"..We mistook messages from the US administration as encouragement to use force against Georgia's breakaway provinces..our actions lauched the war.."

Georgian Ambassador, in AP, here

"...Erosi Kitsmarishvili, who was ambassador to Moscow in the months before the August war, said the Georgian government's actions had launched the conflict.Kitsmarishvili's comments appeared to support the Russian arguments. But he also accused Moscow of provoking the Georgian action, and said "both parties share the blame."