Putin: “UN decision was like a medieval call to crusade”

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/decision+like+medieval+call+crusade+says+Putin/4479155/story.html

Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, criticized the air strikes on Libya Monday and likened the United Nations resolution that allowed the attacks to “a medieval call to crusade”.

His comments led to a rebuke from Dmitry Medvedev, the president, who said it was unacceptable to make such historical comparisons and warned that such remarks risked stirring up more trouble.

“The resolution is defective and flawed,” Mr Putin told workers at a Russian ballistic missile factory. “I am concerned by the ease with which decisions to use force are taken in international affairs. This is becoming a persistent tendency in U.S. policy.

“During the Clinton era they bombed Belgrade; Bush sent forces into Afghanistan and then under an invented, false pretext they sent forces into Iraq. Now it is Libya’s turn, under the pretext of protecting the peaceful population. But in air strikes it is precisely the civilian population that gets killed. Where is the logic and the conscience?”

Mr Medvedev described the remarks as “unacceptable”. “Under no circumstances is it acceptable to use expressions which essentially lead to a clash of civilisations. Such as [talking of] a ‘crusade’ and so on,” he said. “Otherwise every-thing could end up much worse compared to what is going on now. Everyone should remember that.”

Russia, which has arms and oil deals with Libya totalling billions of dollars, decided not to exercise its veto in Thursday’s vote at the UN and abstained. It sacked its ambassador to Libya for his staunch support of Colonel Moammar Gadhafi.

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note the language he is using..the same language gaddafi is using..the same words we have talked about many many times..the crusaders..hes actually on the money old vlad..

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