US opened up pandora's box by invading Iraq

"It's a pity that some of our partners instead of helping are in fact trying to get in the way,I mean among other things the United States airlifting Georgia's military contingent from Iraq effectively into the conflict zone The scale of their cynicism causes surprise, it's the ability to cast white as black and black as white which is surprising, the ability to cast the aggressor as the victim and blame the victims for the consequences. Of course, Saddam Hussein ought to have been hanged for destroying several Shiite villages, and the incumbent Georgian leaders who razed ten Ossetian villages at once, who ran elderly people and children with tanks, who burned civilian alive in their sheds — these leaders must be taken under protection."

Vladimir Putin