Reply #12: I don't know what the deleted message said, but...

[Ripley]

You said neither Bush nor our military hold children hostage...etc.

I beg to differ. Bush is the Commander in Chief, thus is as responsible as any one soldier in Iraq who have held hundreds of children "hostage" by holding them in prisons the Red Cross has confirmed. There also are reports of rape and torture of children in Iraq prisons by Americans. And as far as killing them....well, dropping bombs does leave Bush with cleaner smelling hands than actually holding the knife, but it still resulted in thousands of dead kids in Iraq.

I'm not in anyway defending the horrible acts in Russia. But like the complete dismissal of Chechnyans and Palestinians because they do horrible acts and to call them monsters is ignorant. I think you people should seriously look at the root cause of these people's behavior and try to fix the problem once and for all, instead of repeating the cycle. Putin will probably do a revenge attack in Chechnya right? Then we'll see another attack on Russian civilians. All too familiar and pathetic when Governments of all countries have 50 years of shit in Isreal to study and LEARN. Something different needs to be tried.