This is really hard to believe. I am sitting in a room filled with women who were beaten, and violated in terrible ways. The room is not in Bosnia, or some far flung third-world hell-hole. I am in a function room in a hotel in Albany at the Battered Mothers Custody Conference. [1]

Russia’s Putin Says Skirmish in Georgia Devised by Bush to Benefit McCain

COLUMBUS, OHIO: The BBC Thursday ran a story about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s speculation that the shooting conflict in Georgia is part of the grand plan of President Bush and his strategists to benefit Republican presidential nominee John S. McCain this fall by creating an international security incident that favors his candidate over Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.