[Luis Gonzalez]

But I AM siding with Bush on this.

He's being highly critical of the way Putin has not only handled the Chechnya situation, but of the roll back of democracy that he announced Monday while most FReepers followed the CBS forgery story.

[MarMema]

Not a rollback, but a taking of personal responsibility for corruption which led to terrible things in Beslan.

Now you just have to make the leap to trust him. He does not want more children hurt and there is one governor who needs to pay for looking the other way. Meantime this is the only way to be sure that it doesn't happen again. There are too many pro-chechen collaborators sneaking into prominent political positions. Putin is going to make sure none are allowed to recreate Beslan.

[MarMema]

He's being highly critical of the way Putin has not only handled the Chechnya situation, but of the roll back of democracy

Please link to this. Thanks.

[MarMema]

Yeltsin speaking out here