[Nikas777]

Georgian claims of intercepting Russian movements was proven false. Georgian claims they invaded to stem a Russian invasion have been proven false. Saakashivili invaded because he thought the Russians would not react because just a few months before Georgia attacked and took back - without blood shed - two small separatist regions and Russia did nothing then either so Saakashivili thought he could move in and dislodge the separatists there during the Olympics. The problem/miscalculation he had was that Russia did not care about those other regions that Georgia took back.

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-42816620091001

Georgia started war with Russia - EU-backed report

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - An independent report blamed Georgia on Wednesday for starting last year's five-day war with Russia, but said Moscow's military response went beyond reasonable limits and violated international law.

[Nikas777]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5114401.ece

From The Sunday Times

November 9, 2008

Georgia fired first shot, say UK monitors

Two former British military officers are expected to give crucial evidence against Georgia when an international inquiry is convened to establish who started the country’s bloody five-day war with Russia in August.

Ryan Grist, a former British Army captain, and Stephen Young, a former RAF wing commander, are said to have concluded that, before the Russian bombardment began, Georgian rockets and artillery were hitting civilian areas in the breakaway region of South Ossetia every 15 or 20 seconds.

Their accounts seem likely to undermine the American-backed claims of President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia that his little country was the innocent victim of Russian aggression and acted solely in self-defence.

During the war both Grist and Young were senior figures in the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The organisation had deployed teams of unarmed monitors to try to reduce tension over South Ossetia, which had split from Georgia in a separatist struggle in the early 1990s with Russia’s support.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Still trying to convince people Georgia attacked Russia, tovarisch? The whole world has seen the mad dog Russia's naked revanchist genocidal neo-Soviet aggression! The enemy is unmasked!

[Bogey78O]

Yes, Georgia shot the Russians on Georgian soil first.