They better remember this.
Posted on 11/09/2004 1:07:57 PM PST by Pirate21
MOSCOW — The intense U.S.-led assault on Fallujah could undermine Iraq's upcoming elections, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned Tuesday, and the United Nations' refugee agency expressed concern about the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the besieged city. "We are ... concerned that the actions in this region not worsen the conditions in Iraq as a whole in the run-up to the possible elections there," Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko told a news conference when asked for comment on the Fallujah offensive.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees also expressed concern about Fallujah's civilians, tens of thousands of whom are believed to have fled as U.S.-led forces battle insurgents. "The most immediate needs of the displaced are food, shelter, water and sanitation and health care," UNHCR spokeswoman Jennifer Clark said in Geneva.
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The United Nations has called Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis, saying the conflict there has claimed 70,000 lives since March — mostly from disease and hunger — and now affects 2 million people, up from 1.8 million in September. U.N. diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said questions have already been raised about the African Union force's ability to prevent attacks and the possible need for U.N. troops to be sent to Darfur as well. But Russia's U.N. Ambassador Andrey Denisov, when asked about the possibility of deploying non-AU troops, said "I don't see it." He called the 3,700-strong AU force already in Darfur "a good contingent" that needs logistical support and should get it.
The Russians are making the same argument against the US that the US made against them in Chechnya.
Pirate-
Your absolutely right. After all they did in Chechnya, they can make statements like this? Talk about the height of hypocracy.
Quote: "We are ... concerned that the actions in this region not worsen the conditions in Iraq as a whole in the run-up to the possible elections there,"
As opposed to allowing the insergents to retain the city forever?
Interesting that even after Beslan the Russians have learned nothing...
They better remember this.
Could be. Or it could be that they are simply throwing it back in our face. Can't figure out why we are siding with the Chechnyans in that war. Seems idiotic.
Touche. OTOH, wonder if the Russians left something behind that might surface in Fallujah.
The Russians did such a great job in Afghanistan and Chechnya, we should listen real close to any suggestions they may drool out of their pie holes.
Yeah, well show me ONE war where civilians didn't flee.
THE UNITED NATIONS IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
In Chechnya, the Russians never trained a Chechnyan army to invade with them. Over 2000 G.I.'s in the Fallujah invasion are Iraqis.
This from the folks who leveled Grozny?
Oh, I forgot, the Russians weren't going to have an election in Chechnya. (Probably a good idea since the Islamocrazies were still in charge, but you see where I'm headed right?)
Their nuts of course. This is going to break the insurgents back. It won't end all the terrorist acts but it will drastically reduce them.
"The Russians did such a great job in Afghanistan and Chechnya, we should listen real close to any suggestions they may drool out of their pie holes"
Required reminder.
Big difference: The US military is quite superior to the ruskies.
All those folks should be home in a few days.
Why heck, we have huricanes down here where I am and have to take a trip out of town every now and then.
Ok Russia... and your Chechen policy is a model for everyone to follow, right? Pffff...
Translation: if we can't do it, nobody can...
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