Outraged Moscow media say Cheney has restarted cold war

[deminks]

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/b2e00daa-dc9c-11da-890d-0000779e2340.html

Russia's newspapers greeted US vice-president Dick Cheney's rebuke to the Kremlin with a storm of protest yesterday - with some saying his criticism marked the dawn of a new cold war.

Most Moscow newspapers - both government-controlled and independent - reacted with alarm and indignation, reporting his comments on their front pages.

They presented them as echoing the 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri, when Sir Winston Churchill warned of an "Iron Curtain", or the 1945 Yalta conference where Europe's post-war map was drawn up.

Some suggested Mr Cheney's comments - in which he warned Moscow against using gas and oil supplies as "tools of intimidation and blackmail" and accused it of "unfairly restricting citizens' rights" - would drive Russia into the arms of China.

Attaboy, Dick. At least you old farts will know who the enemy is again.
:sarcasm:

[MadMaddie]

1. Sigh......

[marmar]

2. No surprise there...

Cheney, Rumsfailed ... all of them are Cold War relics. They'd love to restart it.

[DainBramaged]

3. Did you expect these nimrods to do anything less?

I figured the next thing he'd do is shoot himself in the foot.

[patrice]

4. It's all of those -stans - Cheney NEEDS.

[MikeNearMcChord]

5. Cheney the A**hole!

The world has decided that Cheney is the problem, and we are all screwed, blued and tattooed because of that.:grr:

[spindrifter]

6. The real reason DeadEye is

taking shots at the Russians is--are you ready for this--Condi will need to have something to do when she is replaced as Secy. of State. DeadEye remembered she had the Russian specialty, so he thought he would make sure she had something to write about in Old Academe.

[ocd liberal]

7. Let me get this straight

The conservatives I know are always talking about how their beloved Raygun ENDED the Cold War and now their beloved Cheney is going to restart it?
How do these people sleep at night?

[No New War]

8. Ever since this administration took office,

The amount of doublespeak has dropped by 38%.
:sarcasm:

[ninkasi]

10. Welcome to DU

It doesn't make sense to me, either. Nothing about this rogue regime makes sense. They are like hyenas, or vultures, feasting on rotting flesh. I despise them. They are being consumed by blood lust, and are the biggest danger our country has ever faced, because they are destroying us from within.

[keith the dem]

9. Who Cares?

A Kennedy dented a car!