Liebermann, McCain demand G8 suspend Russia

[RPankn]

Senators demand G8 suspend Russia

Saturday 19 February 2005, 1:52 Makka Time, 22:52 GMT

Russia under President Putin is said to be abusing democracy

Two influential US senators have called for Russia's suspension from the Group of Eight industrialised nations, accusing it of abusing democracy and political freedom.

Senators Joe Lieberman and John McCain on Friday introduced a Senate resolution urging President George Bush to take action to suspend Russia's G8 membership.

"In 2001, I warned of a creeping coup in Russia against the forces of democracy and market capitalism in Russia," said McCain, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, which he lost to Bush.

"Since then, Russia has actually moved backward," he said.

Summit

The Senate resolution by the two senators came ahead of a summit next Thursday between Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Bratislava.

"Mr Putin has moved to eliminate the popular election of Russia's 89 regional governors, has cracked down on independent media, continued his repression of business executives who oppose his government, and is reasserting the Kremlin's old-style central control," McCain added.

"The coup is no longer creeping - it is galloping," the Arizona senator said.

Lieberman, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination last year, said: "We must openly confront anti-democratic backsliding in Russia for the sake of all those who look to the United States as a beacon of freedom."

The G8 also includes the United States, Britain, Canada, Japan, France, Italy and Germany.


Agencies


english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D893B06C-8958-4896-A73D-E5121995F4A8.htm

[Moses]

Russia is getting in the way of the Usraeli agenda, and took back its oil resources from the Israelis.

I didn't realize the G-8 was dominated by Anglos (3/7). And Japan has become a US puppet, under BuCheney-- just another Taiwan now, to them, not an actual independent industrial nation. And Italy is just being ruled by Musolini II-- a puppet of the new Axis power-- the Usraelis. So I guess G-8 is cooked, too, as an organization of industrial nations-- just another org controlled by Usraelis. (Canada is now headed by one: Martin, and has been told by our ambassador that in foreign policy, it should take a subsidiary role to US policy-- like go down and guard the Haitians-- stuff like that).

[Moses]

Has anyone ever explained why McCain is such a rabid zionist, looking out for the Israeli interests over those of his own country? How it is he became a shill for the Kristol dynasty?