[jb6]

When in the Hell has Russia, Bolshevik Russia, Communist Russia, or any Russia, ever been a friend of the US?

When the Tsar sent his fleets to NYC and San Fran harbors in 1861 as a direct threat to England and France not to enterfer in the War between the States. In the Boxer Rebelion, in WW1 and WW2 and in Afghanistan. When Putin came out on record that he gave evidence on Saddam's hanky panky to Bush and when he defended Bush's war on TV and reminded our left media of the Kosovo blunder.

How is that for starters?

[Luis Gonzalez]

That's not only starters, that's the end.

How ridiculous is it that I'm dismissed about my fears of Russia's reverting to communism after a little more than a decade of democracy, because the Soviet Union died in 1991, then you turn around and put up something that happened 143 years ago as some ridiculous proof of the "friendship" between the US and Russia.

[MarMema]

When the Tsar sent his fleets to NYC and San Fran harbors in 1861 as a direct threat to England and France not to enterfer in the War between the States. In the Boxer Rebelion, in WW1 and WW2 and in Afghanistan. When Putin came out on record that he gave evidence on Saddam's hanky panky to Bush and when he defended Bush's war on TV and reminded our left media of the Kosovo blunder.

I'd say that's a pretty good start.