Musharraf has two choices. He can dispense with any pretense of democracy or he can give up power. Since he has not dispensed with democracy yet, I think he is going to have to give up power. From The Nation…..

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Saturday that impeachment proceedings would start if President Musharraf did not resign within next two days.

“The President will have to make up his mind about resignation by today (Saturday) or tomorrow (Sunday) as there is no room for delay. Otherwise, the process of impeachment will start,” he said while talking to the journalists here at Multan Airport.

He pointed out that besides federation, its all four units also raised voice against President Musharraf. “Even opposition members are also in favour of his impeachment,” he claimed. He said that the president should seriously consider the demand of all sections of the society. “The federation of Chambers of Commerce as well as Ex-Servicemen Society have requested him to resign in view of condition of country’s economy,” he maintained.

Georgians being used for forced labor.

The fight over the black sea.

And a really good overview from the Wall Street Journal.

From Spiegel….

After promising to leave, Russian troops haven’t budged from Georgia in the wake of a surprising flare-up of violence in the Caucasus. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev also wouldn’t budge in his posture toward Angela Merkel during a mini-summit on Friday. German commentators wonder if Russia cares about Europe at all.

Of course Russia cares about Europe. It is a tasty morsel. If Russia controls Georgia and the pipeline that goes through it, they will have greater power over Europe. But does Europe really care who its overlords are?

Some of these pictures may bother some people.

From Danger Room Comes a link to a speech that Bush gave today promising aid to Georgia with commentary.

From SPIEGEL comes a report from the Georgian city of Gori

From Michael A. Reynolds come a good overview of the history of Georgia. (H/T Abu Muqawama)

From McClatchy Newspapers…

In Chevy Chase, for example, where speeding tickets brought in about $8,000 monthly before cop cams, “We are routinely bringing in approximately a quarter-million dollars per month,” Geoffrey Biddle, Chevy Chase’s village manager, told his Board of Managers in February.

For a community of 2,000 with an annual budget of $4.6 million, that’s a bonanza. What’s more, because locals know enough to evade the cop cams, the village’s new revenue mostly comes from outsiders, rather like a commuter tax.

To much was made of the few Russian planes that Georgia manged to down. From McClatchy Newspapers…..

At first, news of Russia’s aerial attacks came in fragments. An airfield was hit, a radar station demolished. But by Monday, as bombs fell among the withdrawing Georgian forces, it was only too clear what the Russians had been up to.

The early strikes had made it impossible for Georgians, who in the war’s first day had shot down four Russian aircraft, to mount an effective response. Now Russian jets could dominate the skies.

Col. Gen. Anatoly Nagovitsin, the deputy head of the Russian military’s general staff, put it bluntly: “I can report on Russian supremacy in the airspace. Georgian aircraft stopped flying.”

Outside Tskhinvali, Georgian soldiers huddled beneath trees and bridges, trying to stay out of the line of sight of passing Russian jets. In addition to military trucks, troops were being moved around in civilian buses and vans. In Gori, soldiers worked out of a university building.

They had to hide; there was no answer to the Su-25 fighter jets, TU-22 bombers and others streaking nearby, looking for prey.

If you read the full article, you will get a lot of direct quotes from Georgian soldiers.