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  • So... how about that Putin? (Check the newpaper of your choice, it'll be the top story.)

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.

 #18705  by Kupek
 Mon Sep 13, 2004 1:37 pm
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Well, one of the top stories.</div>

 #18706  by Lox
 Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:19 pm
<div style='font: bold 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Are you referring to the one about him criticizing his country's terrorism security?</div>

 #18707  by Agent 57
 Mon Sep 13, 2004 3:25 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtm ... 6222980</a>

I think he meant the one where Putin essentially is trying to take over Russia by exploiting the school siege and the threat of terrorism.</div>

 #18711  by ManaMan
 Mon Sep 13, 2004 10:26 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Seems like he's reminiscent of the old Commie days...</div>
 #18712  by Torgo
 Tue Sep 14, 2004 12:02 am
<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Take out the former KGB spy part, and it sounds just like what the Bush administration has been saying since 9/11.</div>

 #18715  by SineSwiper
 Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:23 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Me thinks the executive branch of their government is too strong. Also, 330 dead in that school holdup?! Can they fuck that one up any more? Not even Waco was that bad.</div>

 #18716  by SineSwiper
 Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:24 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Eerie, isn't it? I was going to say that it seems like he's using Bush's same tactics, despite strained relations between the two countries.</div>

 #18730  by Ishamael
 Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:48 pm
<div style='font: 14pt "Sans Serif"; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Mad power grab. Of course considering the corruption and general fucked up nature of the Russian government, it may almost be necessary (of course this makes a good argument against it too)...</div>

 #18732  by Derithian
 Tue Sep 14, 2004 11:54 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>welcome back cold war. the soviet union rises again</div>