girls after killing their mothers etc. It was a true nightmare!They were also attacked on the way to the Russian border. No wounded could be evacuated that day. I can’t believe that this can happen in the country of Democracy and Freedom which Georgia reports to be…'

Slate if you're not going to tell the truth or something approaching the truth about all this why don't you just stick with John Edwards stories or stories about bigfoot? America under the neo cons is simply destroying the last vestiges of its credibility but the western media is only too happy to play along. Hacks. What's the plan here? World War III or just a kick along for John McInsane's election campaign?