Brad:

Have you read any of the accounts of the survivors?

These people did not want to negotiate, they wanted to die. At least that is what they said.

Now I have never been in favor of the Kremlin’s tactics in Chechnya but this is terrorism plain and simple and dragging the likes of AlQaida into this will not help anyone.

They laughed at the children when they wimpered and made them drink their own urine. So far as I know the women and children they deliberately targeted for death had nothing whatsoever to do with politcs in Chechnya and if these terrorists are in any way indicative of the kind of people that Putin is dealing with there then I hope we give them help and assistance.

Becuase this was evil and no amount of rationalizing and displacing blame can change that.