How majority of Russians see the role of Russia today?

[mikeaverko]

You don't know what you're talking about.

That's not true at all with Iraq. A point noted on the weekly Fox News show NewsWatch.

Tony Blair gave an address okaying the crackdown against media outlets deemed as aiding and abetting terrorism.

The smug Anglo-American foreign policy/media elites who didn't critique Blair's address (to the contrary in overall terms), would do so in the instance of Putin stating such.

[HumanRightsMatter2005]

Originally posted by vorosilov

Still,

If I was Russian I would be a very proud Russian and I wouldn't care what a Pole, Estonian of Ukrainian try to say about me and my country.

Yes because the Russians think they are above criticism and everyone else is wrong.

[HumanRightsMatter2005]

"They got what they wanted"? "Just war"?

One of the requirements for a war to be just is that you don't target innocent people. That's in the Geneva Conventions, to which Russia is supposedly a signatury. Those conventions are not only being flouted, they are being trampled on with a blatent disregard for human life. More a war of terrorism than a war on terrorism.

Michal_PL, I think you are very lucky that your country escaped the clutches of that army. Glad my country isn't in that part of the world.

"Chechens helped them during the occupation - so we had to punish everybody who helped the invaders."

No they didn't. I have seen maps of the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union at its greatest extent, and it doesn't include Chechnya. Stalin deported the Chechens, Ingush because he was extremely paranoid.

[mikeaverko]

What about Japanese North Americans during the same time period you hypocritically bigoted jerk.

Civilians often die when terrorists use them as human shields. In some instances, civilians as such aid terrorists.

What about Fallujah?

[Balamut]

Stalin deported the Chechens, Ingush because he was extremely paranoid.

Or because he was child of the mountines, and knew who is who.

[HumanRightsMatter2005]

Originally posted by mikeaverko
What about Japanese North Americans during the same time period you hypocritically bigoted jerk.

Civilians often die when terrorists use them as human shields. In some instances, civilians as such aid terrorists.

What about Fallujah?

The media needs to be able to see what is going in Chechnya, just like Iraq. I am not responsible for what happened in North America btw I am European. 81% of Irish people, 66% of British people, 90% of Spanish people, etc. are against the war in Iraq. But at least we know about Fallujah. Remember Abu Ghraib? We only know about it because of media coverage. Chances are, if we never found out about it, there would be lots more of them around so the media acts as a check of sorts on human rights.

The internment of the entire Japanese people and confiscation of their property in US was wrong I agree. At least they weren't killed though.

[Balamut]

Well, people know about ruined Grozny full well, don't they?.