Posted on 09/07/2004 12:03:16 PM PDT by Pikamax
WASHINGTON AP) - The Bush administration differed Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and said that only a political settlement could end the crisis between Russia and the breakaway region of Chechnya.
The administration also left open the possibility of U.S. meetings with Chechens who are not linked to terrorists.
Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage signed a book of condolences at the Russian Embassy over the deaths of at least 330 people, most of them children, during a hostage-taking last week at a school in the southern city of Beslan.
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"You mean you believe they are to blame for the actions of the chechens. "
Luis Gonzales is still fighting the cold war. He probably works for the state dept. Lots of people like him over there.
This is a mistake of monumental proportion. It fact if this is for real, I will not be voting for Bush. These people just murdered 400 children and Russia is supposed to sit down and talk to them? Has this administration lost it mind? This had better not be for real.
"By the way...
Why is Russia occupying Chechnya?"
Thats like asking "why the US is occupying Texas?" We kicked Mexico's butt is why Texas is part of the US today.
Texas won it's independence on it's own, no help from USA. Well, the US did have an Army sitting on the Texas/La border just waiting for the Mexican army to get close and Houston was heading towords it as fast as he could, but his (Houston's) army got tried of running at decided on thier own to fight. They kicked Mexican butt, and the US army went home.
"Texas won it's independence on it's own, no help from USA."
I know. I live in Texas, thats why I said we. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
What the war in Chechnya is all about
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1207486/posts
The Religious Roots of Conflict: Russia and Chechnya
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1207961/posts
You don't know any Chechens do you?
Yes sir....That was my initial reaction.
>"Are you aware that nearly half of Chechnya's population has
>been killed or displaced by the Russian occupation?"
Good. So it's halftime.
Like in the American phase of WWII, they come in handy every once in a while :-)
What?
You hang out with Chechens?
YOU are advocating genocide, right in this thread.
And here's another one advocating genocide.
Words for deaf ears.
So then, now you are a supporter of the Communist expansion in Europe post Bolshevism, and you equate it to the American expansion in our continent.
Just so we have no problem understanding one another:
You---Unites States=Soviet Union.
You're comparing the US with Reagan's "Evil Empire".
I know what you are now.
To be perfectly clear, I'm advocating philosophide. I don't care whose DNA the Muslims we exterminate carry.
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