US involvement in South Ossetia and Georgia war

Since Georgia fired the first shot, and would surely never start a war with Russia unless it had been assured it had the backing of a larger power, the role of the US in this cannot be ignored.

The statements from Bush the Lesser are rather conspicuous - especially since the Georgian forces were trained and enabled by the US and Israel - since he never issues such statements when Israel attacks the Palestinians, but when Russia responds to aggression by US-backed forces, suddenly he finds the words "disproportionate response" easy to utter.

So what is the motive here?

Is this simply the Neo-Cons further provoking Russia? Is this about the pipelines from the Caspian, that either Bush hopes to seize, or disable in order to make his new pipelines in Afghanistan more viable?

Or, as two more carrier groups head for the Straits of Hormuz, is this about tying up Russian forces while the US and Israel gear up for an illegal strike on Iran, in order to limit its response to their aggression?

Source JordanThornton