Gumby
05-04-2006, 11:10 PM
Cold War is reheated as Cheney tells off Moscow
DICK CHENEY, the US Vice-President, accused Russia yesterday of eroding a decade of democratic reform and blackmailing Europe with its energy reserves, in America??s sharpest rebuke to President Putin.
Speaking at a summit of eight former Eastern bloc countries that have turned against Moscow, Mr Cheney said that the Kremlin should embrace democracy or risk harming relations with more countries.
??America and Europe want to see Russia in the category of healthy democracies, and yet opponents of democracy in Russia are seeking to reverse the progress of the past decade,? he said. ??In many areas of civil society ?? from religion and the news media to advocacy groups and political parties ?? the Government has unfairly and improperly restricted the rights of the people.?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2165502,00.html
do we really have to find a reason to piss off everone?? when do you all wake up and get he's a dictator??
DICK CHENEY, the US Vice-President, accused Russia yesterday of eroding a decade of democratic reform and blackmailing Europe with its energy reserves, in America??s sharpest rebuke to President Putin.
Speaking at a summit of eight former Eastern bloc countries that have turned against Moscow, Mr Cheney said that the Kremlin should embrace democracy or risk harming relations with more countries.
??America and Europe want to see Russia in the category of healthy democracies, and yet opponents of democracy in Russia are seeking to reverse the progress of the past decade,? he said. ??In many areas of civil society ?? from religion and the news media to advocacy groups and political parties ?? the Government has unfairly and improperly restricted the rights of the people.?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2165502,00.html
do we really have to find a reason to piss off everone?? when do you all wake up and get he's a dictator??