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Posted on Mar 31, 2010
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had some angry words Wednesday for the perpetrators of recent violence in the country’s northern Caucasus region.

At least a dozen people died in two suicide blasts in Russia’s north Caucasus region on Wednesday, prompting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to take to the airwaves and call the recent onslaught of terrorist attacks “a crime against Russia.”  —KA

The Washington Post:

Two suicide bombers, including one wearing a police uniform, killed at least a dozen people Wednesday in a coordinated attack in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region, on the same day that a Chechen rebel leader claimed responsibility for deadly bomb attacks earlier this week on the Moscow subway.

The latest explosions, which also injured at least 23 people, took place in Dagestan, the province east of Chechnya, where militants linked to an Islamist insurgency in the region have stepped up attacks over the past year and where shootings and bombings occur almost daily.

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By ofersince72, April 6, 2010 at 9:31 pm Link to this comment

Rfidler

  I am waiting,  dazzle me with your brillance…

  don’t just throw slurs.  Share your vast knowledge

  and intellect.

  I really like the part about the US being the world’s
  wealthiest nation and world’s largest debtor nation
  all at the same time.
  Please , mr intellect, how does that work ?????

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By rico, suave, April 2, 2010 at 5:47 am Link to this comment

ofer:

Thanks for the kind words. See you on the next topic!

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By ofersince72, April 2, 2010 at 5:05 am Link to this comment

rfidler….since you want “proof” (like you really
                          need it)

just google Afghan pipeline.  You will see what I
(and probably you) have known about for at least ten
years.
You will find Congressional records
Notes from oil companies
the rich Caspian Sea deposits
the problems removing it
and just why the U S is spending so much in Afghanistan.
and why it is criminal to sacrifice so many lives for
the oil companies let alone tax payer money.
Many have no problem stomaching this blood shed for
oil.  Mostly the ones that don’t have to scarifice theirs,
or our troops who mostly have no idea the real reasons
why they are there,  just a presidents lies.

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 8:49 pm Link to this comment

Sorri rfidler,  kind of thoughtless of me considereing
i am trying to cut my posts for the week to just one
topic for that very reason.
  Anyway, I have about said all that I need to say
about the ineptness and deceitfulness of our lawmakers.
Nothing that I can say on TD will change their ways.

  There are one or two conservative agruements that you
make that i do agree with you on, we both agree that there
needs to be a lot of changes in our governance in order
to make this a more democratic society and a more perfect
union.  I wish you the best as I do everyone, you make
a great devils advocate.  see you on the flip. good luck!!

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By rico, suave, April 1, 2010 at 8:27 pm Link to this comment

ofer:
Put all yer thoughts into one post. Yer crowdin me inbox there.

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 5:48 pm Link to this comment

and the barbarians that descended on the corrupt

  Roman Empire where from where ??????

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 5:45 pm Link to this comment

The cradle of “C I V I L” I Z A T I O N

  is referred to from where ????????

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 5:38 pm Link to this comment

There was a reason they called them the Dark Ages
of Europe….and and the reason Cervantes wrote his
rediculous scarcastic satire coming out of the dark ages.

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 3:33 pm Link to this comment

If it is ideology,  why don’t you don ur combat boots
and help fight this new crusade ?????

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 3:29 pm Link to this comment

You being such a defender of the roulette game they call
Wall Street,  I unerdstand why you have ur perception of
history.

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 3:24 pm Link to this comment

At the time of the crusades the dummies in Europe
thought the world was flat and couldn’t count past their
fingers and toes.. While the mid-east was trading with
China.

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 3:14 pm Link to this comment

Don’t even care to prove anything to you or any one
else !!!!!!!  If you care to believe your grade school
history so be it.

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By rico, suave, April 1, 2010 at 2:00 pm Link to this comment

ofer:
You have devastated me with your rigorous proofs!

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 11:42 am Link to this comment

Every one of them !!!!

especially the crusades…....
and the creation of Isreal was ALL about money

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By rico, suave, April 1, 2010 at 6:16 am Link to this comment

ofer:
“wars have never been started out of
ideology,  but always economics.”

You mean like the Crusades?

You mean like the 1948 Arab-Israeli war?

Oh.

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 4:51 am Link to this comment

And that is just why the GUNSLINGERS OF CAPITOL HILL

have invested the lives of our young men and women

and a hell of a lot of tax payer money and a bunch of

innocent lives in Pakistan and Afghanisan for their

INTERNATIONAL INVESTOR FRIENDS , that line their pockets

to do so for them…..Ask Mr. President…...He knows
his little pep talk in the middle of the night was just
another Bush type piece of bull…!!!

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 4:36 am Link to this comment

Through history, wars have never been started out of
ideology,  but always economics.
The way they get public support is make the public believe
that it is an ideological war.
First grade stuff…..

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By ofersince72, April 1, 2010 at 4:26 am Link to this comment

No,  its about the vast natural gas and petro reserves
that russia already gave to the international investors
that are in the Caspian Sea.

Once the pipeline through Afghan, or Iran is wiped out,
they can start removing those resources.
Russia has to live up to their end of the deal.
Chechna is offering resistance, go figure !!!

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By Beltwaylaid, March 31, 2010 at 9:35 pm Link to this comment
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So I guess you’re going to have to lower the taxes on
the oligarchs and decimate a couple of countries? 
Also, I know where you can find some private
contractors…. not cheap, but what th’ hey.

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By rico, suave, March 31, 2010 at 6:13 pm Link to this comment

Thank God Russia doesn’t have to worry about the ACLU or Eric Holder. They are going to kick some serious Muslim ass. This is going to be fun to watch.

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By samosamo, March 31, 2010 at 5:36 pm Link to this comment

Jeez, I hope this isn’t the russian version of 9/11 because we are
da woorl is be in twouble.

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