History is stoking a new conflict in Georgia amid an already divisive election season. The ruling Georgian Dream party provoked outrage among a large swathe of the population when its founder and honorary chairman, Bidzina Ivanishvili, suggested in a recent speech that Georgia might apologize for launching a 2008 attack on the separatist territory of South Ossetia, an action that sparked a brief war with Russia. “Today, we are well aware that the August War of 2008 was not the wish of either the Georgian or the Ossetian people,” said Ivanishvili, speaking in Gori, a city not far from the Osset…