Posted AT 7:38 AM EST on 12/08/08
It is largely about oil pipelines
As Russia's unnecessary, immoral and illegal military campaign in Georgia grinds onward, the world should not be fooled by President Dmitri Medvedev's claim that his troops are fighting "to restore peace to South Ossetia.
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