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I have a sense that there are a bunch of things we should be talking about, including developments in the Anthrax case.

But here just a quickie on Georgia. I happened across a chilling article — pasted in below — from a Russian news service. The article is an exhortation for the Russian army to go all the way into Georgia. Among many interesting and disturbing things, it calls for a strategic bombing campaign against Georgia:

“Obviously, entrenching Russia’s military presence in South Ossetia cannot be the goal of this war. A source from the SKVO told us: “We have to go all the way - destroy the runways at all airfields, including civilian airports - and all key railway nodes. Cut off Georgia’s supplies of gas, and its electricity supplies - with 70% of that coming from the Inguri power plant in Abkhazia. Make the ports at Poti and Batumi inoperable, along with the oil terminal at Supsa, and the railway lines to Azerbaijan and Turkey.”

The kicker? The model is the U.S. bombing campaign against Serbia:

“Ruslan Pukhov agrees: “The USA demonstrated in Yugoslavia what ought to be done in this kind of situation. It isn’t clear why television broadcasting and cell-phones are still functioning in Georgia. I hope Russia at least decides to establish a 10-15 kilometer buffer zone around South Ossetia, patrolled by infantry
as well as from the air.”"

Full article after the jump…

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Following news of the suicide of a leading suspect in the anthrax attacks Glenn Greenwald has a piece at Salon about the unanswered questions related to the incidents. Most significant among these concerns a rumor about an Iraq connection to the attacks, propagated by ABC news, which, Greenwald points out, significantly affected the mood in the months up to the decision to go to war with Iraq. As he notes, the most curious question is why it is that the media has not been more curious about an apparently persistent attempt to point the investigation toward Iraq.