Wait a minute! Didn't Russia fight George W. Bush when he asked

[zbdent]

them to vote for The War For Oil, er, extending the War On Terror (tm) to Iraq?

Then why are the "terrorists" hitting them? From what Rush, Nugent, Alan Jackson, dittoheads, and others of their ilk would try to tell you, the terrorists would just absolutely LOVE the Russians!!

Or, am I "W"? (W stands for Wrong!)

[daveskilt]

1. but now bush wants putin to negotiate with the terrorists

Putin told him to jump in the lake - "why don't you invite bin laden to the white house and give him what he wants to leave you alone"

[Liberal Veteran]

2. They aren't getting hit by terrorists....

They are getting hit by FREEDOM FIGHTERS (which is what we call the terrorists we like).

[bob reynolds]

3. unfortunately true.......n/t

[Kinkistyle]

4. Well, kinda apples and oranges.

Its like asking why Hezbollah still sends out suicide bombers after Sinn Fein called a ceasefire.

[Aidoneus]

5. Hizbu'llah doesn't "still send out suicide bombers"

That mistake aside, the comparison is quite sound. That is indeed apples & oranges.

On the side, the Chechen Resistance was more or less neutral on Iraq (not so now in the period of occupation). ChRI President and ChRI Armed Forces Commander Aslan Maskhadov is somewhat pro-US in general, more from a tactical standpoint, though Commander Basayev is not. Both hated Saddam Hussein because he took the Russian side and because he was seen as a tyrannical apostate in most proper Muslim circles.

I wouldn't catagorize Russia's stance on Iraq as "fighting" the invasion & occupation. Thousands of Russians volunteered to resist the invasion, but I don't recall any of them being given an official escort. In fact, since the so-called opposition that made the sadistic butcher Putin the hero of "anti-war" liberals, there has been nothing but coddling and low-key diplomatic support for the criminal occupation and the quisling puppet regime set up by the invaders. I guess it all hit a bit close to home and a deal was hammered out (maybe they're choking down the dignity and are just setting the idiot up for a big fall sometime later, but I can only speak on what I see in the present). Much the same goes for the French & Germans.