Well, A Fat Lot of Good THAT Did

By Baxter

We cats keep flashing on Laura Hope Crews' immortal delivery of an Aunt Pittypat line from Gone With The Wind: "Yankees in Georgia! How did they ever get here?"

Except of course the headlines today are about Russians in Georgia. And not our Georgia — rather, it's the former Soviet state that's now being overrun by what used to be called The Red Army.

We think that probably good old Vlad Putin — the man whose soul George W. Bush, a very long time ago, alleged he could look into — overstepped a bit here.

But we find it equally laughable that that same George W. Bush thinks he has any credibility when he tries to criticize Russia's assault against Georgia as "disproportionate," and one that's "substantially damaged Russia’s standing in the world."

Okay — so the guy who invaded Iraq on false pretenses and whose Administration has sanctioned and practiced torture is able to whack Vlad around, exactly how?

We cats wait for the answer. In the meantime, we switch our tails in disgust at the Russian-Georgian conflict. And we're just glad that our owners' good friends, who visited Tbilisi recently, are safe and sound at home.