CNN:
"In an exclusive interview with CNN's Matthew Chance in the Black Sea city of Sochi on Thursday, (Russian Prime Minister/Czar Vladimir) Putin said the U.S. had encouraged Georgia to attack the autonomous region of South Ossetia . . .
Putin said his defense officials had told him it was done to benefit a presidential candidate. (I wonder who?)
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino blasted Putin's statements, saying they were 'patently false.'
'To suggest that the United States orchestrated this on behalf of a political candidate just sounds not rational,' she said.
U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood concurred and labeled Putin's statements 'ludicrous.'"
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/08/28/russia.georgia.cold.war/index.htmlI don't know . . . You do the math.