Russia puts tanks and missiles back in Red Square parade
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia showcased its military might and youthful new president to the world Friday, as heavy tanks and missile launchers rumbled across Red Square in a Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era.
In a nationally broadcast speech two days after his inauguration, President Dmitry Medvedev avoided the bellicose rhetoric of his mentor and predecessor, Vladimir Putin, who drew parallels between United States and Nazi Germany during last year’s parade.
However, in his speech marking victory over Adolf Hitler’s Germany, the 42-year-old Medvedev said the history of World War II demonstrated that military conflicts are rooted in “irresponsible ambitions which prevail over interests of nations and entire continents.”
“We must not allow contempt for the norms of international law,” he said, in what sounded like veiled criticism of the United States and its Western allies…
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The United States of America has never been a perfect country but never before has it “gleefully” shown the world its disdain for what makes the world civilized.
What the Bush team and neocons fostered on the world should not have happened - and would not have happened if the United States House of Representatives had done its job. Instead, Brattleboro, Vermont had to do, symbolically, what the House of Representatives failed to do - IMPEACH the Bush team.
It is difficult to believe that the American electorate will sign-off on the performance of the House of Representatives. If they don’t - there should be housecleaning in America’s House of Representatives. The Bush team should not have been “let loose” on the world. There should have been oversight. The country was designed with that in mind. Somebody, likely,did not do their job.
So now the Bush team has: Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Hamas, Nepal and back again to Lebanon. And after getting done with that - if they ever do, they can try to fix some of the train-wrecks at HOME. While the neocons were busy playing WORLD POLICEMAN, they neglected HOME.
Tags: Nazi Germany, Russia, United States, international law, irresponsible ambitions, military might
