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| Gorbachev calls for end to "bloodbath" in Iraq |
| 2003-04-05 |
| Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev called here Friday on the United States and Britain Friday to end the "bloodbath" in Iraq and allow the United Nations to resolve the crisis. "Those that think they are leading themselves towards victory and will achieve their goals are wrong," Gorbachev said, following talks with Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud, in an allusion to the US-led coalition invading Iraq. "This is only the beginning and it is time to end the bloodbath and return to peaceful solutions under the authority of the United Nations." We're ending it, Splotch, check out the tanks in Baghdad today. "I agree with President Lahoud on the need to work to restore the authority of the United Nations and oppose violations of international law," said Gorbachev, on his first visit to Lebanon. Ah, the Mantra of International Law. Always amusing to listen to a Commie leader talk about international law. Gorbachev, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has been a vocal opponent of the war in Iraq, although as president he fell in line with the United States during the 1991 Gulf War over Kuwait. On March 24, he drew a parallel between the US-led invasion of Iraq and the ill-fated Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and said he believed the war was the result of a domestic economic and social crisis in the United States. Better parallel is our invasion of Afghanistan, but we understand Mike, it hurts to make that particular comparison. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 gorby is actually quite unpopular in Russia today; having him spout off against us is a positive there; of course there are the idiotarians in the US itself who still worship gorby but their brains are inpenetrable in any case |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-04-05 19:24:56 |
| #2 Ummm.....Misha, baby, we ARE stopping the bloodletting by Saddam's thugs.....but it is nice to have a world leader admit that the UN needs to have it's authority restored. (snicker) |
| Posted by: Former Russian Major 2003-04-05 10:03:41 |
| #1 Of course, he said this in Lebanon, one of the worst of the state sponsors' of terrorism in the Middle East. I'm sure they'd like to see an end to the blood-letting. I would suggest that they pay very close attention to what is happening in Iraq. There are those of us who have never forgotten the blood-letting - and subsequent dancing in the streets - perpetrated on our marines.Those who now demand that we continue to "respect" and underwrite that pack of thugs and back-stabbers that make up the UN are eventually going to have to recognize the little noticed American street - which is thoroughly disgusted with the whole lying system.International law, indeed. When I see them applying this supposed "law" objectively and even-handedly, I'll give it a good think. Otherwise, the hypocracy has been vividly exposed for what it is: the international equivalent of "it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is." |
| Posted by: Dee Bates 2003-04-05 04:24:52 |