Posted on 03/20/2008 1:19:43 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
MOSCOW (AFP)--Russia's foreign ministry said Thursday that the invasion of Iraq five years ago had turned the country into "one of the most dangerous places on the planet" and led to the death of up to 300,000 people.
"The results are clear," Mikhail Kamynin, a ministry spokesman, said in a statement, referring to the casualties of what he called "a huge military operation without U.N. approval" launched by the U.S. and its allies.
"Up to 300,000 people, according to different estimates, have been killed since the invasion," Kamynin said.
"More than two million people have left their homeland and the number of internal immigrants is more than 2.5 million," he said.
"Iraq has turned into one of the most dangerous places on the planet."
Russia opposed the U.S.-led war on Iraq that toppled the brutal regime of dictator Saddam Hussein.
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Despots, terrorists, and socialists everywhere agree: Iraq is a failure.
Russia, until you can lay the smack down on your mobsters shut your pie holes.
I claim tens of millions of lives are saved because we stopped islamo facism from becoming a global force in the world.
But hey, who am I? not some stellar example to the world like Russia.
Twenty years later and still very bitter about their failure in Afghanistan.
Funny since marines found Russian defensive technology, missile jammers ect.
I believe there is a poster here who would beg to differ about the description.
Russia is a bad joke that has been told too often.
........just cause they got chased out of Afghanistan.
If true, and WE killed them — then they “needed killin”.
Well, except for anywhere in Africa, most places in South America, the Phillipines, etc, etc, etc.
Wow....that’s an average of about 164 EVERY DAY!!!!!
I ain’t seein’ it....
Note to Russia - Worry about the Russian people you kill in your own country and we’ll worry about killing terrorists in Iraq. Oh, also, sorry you got your a$$es handed to you by the Afghans.
300,000?
Since that UN group said sanctions killed 500,000 prior to the war, I guess by invading we saved 200,000 lives.
Great job America! How sick that the left, who said we should have simply kept using sanctions and not invade, wanted to kill an additional 200,000 people.
(using their numbers against them)
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The Russians have us beat. They killed a million people in Afghanistan. These weren’t people killed by terrorists or roadside bombers - they were killed by Russians who indiscriminately bombed and shelled Afghan villages and cities where guerrilla activity was detected. And then there were the Russian mines in the guise of pens and toys.
where does Iraq rank in danger compared to Chechnya?
Iraq was a Soviet, and then a Russian Federation, client state. Of course the drunken ruskies are pissed off. Not only did we roll sodomite’s forces up like a troop of retarded monkeys, we also proved the old sov and former Russian way of doing things in the field of battle to be third string frosh/soph level of competence.
That Russian conga line running away from Bagdad, just as it was falling, didn’t get interdicted and fired up on accident. Not really.
You gotta dig real deep to find a current enemy that wasn’t a former Sov client. We’re still cleaning up the mess the f***tard commie bastards made.
I see Ivan is still smarting over the fact that once again we exposed the Russian military hardware and their training as the garbage that it is. I even read some of your b.s. reports about our and Iraq’s tank losses when the invasion was going on. We also know you still had advisors on the ground when Bush invaded Iraq. Turns out your advice to Iraq wasn’t worth crap either.
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