His disastrous order to blow up the war memorial in Kutaisi, ignoring local and national feeling, resulted in the death of a mother and daughter who were hit quite a long way away by large chunks of flying concrete.
He rushed home from the Copenhagen summit, but still hasn't gone near Kutaisi after 13 days.
A new news service Georgiamediacenter is enjoying its character assassination of him.
See the video of the demolition here or perhaps don't, as You Tube warns you it is too gory.
