Russia: To Withdraw, Or Not?

So which is it? I look at the headlines of the past couple days and see glaring inconsistencies. VOA, the propaganda instrument of the US Government says Russia is withdrawing to pre-war positions. Yet the LA-Times quotes a Russian General that they will continue to occupy 18 positions in Georgia in their peacekeeping role.
Clearing the Russians will not be withdrawing completely from Georgia. It appears the Bush Administration is trying to "spin" an occupation into "peacekeeping".
I suspect the Bush Administration is in damage control mode, recognizing it has little to say to Russia to prevent them from doing what they want, so is trying to spin an actual continuing occupation into "peacekeeping" by the Russians, a "face saving" position for Bush, proposed by the Russians that might allow a Republican president to look tough and effective on the eve of the election where a Republican replacement is less than assured.

Los Angeles Times

Russia plans to establish a long-term presence in Georgia and one of its breakaway republics by adding 18 checkpoints, including at least eight within undisputed Georgian territory outside the pro-Russian enclave of South Ossetia, a ranking Russian military official told reporters Wednesday.
The checkpoints will be staffed by hundreds of Russian troops, the official said, and those within Georgia proper will have supplies ferried to them from breakaway South Ossetia.

VOA News

Russia says all of its forces in Georgia will be withdrawn by late Friday into a 'buffer zone' around the separatist region of South Ossetia, where Georgian troops will no longer be allowed. Georgia, however, doubts Moscow's assurances, and says the boundaries of the buffer zone are not clearly defined. VOA Correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports from Moscow.
General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the deputy head of Russia's General Staff, told a Moscow news conference that, once Russian troops are in the buffer zone along the perimeter of South Ossetia, Russia will observe a 1992 peacekeeping agreement with Georgia. However, he says Russia is amending the agreement to exclude Georgian forces from the area.
Nogovitsyn says Georgian leaders recalled their peacekeeping forces in South Ossetia at the start of the invasion and sent them in the direction of the regional capital, Tskhinvali, thus violating the agreement. The general says that, in Russia's view, Georgia, therefore, has no right to engage in peacekeeping activities in the buffer zone.

Then I tripped over this article buried in a Philadelphia Newspaper.
The Bulletin

The U.S representative to the U.N. blasted Russia on Wednesday for allegedly violating almost all elements of the six-point peace plan for Georgia that it had already signed.
This comes after Russia refused to back a French-backed Security Council draft resolution on Monday, which would have ratified the ceasefire plan in the international arena between Russia and Georgia.
While Russia asserts that the draft resolution differed from the six-point peace plan that it agreed to, Deputy Permanent Representative of the U.S. Alejandro D. Wolff read through all the points of the six-point plan, noting that since Russia had accepted it they had violated it in almost every way possible.
"We've had questions in our minds, and we've articulated them in the council from the very beginning, what Russian intentions are and what Russian motives are," Mr. Wolff said.
Mr. Wolff noted that although the plan called for a cessation of hostilities and not to resort to the use of force, Russia had not ceased fighting.
In addition, Russia had not held to its commitment of granting unimpeded access to humanitarian aid organizations.
While Georgian forces were supposed to be allowed to withdraw to their bases, Mr. Wolff noted that Russia had destroyed Georgian bases.
Russian armed forces were also supposed to withdraw to the positions held before hostilities began in South Ossetia, something they have not yet done.
According to Russian representative Vitaly Churkin, the draft resolution contradicted the six-point peace plan that it had agreed to. While the draft resolution called for Russian military positions to return to where they were prior to the conflict, Moscow insists that it had agreed on the condition that the necessity of maintaining military positions in the Georgian part of the border with South Ossetia would be fulfilled.

Do you suppose the Bush Administration tried to kill this story?