Did Cheney Start New Cold War With Russia?

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Russian Media Warn of New Cold War
- By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer
Friday, May 5, 2006

(05-05) 14:09 PDT MOSCOW, Russia (AP) --

Russian media on Friday described Vice President Dick Cheney's harsh criticism of Russia and President Vladimir Putin as the start of a new Cold War.

Cheney's words Thursday at a conference in Lithuania drew a comparison to Winston Churchill's famed "Iron Curtain" speech and reflected the deepening distrust between Washington and a newly assertive Kremlin.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/05/05/international/i074926D65.DTL&type=printable

[MikeNearMcChord]

1. If the idiot did start it.

This time the Russians win.

[mdmc]

2. According to the Ruskies

Yes.

[Greenpeach]

3. I remember when they were in 7th heaven...

with Russia as the "Evil Empire" and the "Communist threat" they would love to get back there again.

[ktlyon]

4. not exactly

it started when Bush threw out all our international treaties and started building bunker busters. This is just the latest bluster and blunder.

[enigma000]

5. Winston Churchill's famed "Iron Curtain" speech didn't start the Cold War

That's like saying complains about Nazi Germany started WWII

Russia is re-empowering itself again after losing the Cold War. I know some here at DU may feel the wrong side won the Cold War (sometimes I believe that myself, comrades) but that did;t happen. But the Russia of today was not the beacon of light, tolerance and peace in was under the USSR. It is a corrupt capitalist fiefdom - a fiefdom that shouldn't be supported by progressives. Just my thoughts.