"The conflict has devastated parts of Georgia and South Ossetia, with many casualties reported. The U.N. refugee agency said more than 158,000 people had been displaced by fighting in Georgia, mostly from districts outside the breakaway territories where the fighting began."

The figure above is rather astounding since the conflict is about only 40,000 unhappy people in the area we are calling South Ossetia, a part of Georgia.

To "rescue" them, the Russians have started a conflict that has displaced 158,000 innocent civilians from all over the nation of Georgia, and that number can only rise.

As I said before, if the Ossetian minority, about 57% of the disputed region's total population want to leave, Russia should be sending vans and busses, not MIGs and tanks.