Cheney attacks on Russia "incomprehensible": Kremlin

[Osborn F Enready]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060504/...a_kremlin_dc_1

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin on Thursday rejected as "completely incomprehensible" remarks by Vice President Dick Cheney that Russia was backsliding on democracy and using its vast energy supplies to bully its neighbors. "The speech of Mr. Cheney in our opinion is full of a subjective evaluation of us and of the processes that are going on in Russia. The remarks ... are completely incomprehensible for us," said Kremlin deputy spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Cheney, in remarks that could cause tense moments when Russian President Vladimir Putin hosts his first summit of the G8 industrialized nations in July, earlier told Baltic and Black Sea leaders in Vilnius that Moscow should return to the path of democratic reform.

Well, these guys (Bush, Cheney) won't be happy until we isolate EVERYONE in regards to U.S. policy, and officially start WWIII.

:rolleyes:

[Morgan_Freeman]

Apparently so....

[gr8fuldaniel]

It looks like Russia and China are conspiring to keep us away from our oil in Iran.

Edit to add:
And the reptile Dick Vader and the recess appointment John "Wifebeater" Bolton wont have it. Let the hissing and raving proceed.......

2nd Edit:
By "our oil" I mean ExxonMobils' oil, a Saudi Corporation in bed with our kingdom, The United Corporations of America.

[Matt W]

I really do not understand Cheney's logic at all. Yes, various human rights groups, democracy groups and all the rest of it would like to see this sort of public dressing down - but by the US? At this time? Another case of foot-in-mouth.....

[Elven6]

I think Russia should have figured out the fact that they just get bullied around after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Russia could do what ever they want with their gas, if USA dosen't like the treatment then mabye they could ship some of their resources to those "bullied" countrys.

[bishop]

and in separate but related news, we're looking to bestow our missile defense "shield" to our new east european allies.. read all about it.

The administration's proposal, which comes amid rising concerns about Iran's suspected program to develop nuclear weapons, calls for installing 10 antimissile interceptors at a European site by 2011. Poland and the Czech Republic are among the nations under consideration. A recommendation on a European site is expected to be made this summer to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Pentagon officials say. The Pentagon has asked Congress for $56 million to begin initial work on the long-envisioned antimissile site, a request that has run into some opposition in Congress. The final cost, including the interceptors themselves, is estimated at $1.6 billion. The establishment of an antimissile base in Eastern Europe would have enormous political implications. The deployment of interceptors in Poland, for example, would create the first permanent American military presence on that nation's soil and further solidify the close ties between the defense establishments of the two nations. While the plan has been described in Congressional testimony and in published reports, it has received relatively little attention in the United States. But it is a subject of lively discussion in Poland and has also prompted Russian charges that Washington's hidden agenda is to expand the American presence in the former Warsaw Pact nation. Gen. Yuri N. Baluyevsky, the chief of the Russian military's general staff, has sought to stir up Polish opposition to the plan. "What can we do?" General Baluyevsky told the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza in December. "Go ahead and build that shield. You have to think, though, what will fall on your heads afterward. I do not foresee a nuclear conflict between Russia and the West. We do not have such plans. However, it is understandable that countries that are part of such a shield increase their risk."

i thought we were on the road towards positive relations with russia immediately after bush became president in 2000... but, once the neocons shoved their puppeteer hands up bush's ass, u.s.-russian relations have completely soured.