Were you there? How do you know when and where the tanks started rolling? Remember, all they had to do was cross the frontier (between South and North Ossetia) for Saakashvili’s comment to be accurate.
Through the tunnel actually. Nobody up till now disputes the chronology of Russian armor movements. Even the early Georgian press releases. And I am sure that due to the miracles of satellite imagery, everyone involved knows exactly when it occurred.
But that wasn’t what I posted about. I commented on the defensive nature of shelling someone’s capitol city.