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Why Is Russia Threatening the U.S.?

Dec. 7, 2012 7:49am Jonathon M. Seidl

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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has strongly criticized U.S. legislation that calls for sanctions against Russian officials accused of human rights abuses and warned that it will respond in kind. A leading anti-corruption crusader, however, hailed the bill as “pro-Russian.”

The bill is primarily intended to end Cold War-era trade restrictions and was hailed by U.S. businesses worried about falling behind in the race to win shares of Russia’s more open market, but its human rights part has outraged the Kremlin.

The measure, dubbed the Magnitsky act, is named for Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was arrested by officials he accused of a $230-million tax fraud. He was severely beaten, repeatedly denied medical treatment and died after almost a year in jail in 2009. Russian rights groups accused the Kremlin of failing to prosecute those responsible, while independent media claimed that such tax frauds are widespread.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry responded to the U.S. Senate vote late Thursday by calling it a “show in the theater of the absurd.” It warned that Russia will respond to the new legislation in kind, adding that the U.S. will have to take the blame for the worsening of U.S.-Russian ties.

“Probably people in Washington forgot what year it is and are thinking that the Cold War isn’t over yet,” the ministry said in a statement adding that “it’s weird and strange to hear human rights-related complaints against us from the politicians of a country where torture and abductions of people all over the world were legitimized in the 21st century.”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russian media that “we will ban entry (to Russia) to Americans that are in fact guilty of violating human rights” in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and other nations. Speaking in Dublin late Thursday after a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, he reportedly said that he informed her about the possible bans.

Russia’s leading anti-corruption whistleblower and opposition leader Alexei Navalny wrote in his blog Friday that “the Magnitsky act is absolutely pro-Russian. It is aimed at scoundrels that stole 5.4 billion rubles, laundered it abroad and then tortured and killed a Russian citizen.”

Sergei Alexashenko, an economist who was a deputy chief of Russia’s Central Bank, said on Ekho Moskvy radio late Thursday that despite the angry official rhetoric, the Kremlin would be unlikely to take strong anti-U.S. action for fear of causing an even bigger strain in relations

The Russian Foreign Ministry also claimed that the new legislation is driven by a “revengeful desire to settle scores” with Russia for its stance on international issues.

Russia and the United States have clashed on Syria, with Washington accusing Moscow of propping up Bashar Assad’s regime despite its bloody crackdown on an uprising that began in March 2011. According to anti-government activists, more than 36,000 Syrians have been killed.

Russia and China have used their veto power at the United Nations Security Council three times already to block sanctions against Assad’s government. Moscow also has continued to ship weapons to Assad, shrugging off Western protests.

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ms.sue
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:56am
aww.pres. obam should go give them a big hug.maybe our hippie congress could go too and hand out tie dyed t shirts and love beads.

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- December7
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:37pm
  They are threatening because President Obama now has more flexibility. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 5:37pm
  Remember when Romney said Russia was one of our biggest threats and Obama and the “chosen people” controlled Marxist Media laughed at him and said this isn’t 1982 anymore. Remember? Looks like Romney wasn’t so far off. Well, we all voted for Obama as the Juden Marxist Media wanted us to, so you get what you deserve.
  
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kindling
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:07am
This is sort of a Russian version of Obama’s Benghazi. Obama was just able to get rid of his by letting the enemy do it for him. Both have tried to sweep the deed away. God sees all and that is my consolation.
Remember Benghazi and remember Sergei Magnistky!

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noslave
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:50am
the bottom line our flexible pres,russia and china,along with the muslem bros,planned ruleing the world as one,assads chemical weapons will be used on isriel more likely??our communist pres will stand by and watch like in bengazi,and will get a reward from putin??the other laugh is hillary telling the syrians to all get along??(5 groups?)she cant even make democrats/liberals get along with republican/conservatives,go back to mr splort.

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barber2
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:42am
All of this proves how ineffective the UN really is and why Bush got tired of waiting. We had better hope that the Islamic wackos in Iran/ Pakistan , etc., do not get hold of a nuclear weapon since the Obama Crowd actually thinks that the UN, which allows Iran / Syria, etc. to be on the Human Rights Committee, can actually prevent them from using them. The UN was a nice idea but it is ineffective in dealing with really dangerous wackos. Money spent ? Returns gained ?

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:52am
  Take care of those who threaten you. Don’t make up convoluted stories about how they might threaten you. Stay out of other people’s affairs. When you don’t, you are the problem, and make things worse.
  
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- doomytram
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:54am
  Obozo and his minions were laughing and cackling about how Russia is an ally and Al Qaeda is the only enemy. Romney was cautious about Russia, but Ole Obozo was just a cackling about Al Qaeda. What about Benghazi?
  
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The_Jerk
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:31am
What nation is more involved in violating the sovereign borders of other nations, Russia or America? Truth is, it’s America. We’ve lost our way. We’re about to do it again in Syria.

Are American lives or property at risk in Syria? No. Is American sovereign territory being invaded, in Syria, not Texas? No. Then stay out and mind your own business.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:47am
  Jerk: What is your opinion of the Europeans who allowed the Germans to annihilate the European Jews, Catholics, handicapped, gypsies, mentally deficient ? Were they morally fine since it did not have anything to do with them – if they did not fall into one of those categories ? How about when the “rebels” attacked the US embassy grounds/ compound in Libya ..ok to let them ? Just curious as to where you draw the moral line in this.
  
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- b2smooth
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:52am
  I agree with you. Leave Syria to the Syrians we have our own problems here at home.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:00am
  Barber2, read what I said, not what you wish I said. There was a war going on when Hitler committed those acts. Those nations had security risks. They took action.
  
  Second, stop using the Holocaust industry in order to make your points. Fact is, Jews declared war on Germany in 1933. They fed the fires of their demise. Fact is, they were as we are now; getting involved in the domestic affairs of another nation. The very sad fact is, our educational system never presents the whole truth.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:55am
  JERK : you lost me on the ” Jews declared war on Germany in 1933.” That is absolute bunk. Hogwash. Lies. I don’t have a problem with ” staying out of another country’s business”..up to a point. We tried doing that prior to WWII , but the Japanese brought it to us at Pearl Harbor and we almost LOST all of our Navy and many American lives. I really wanted to have a moral discussion with you, but your comments on the Jews shows me that is impossible. The Islamic fanatics and our ” target the rich ” Democrats ( a mild form of it ) share the scapegoating and the hatred which fueled Hitler’s consolidation of power. They are all sick, twisted, evil and dangerous. Hate is never a permissible nor a wise foundation for any movement. Nor is Targeting a segment of a society.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:23am
  Barber2, then ask those Jews who were there.
  http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/zionism/jewishwar.cfm
  
  It’s not my fault that our educational system picks and chooses its versions of reality.
  
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- christhefanatic
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 1:58pm
  The world is turning up side down….I’m agreeing with The Jerk on this one and there is now more truth in Provda then on ABC, CBS, NBC etc.
  Syria = killers killing other killers.
  
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AUsername
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:19am
So Russians PD is like LAPD.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:26am
  Rodney king got less than he deserved.
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 11:10am
  Jerks punishment is all but here. Another fact. Sure he maybe on evil side thinking silliness about hide & pee pants. Fact again, God sees who enemies want, He says they all lose.
  
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b2smooth
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:10am
I know this isn’t a popular view but maybe we shouldn’t be demonizing Assad. He is the ruler of a nation that is under attack by radicals using terrorist tactics. His response has been brutal but he is in the position that the US and Israel find themselves in a lot. He is fighting a war against a group that hides among civilians and then cries when innocent people are killed. I am in no way endorsing his behavior but I am not sure we should support the radicals who are trying to seize power either.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:32am
  B2: I agree with you. The so-called ” revolutionaries” have set the tone for allowing any group to over-throw a government. How about in America ? Suppose the Chicago radicals decide that we do not need to have representative form of government ? Suppose they turn the OWS crowd loose to “change” capitalism? A healthy respect for law and order is important. For our government to give arms to mysterious “rebels” today ( given the total duplicity of the burka wearing suicide bomber/ civilian soldier crowd ) is appalling.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:14am
  B2smooth, very astute point.
  
  Look, destabilizing the Middle East was a plan written by Jewish American neocons back in 1996. They hid nothing. They wrote a strategic study that has since been used as the guide. Not letting a good crisis go to waste, they implemented their strategy for Israel in 2003. It was convoluted, but they used 9/11 to invade Iraq, a nation that had nothing to do with 9/11.
  
  How did they do all of that? Those authors, of the 1996 strategy for Israel, were all placed into the Bush administration by former JINSA adviser Dick Cheney. The rest is history, with many American lives wasted and trillions of our dollars squandered. The study: “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.
  
  http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm
  
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PaulHausser
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:07am
You mean why is the US threatening Russia. Oh that is right Nationalism is bad in all other countries but Israel.

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cdn1979
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:56am
a little fear mongering is always a good day to start my morning. now, queue the right wing nut jobs with the expected insane comments so i can enjoy my coffee and my bagel.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:52am
  Yes. And I always like to start my day with a few radical Lefty smears , arrogance, and disrespectful comments ….
  
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- TheePolitinator
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:48am
  Perhaps you will have a bad incident while eating said bagel.
  
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toomuchgovt
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:52am
“I’ll have more flexibility after the election” Barack Obama

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- kat747
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:05pm
  Andf you can just imagine what the definition of the word “flexibility” is when said by Barry.
  Let’s see, Clinton gave away satellite secrets to the Chinese. Perhaps “flexibility” means
  giving away the passward to the IRS’s savings account.
  
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ares338
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:43am
The more things change the more they remain the same and Russia is still our enemy. Although they say they have a free market economy they are the same lovely country that was oppressing people since the revolution. The only difference is now we are more like them. They haven’t changed…..WE HAVE!

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- IKW
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:30am
  I agree, we have changed much more into a socialist state than a free country and Russia certainly has a point…we do have the Patriot Act and NDAA and a host of other freedom strangling government bureaus managed by the Executive Branch to contend with that keep us controlled instead of free. Our entire government has seized our freedom for their power.
  
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term limits for congress
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:43am
I suppose the Rooskies have forgotten that Dear Leader won a Nobel Peace Prize and has already healed the world.

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- chucksue351
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:00am
  and he has lowered the ocean levels so much a whale has beached off of malibu
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:38am
I don’t plan on going to Russia anytime soon, it would be nice if they would stop building weapons so we can all stop wasting money on arms?

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:28am
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Woopie we’re all gonna die………………

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- Jenny Lind
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:14am
  Too much or too little coffee, Spank? Much to early for the end of the world, I have a house to clean, cookis to bake, errands to run…………………………
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:49am
  Jenny: Spank needs some chocolate chip cookies…
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:27am
The measure, dubbed the Magnitsky act, is named for Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was arrested by officials he accused of a $230-million tax fraud. He was severely beaten, repeatedly denied medical treatment and died after almost a year in jail in 2009.

I can see that happening here in the fundamentally transformed Amerika,the ‘ONE’ has a political enemy arrested for tax fraud has him severely beaten,refused medical care and dies,sounds like the revenge he spoke about.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:34am
  PRO: So far, the “ONE” and his fellow Democrats just use character assassination in their Lap Dog media. Target. Freeze. Isolate. Destroy. Been doing that for years, but the Chicago radicals have fine-tuned this into an art !
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:41am
  That is only the beginning, considering the ‘unlimited detention w/o due process’ order and so forth that he has at his fingertips. Given the way his narcissism and insanity is growing ever more rapidly, I feel the first bloodbath is not all that far off.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:45am
  Yes they have but with the way our civil liberties have been stripped from us it’s just natural for government to want to gain more power and control and that could lead to what I described.
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:49am
  SNOW Sadly I think we’ll see that happening here because this regime simply has too much power and control over us. Patriot act NDAA drones over the continental US,Barrys kill list,every bit of it is unconstitutional yet they still have these ‘laws’ on the books,Amerika is here and the republic is dead.
  
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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:27am
I guess this means sanctions against Putin because he murdered Alexander Litvinenko with an isotope cocktail and many journalists. I assume that would be considered a human rights violation but maybe Putin has been granted a waver by the commie in chief.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:38am
  BEHIND: not to mention all of the Russian journalists who have been assassinated in elevators, etc. The radical KJB types do NOT like opposition. Our American radicals only use character assassination in the media…so far.
  
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DadRocked
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:21am
“Why Is Russia Threatening the U.S.?”

Because, in this day in age of where America is and where it certainly appears to be heading…
Why is Russia threatening the U.S.? Because they can…

Come on America, quit playing pocket pool and get it together…
Give us at least an ounce of optimism…

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RightUnite
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:19am
Whaaaat??? No more love for the “Chosen One”?? Oh the haters be hatin…..

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BehindBlueEyes
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:15am
I wonder if Putin was granted the same power Obama has to kill its own citizens at home and abroad.

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sparkyrules
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:09am
Screw you Putin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlAHMwSExM4

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- raderby
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:16am
  I commend, and raise that screw. Putin: once KBG, always KBG.
  
  They still believe Khrushchev’s “we will bury you” crapola. And while, so far, Putin has not pounded his shoe on the desk at the UN – nothing too much has changed except that Russia and China are using free market ideas to grow their economies,while our schmucky creepo in the WH is killing our econ with marxist BS.
  
  World is really upside down, huh?
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:22am
  Raderby.
  I’m not the nice everybody thinks I am.When the STF,Sparky will rock&roll.
  
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- FlatEarther
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 10:05am
  I always wondered how we know that north is the top of our planet… Is the world really upside down?
  
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barber2
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:07am
What ? But I thought Obama, with his Chicago 60s radical ties , promised he could be ” more flexible ” to Putin after the election ?? S hocked. Does that mean Russia is going under the bus too ?! Our Democrat Chicago radicals’ ethics have sure “changed” the world view of America : not only are our allies confused, but our enemies must be stumped ! That could be the Obama Doctrine : Keep EVERYONE guessing what you’ll do next… ( including the average, taxpaying American citizen )

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big-jeff
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:05am
Our entire government is a show in the theater of the absurd.

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- barber2
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:09am
  Yes. And the MSM is the stage upon which it performs . Scripts and teleprompter 24/ 7.
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:23am
  If you accept the opinions from the likes of Mr. Beck then recent events are not going to make sense.
  
  Most of what Mr. Beck says is made up and simply not true.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:36am
  Mary is running the Trash Beck routine which we have come to know and expect from our Chicago radical supporters…
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:53am
  Mary, Cite examples of Becks made up stories,you act as if Beck just dreams up stories to tell,you’re just a nut job.
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:08am
  The latest one I was reading was a whole show Mr. Beck did on how Islamic terrorists were planning to take over this country’s schools, then wait for the parents to come pick up their children and kill the parents and children at the same time.
  
  But a more well known lie is that the President is a Marxist/ Commnunist.
  
  The president wants to destroy America.
  
  The military didn’t mobilize during the attack in Libya in September of this year, when they were only an hour away.
  
  Just most everything that comes out of his mouth isn’t true, really.
  
  Name the issue and I can find a lie Mr. Beck said.
  
  Mr. Beck absolves himself by telling his listeners not to listen to what he says but to listen to the spirit of what he is saying. In other words, just pretend Mr. Beck is confirming your beliefs.
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:35am
  MaryBeth loves The Blaze!
  
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- barber2
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:37am
  Mary : Prove that Obama does not want to destroy American capitalism. That the military did not mobilize during the attack when they were only an hour away . That almost everything ” that comes out of his mouth ” ( Beck ) isn’t true . You just spout a bunch of character assassinating comments in the media and expect that the printing makes them true. Baloney.
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 9:39am
  Open up MaryBeth.I’m glad your here.I get tired of the same ********.:)
  
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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 12:59pm
  Mary your passive aggressive attitude isn’t appreciated so stow it away,you’re an Obamazombie drone that can’t think for yourself.
  
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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:04am
the ministry ( Russia ) said in a statement adding that “it’s weird and strange to hear human rights-related complaints against us from the politicians of a country where torture and abductions of people all over the world were legitimized in the 21st century.”……….In the mean time Russia stands behind the Syrian Regime while they have Slaughtered 40,000 of their own and may now be preparing to use Chemical Weapons on the rest of them.
Yes, the United Socialist States of America has nothing but lying, corrupt Politicians, That is true. but, so far, they have not turned our own Military on us like Syria has. Russia has nothing to say to US about Human Rights.

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poorrichard09
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 7:59am
Why is Russia threatening the US? Because they know we have a cowardly prez who will go along with them-after all, the “message vas transmitted to Vladimir.”

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- barber2
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:10am
  POOR: Isn’t it odd that our Chicago radical president has economic policies probably to the Left of Putin ?!
  
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- marybethelizabeth
  Posted on December 7, 2012 at 8:25am
  The message transmitted to Vladimir is economic sanctions.
  
  Mr. Beck has misled you.
  
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sparkyrules
Posted on December 7, 2012 at 7:54am
“Probably people in Washington forgot what year it is and are thinking that the Cold War isn’t over yet,”

Red Dawn is pretend.

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