Bush and Putin: Two Peas In A Pod "Share Common Ground"

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CounterPunch
February 25, 2005

Conclave of the Brats
Dubya and Puty-Put Share a Medieval Castle
By KURT NIMMO

It is said Dubya sincerely enjoys the company of "Puty Put," as Bush calls the Russian leader and former KGB goon who learned a few licks in a stay-over in East Germany at the beginning of his career, more than likely picking up a few tricks from Stasi, the secret police network that used Orwell's 1984 as a playbook.

Puty Put and Dubya certainly have a lot in common. For instance, Putin's control of the media in Russia ensured his "re-election" last year, a feat repeated by Bush a few months later as the corporate media in the United States more or less gave him a blank check -- ignoring the lies and fabrications used by the Bushcons to invade Iraq while grinding John Kerry down with Swift boats and his embarrassing antiwar past -- and then refusing to air serious accusations of voter fraud and electoral malfeasance.

Puty Put is a near match for Bush and that's why they like each other. Put's military has spent a long time ravaging Chechnya, consistently engaging in violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, butchering and disappearing civilians, going all out with extrajudicial executions and torture. "According to reports, Russian forces have arbitrarily detained, tortured or killed thousands of civilians," reports Amnesty International. "Most people who are detained by Russian forces are picked up during identity checks on civilian convoys traveling from Chechnya to Ingushetia or during military raids (so-called zachistki or "clean-up" raids) on populated areas. These raids are accompanied by widespread abuses against the civilian population. Civilians, including women and children, have reportedly been abducted, subjected to rape and other forms of torture, and killed." Like Bush and his cronies, Puty Put considers the slaughter of innocent men, women, and children in Chechnya a war against terrorism.

Dubya and Puty Put are peas in a pod and certainly "share common ground," as ABC News describes it. Indeed they not only shared a medieval castle for a few hours but also share a blood-stained medieval mindset, as epitomized not only by Byzantine-like wars and crusades complete with the modern equivalent of plunder and foraging, but also a system or torture and brutality that would prompt Tomas de Torquemada, the inquisitor general of Castile and Aragon, to take copious notes.

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