Bush Warns Russia, Sends Aid to Georgia

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WASHINGTON - President Bush put the U.S. more firmly than ever on Georgia's side in its conflict with Russia on Wednesday, sending humanitarian aid on U.S. military planes to help the embattled former Soviet republic and displaying growing impatience with Moscow's aggression.

Six days into the fighting in the tiny, impoverished country wedged between Russia and Turkey on the Black Sea, Bush said Moscow's apparent violation of a cease-fire agreement puts its aspirations for global acceptance at risk. In brief but stern remarks from the White House Rose Garden, the president demanded that Russia end all military activity inside its neighbor and withdraw all troops sent in recent days into Georgian territory.

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Bush Warns Russia, Sends Aid to Georgia

Amid some fear that Russian troops might be setting up for some type of medium-term occupation of parts of Georgia, or might even press on to its capital of Tbilisi, Bush promised to "rally the free world in the defense of a free Georgia."

Bush postponed to day's planned start of a two-wee...

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