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Dick Cheney -- the mystery about his whereabouts this week at least partially solved -- wrote the adjacent message in the condolence book at the Embassy of Georgia in Washington yesterday. It's not clear what his claim of "solidarity" extends to, but probably not to reconsidering the role that his own imperial presidency philosophy has played in weakening the international norms that might have prevented the Russian incursion from happening.

White House photo by David Bohrer