Posted on 07/12/2006 11:46:02 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Thank GOD Ronald Reagan had the courage to bring the EVIL EMPIRE to its knees and send them retreating from Afghanistan in humiliation and defeat.
Those who served the KGB loyally and still refuse to denounce them to this day may lament the downfall of the Soviet Empire, but the rest of the world rejoices!
Yeah, we should have let the Russian bastards take Afghanistan?
Pootie is a Comrade to the core.
Putin is repeating the myth that the US funded the people who later became the Taliban. That is wrong. We never funded the more radical resistance groups in Afghanistan, including especially the so-called "Arab Afghans" among whom many of today's Al Qaeda including Bin Laden came from. And we never funded the more radical Afghans who later became the Taliban. The groups we funded were the more moderate factions such as that headed by Ahmed Shah Massoud, the so called "Lion of the Panjshir" who was a fierce commander who defeated the Soviet Army nearly a dozen times in major battles in Afghanistan in the 80s and later became a fierce opponent to the Taliban and their Al Qaeda masters. Al Qaeda assassinated Massoud 2 days before 9-11 knowing he would likely be used to spear-head any US response within Afghanistan to 9-11.
So once again, Putin is blowing off his stupid mouth without having all the facts. By the way, so long as he's talking hypocritically about supporting Islamic radicals, maybe he should explain his support of Saddam who trained more jihadi terrorists than any other regime in the Middle East and why Russia continues to work with, enable and fund Iran and their nuclear program while blunting all Western efforts to stop them. What a total, double-talking hypocrite.
Rootin' Tootin' Putin is still a communist.
He's right, you know. We should have done nothing to contest the USSR's control over Afghanistan./sar
What an a**hole.
There is no doubt Putin is trying to re-establish the Soviet Union. But this interview is insulting. Lemme get this straight, we should have just stood by while the Soviet Union marched into country after country? No WMD?!?! Hey comrade commie, your for shyt country helped Saddam move them prior to the war and enabled him. Even now you seek to arm Iran and North Korea all in the interest of bringing back the good ole days of the Soviet Union just to make yourself feel better about its utter and total defeat and collapse.
Putin is a piss ant that stands around picking his posterior while he blames the U.S. and it's allies for shooting the lid off his terrorist connections.
What a load of crap! Wind mills and alternative energy sources are looking really good now.
Putin and the rest of whats left of the russian military was utterly humiliated when the US went into Afganistan and did in a couple weeks what Russia couldn't do in years.
OK, we're supposed to take ol' Pooty-Poot seriously when he's going out of his way to kiss little boys on the tum-tum when the notion strikes him?
I didn't have to peer into Pooty-Poot's eyes to get the measure of his soul, all I had to do was remind myself that "once KGB, ALWAYS KGB".
The Russians brutalized Afghanistan and forced communism on it, while we rebuilt it. Because of this, the insurgency against us was limited to some Taliban types. Against Russia was over 50% of the Afghan people.
Ping
Is that right?
I hope Bush knows that.
Two points:
Russia and Soviet Union are different entities.
Soviet Union did conquer Afghanistan and it took years before Soviet control deteriorated over there.
The 'bastards' in Afganistan were not the Russians, they were the headchopping Islamists.
"Two points:
Russia and Soviet Union are different entities.
Soviet Union did conquer Afghanistan and it took years before Soviet control deteriorated over there."
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And the third point is that Russia has been trying to control the energy markets for years - and they invaded Afghanistan only to go on to Iraq and Iran and Saudia Arabia
"What a total, double-talking hypocrite."
Agreed. And those are his good points! :)
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