You mean like defensive slave raids for 300 years? Or defensive invasions of Daghistan in 1999 that ended in the extermination of several villages?
CHECHNYA VIOLATES BASIC LEGAL NORMS
Chechnya abductee database to be posted on the Net
Again, I stand with President Bush when he declared these acts of evil terrorists, unjustifiable by any (which is exactly what you seem to be doing). He has also had many of the Chechin groups listed officially in the US as terrorists, no better then Hamas. And yes, I do know that there are plenty here in America who try to justify the actions of Hamas, Hezbullah and Islamic Jihad using the exact same accusations against the Jews that you use against the Russians. The same ones that were in turn used against the Serbs and before that against the Christian Lebonese. The same ones used to excuse the massacres of 2 million Christian Sudanese and the ones leveled on the Indians. Yes, I am quite familiar with all these arguements: seems that everywhere Islamics are they just want "independence": Bosnia, Kosovo, western Makedonia, N.Cyprus, NW. Greece, Eritria, Chechnya, Kashmir, Moro Islands, etc, etc and in each of those events, people like you for what ever reason, come out with almost the exact same arguments and defenses of the autrocities of these islamics.
Sorry, I don't buy into this. The time of appeasement went with Clinton and since sKerry will not win, it will not return. I stand with Bush, where do you stand?
Do you?
"I am . . . concerned about the decisions that are being made in Russia that could undermine democracy in Russia," Bush said. "Great countries, great democracies have a balance of power between central government and local governments, a balance of power within central governments between the executive branch and the legislative and the judicial branch." 9/16/04 Source
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US President George W. Bush, in an interview broadcast by Russia's NTV television on Thursday on the eve of talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, said the Chechen issue is Russia's internal affair and will hopefully be resolved peacefully.
Russia's NTV television on Thursday on the eve of talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg, said the Chechen issue is Russia's internal affair and will hopefully be resolved peacefully.
Bush said that he would try to persuade the Russian leader to work toward a peaceful settlement in Chechnya. -- 11/22/02 Source
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Like Bush, I too am concerned about the deconstruction of democracy in Russia, Putin's power grab, and the ongoing backwards move toward totalitarianism that have been the most visible characteristics of the Putin presidency. Like Bush, I believe that Chechnya is an internal Russian problem, and favor a peaceful resolution to the ten year-long war between Chechnya and Russia.