Last week, the left had Georgia on its mind, or what's left of it -- Georgia and its mind.

Its bizarre but wholly predictable reaction to the worst Russian aggression since the end of the Cold War was to blame President George W. Bush for something Moscow has been doing since the days of the Romanovs -- invading and dominating neighboring states.

But in the left's fevered imagination, Bush created the precedent for a move Putin has probably been planning (or at least contemplating) since he became president of Russia in 1999 -- 4 years before Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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