Gorbachev to US: Pot, Kettle, Black
Just hours after Secretary of State and Dominatrix Condoleezza Rice showed off her language and diplomatic skills in Moscow today, Mikhail Gorbachev slammed the United States' hypocritical stance on nuclear disarmament:

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, said Wednesday the United States was hypocritical over nuclear armaments and not prepared to disarm its own weapons.

"I think Russia is ready to cooperate. Now the question is, is the United States -- which is the only remaining superpower -- is the United States ready to do this? I think not myself," Gorbachev said.

"I think the United States is sick. It suffers from the sickness, the disease of being the victor and it needs to cure itself from this disease."

He said the United States should not suggest that other countries have no need for nuclear weapons while it retains a large arsenal itself.

"They say other people don't need it, but what kind of law is this that they are advocating? It's the law of the jungle," he said.

And so we swagger around the world stage, bullying third world nations, flexing our military muscle over the dead bodies of innocent civilians, loudly proclaiming our love for democracy even as we destroy our own, and castigating Vladimir Putin for his consolidation of power while Tom DeLay threatens the judiciary at home.
- posted by TJ @ 8:38 PM