Why is russia attacking georgia

Because Georgia attacked South Ossetia. "Because Russia wants to annex parts of Georgia." No. Parts of Georgia want to break away and be returned to Russia.

Because Russia wants to annex parts of Georgia. This is not a new problem, Russia fueled a civil war in the early 1990s with this goal in mind and has been arming rebel factions ever since.

Because they got power to attack. USA and Russia both bully weak and defenseless countries.

They know Jimmy Carter lives there and the appeaser won't fight back.

Basically when USSR collapsed a small piece of land called South Ossetia separated from Georgia - de facto after a civil was in Georgia in 1990. They there were tensions ever after with Russia actively supporting Ossetia, including making them Russian citizens, paying them pensions etc. There were talks about Ossetia joining Russia. A couple days ago Georgian president declared a ceasefire and like three hours later bombed Ossetia killing 2000 civilians. Russia retaliated and invaded Georgia. Russians say don't intend to topple Georgian government, they just want to send a message. It's pretty complicated, no one in the west media talks about Georgian government being a US puppet and Georgia attacking Ossetia. This August Georgia forced over 35,000 people across the Russian border when they attacked Ossetia. Russia is there as a peacekeeper between the two countries, and it strictly follows the guidelines for this matter given to them back in the 1992 by the UN. In case one side attacks the other Russia will protect the side being attacked in this case S.Ossetia. Ossetia can never be a part of Georgia they had a civil war a two referendums that confirmed it. Besides the west recognized Kosovo just this year. What I'm saying is that the west is just as full of crap as Georgia and Russia. I heard McCains speech today, well he just tried to create an enemy that's what he runs on. Bush ran on Taliban, McCain on Russia. Sure there's this pipeline in Georgia and the US wants a pro-western government there. Georgia is a small and weak country so now there's the west and Russia fighting two set up their puppet governments. If there was a pro-Russian government Russia could use that oil pipe for it's strategic goals. Like shut it off and bring the oil price even higher. And it's not just the pipe, Russia has geopolitical interest in countries along it's border, just like the US has interest in Mexico, Canada, the US has their bases all over the world. Oh yeah, and Georgia was offered to join NATO by Condi Rice. Russia doesn't want Georgia to become sort of Russia's Cuba. The next think you know the US will be placing their missile defenses there. I think they already have some in Poland. I believe the last time Russia tired to place it's missiles so close to the US we've never been closer the nuclear holocaust and the US reacted just as badly as Russia. Hell, the US still has its embargo against Cuba.

"david h" you have no idea what does history mean just go to library not to tv, it was same in 1921, etc, etc... they need the territory because of it's location, plus they hate the fact that the country that has been their puppet for so many years has started to live again, to gain power and freedom and peace... they are the imperialist, they have never made any advance since soviet union ( except the fact that they kill people in a new way every year , that's a real advance lol )

From what I have read, and its been hard trying to decipher between facts and inflated facts. Georgia has been separated for awhile. Similar to the way Germany was separated.