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2004-02-08 Europe

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Posted by Raj 2004-02-08 7:13:53 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Given his lack of popularity, such a move on a rivalâs part doesnât make much sense.

Nixon, McGovern, plumbers, Watergate.

Posted by Steve White 2004-2-8 8:47:34 PM|| 2004-2-8 8:47:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I stand corrected. I made the statement before I made the Berezovsky connection.

Posted by Raj 2004-2-8 9:04:09 PM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2004-2-8 9:04:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Media that opposed Putin were shut own and made part of the state machine.

Anyone who opposes Putin ends up either arrested on phony charges or murdered.

Btw, did you know that the murdered Yushenkov was also one of the people who suggested that Moscow bombings which Putin blamed on Chechen terrorists may have in fact been commited by Russia's secret services themselves?

But ofcourse Western warhawks still love Putin because he has committed genocide against Muslims in Chechenya and being a murderer of Muslims gives people carte blanche for other crimes nowadays.

Or is there any other reason that some people here still love Putin?

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-2-8 11:51:33 PM|| 2004-2-8 11:51:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Because he's marginally better than the alternative and the folks killing Russians in Chechnya are the same ones killing our troops in Iraq?

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-2-9 12:01:08 AM|| [http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2004-2-9 12:01:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Nope, they aren't. Other than both being Muslims that is.

And as a sidenote the Chechen government has supported the American invasion of Iraq:

http://www.chechnya-mfa.info/print_news.php?func=detail&par=71

http://www.chechnya-mfa.info/print_news.php?func=detail&par=100

http://www.chechnya-mfa.info/print_news.php?func=detail&par=103

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-2-9 4:41:19 PM|| 2004-2-9 4:41:19 PM|| Front Page Top

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