'Russia has launched a full scale military invasion,' Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said today in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital. Saakashvili is planning to withdraw Georgia's entire 2,000-men contingent from Iraq within three days to help repel the Russians, even as Saakashvili calls for 'an immediate ceasefire' in a conflict that Russian officials claim has killed 2,000 and left 30,000 homeless.
The Russian defense ministry tells the New York Times that '100 planeloads of airborne troops' will be flown into the conflict zone -- on top of the 2,500 troops already estimated to be in the country. ....
