Yes, Russia, It Is You Who Is the Hypocrite, not the US

So Russia seeks to cast the US as hypocritical for expressing opposition to it's invasion of Georgia and has the audacity to raise the issue of Iraq? Well, let's put some things into perspective and just see who is the hypocrite.

If we look at crises that are actually analogous to the Georgia situation we see a completely different picture. In the Iraq war that actually is analogous to the current crisis in Georgia, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the US pushed Saddam out of Kuwait and back to his border. The US did not invade Iraq at that time. When Serbian troops were committing genocide against the Kosovo Albanians, NATO, led by the US, repulsed the Serbian troops only sufficiently to put a stop the genocide. And if you want to bring up the US invasion of Iraq, it took 12 years of as many UN resolutions that were obstructed, circumvented or simply ignored by Saddam before the US invaded. And even then the US attempted to gain the support of the international community. It didn't even take Russia 12 hours before they invaded Georgia.

Anytime the international community attempts to deal with crises around the world, Russia is always there acting to obstruct those attempts. Russia is always pushing for interminable talks, diplomacy, and negotiation. Even peaceful attempts with resolutions, sanctions, or peace keeping troops are obstructed by Russia. Russia states it's position as non-interference in the internal affairs of other sovereign states, even when those "internal affairs" include atrocities such as genocide. Now that there is a crisis in a sovereign nation they have an interest in, do they exercise the restraint and non-intervention in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation that they impose on other nations by use of their veto power at the UN? No, they completely bypass all peaceful approaches such as the talks, diplomacy and negation they demand others utilize, they bypass the other peaceful approaches of resolutions and sanctions, and they even bypass a measured military action to repulse Georgian troops out of South Ossetia and go straight for the jugular with a full scale invasion of Geogia, a sovereign nation, with overwhelming military force. So why is it ok for Russia to immediately resort to extreme military force to "meddle in the internal affairs of a sovereign state" whenever they choose yet they obstruct even peaceful attempts of other nations and the UN to resolve other crises? If Russia wants to see hypocracy in international affairs, it need only look in the mirror.