Russia to Evacuate Over 800 from Iraq

Reuters ^ | Wed Apr 14, 2004

[Cap Huff]

I'm not going to try to decipher all that you have replied, but this is clear:

"We have enough problems in our home . . . "

That you do, and I wish you well. Zhelayu vam uspyekha.

[mewzilla]

Good riddence.

[Vigilantcitizen]

By the way, if there were street combats in the city where you work - will you heroically go to office crawling among ruins and hiding from angry kidnappers? :-) Or will you "chicken"?

Every day, more people are shot dead in LA, Detroit, NY, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago than there are in Iraq.

[Cap Huff]

It's possible, and would account for the rather uncharacteristic behavior. The kidnapping would then have been staged.

I'm not subscribing to the theory, but it's worth thinking about. I'll keep my mind open to consider any idea that will explain this action.

[mplsconservative]

Russian Programmer
Since April 14, 2004

Yet Another Russian
Since April 14, 2004

How interesting a new "Russian" contingent decided to sign up today just in time for this thread. Hmmmm....

[kattracks]

According to the article there will be 800 evacuated. All civilian engineers? I don't think so.

[TrueBeliever9]

This is good news! Everyone that has a spirit of fear of these murdering Islamics should leave! Good riddance!

[MJY1288]

"Russia is NOT an ally of the U.S. in Iraq. There is NO Russian occupation troops in Iraq. So its a little silly to speak about "chicken Russians".

Russia was an ally of Saddam and it's clearly a cowardly move to pull out of Iraq at the demands of the terrorists whether the Russians in Iraq were soldiers or civilians

Terrorist in Iraq = 1
Russians in Iraq = 0

[Vigilantcitizen]

The problem is that we knew that

1) Saddam had NO WMD

2) Osama HATED Saddam

No, the problem is Saddam was Russia's biggest purchaser of tanks, AA missles, RPG's, and small arms. And quite frankly, after desert storm one when the dominance of the M-1 Abrams was displayed for the whole world to see, I'm sure worldwide demand for Russian tanks slipped some.

[Hun in the sun]

"Are you shure that American companies are clean?"

Well... it`s all about "russian elephants",
you know

They are talking about their version of it :o)

Hun

[Two-Bits]

Hi, Please take a moment and either call the President or send an email to let him know we, the American people back him. Also, if you could just tell one person to do the same and ask them to tell another, than God willing, we will flood the switchboard with calls and faxes like they have never seem. This is one way we can take it direct to the President and it can not be misled by the media or stupid polls.....
Please call or email and God bless:
Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414 FAX: 202-456-2461 E-Mail President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov Vice President Richard Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov

[Hun in the sun]

"This is funny..russia trying to act like they are important"

What`s so funny about this?

Russia is important because it`s rich.
Rich of endless resources on their *own* soil.

The importance of the US is, after all,
just based on it`s military power, which
is in turn based on credits, which are based
on the role of the $ as a key currency.
The moment the rest of the world will stop
to finance these credits with their economical
power and base their trade on euro, Yen or
whatever... the importance of the US is gone.

So, the US should treat *rich* countries
with a little bit more respect, Comrade

Hun

[Mo1]

WHAT IF WE EXPELLED THE RUSSIANS!

Now that could explain why they are running out of there faster then the UN did

[Hun in the sun]

"Every day, more people are shot dead in LA, Detroit, NY, Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago than there are in Iraq."

Yes, but not in Moscow or Berlin.
And now guess why :-)

Hun

[Hun in the sun]

"Russia was an ally of Saddam"

When, pls?

We all know this pic, Rummie shaking hands
with Saddam.
I haver seen a similiar pic, let`s say showing
Yelzin and Saddam.

Hun