Originally posted by AKIron
I suppose you think that the ruthless war with Iran, the brutal invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, and the gassing of the Kurds were just western propaganda?
War with Iran was sponsored by your government, it's not a secret. Iranian students needed revenge. Gassing Kurds - well, I have read some things about it, and it seems to me that Western point of view on that sad event is... hmmm... biased. Chemical weapons are a very dangerous thing that only insane people can use, but there are some nuances.
As for Kuwait invasion - it was a bold and open agression, and Iraq payed for it.
BTW, do you know that US played not a very pleasant role before the invasion to Kuwait? To some extent I can almost call it a provocation.
Originally posted by AKIron
There have been terrorists training camps discovered near Baghdad. I suppose you think that's all just western propaganda too.
Terrorst trainig camps? Your brave soldiers (who say that nightvision binoculars that are sold in every hunting shop here are illegal Russian imports) will call a paintball playground a "terrorist training camp". Any army training center looks like a terrorist training camp. Try to surprise me with something more impressive.
Originally posted by AKIron
Will you be like Blitz and claim that the US has planted any WMD that will be discovered?
I already said this. It is impossible to imagine comrade Bush saying "Sorry, we didn't find WMD, we are sorry, casus belli was a figment of our imagination and we go home". If there will be no WMD found in Iraq (that is how it is now) - I'll admit that your president deserves some respect. So far it looks like agressors assured that Iraq is disarmed and then were brave enough to attack helpless country.
Originally posted by AKIron
I want to ask you a serious question Boroda. Would you prefer communism over your current political/economic government/situation?
Communism? Definetly I'll prefer Communism to any other social formation. But it will never happen, at least in my lifetime. Social revolutons can never lead to Communism (as it was proved by many "experiments" in XX century), and to reach it through technological progress will take centuries. And I don't believe Stalin's thesis about "abolition of state through it's strengthening".
But I think that you (as 99% of Americans) have no idea about scientific communism or Marxist philosophy, or even basic terms used there, so I suppose that by saying "communism" you mean Soviet socialism. I don't want to live under Soviet socialism, despite of the obvious advantages in social programms (health, security, education).
Our current government is very, very far from perfect. But at least it's not guided by IMF, and does something to save our industry. Frankly speaking - now I see no alternative

What is really nessesary is to reduce the number of government administration employees, and make millions of that parasites do something instead of leeching money from economics. IMHO the best form of government for Russia is monarchy, but now it's impossible. I am against "democracy" in it's current meaning.