Johnson, Tracy wrote:

>At last, a politician honest enough to tell his constituency to get
>scr__ed.

>http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060510-113643-2701r

In http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4757261.stm there were also these 
statements:
Mr. Putin also said Russia should follow America's suit and spend more on 
its army to be able to defend itself.

He described the US as a "fortress", saying its defence budget was "almost 
25 times that of Russia's".

He also warned that it was "premature to speak of the end of the arms race" 
in the world, saying that in fact it was "going faster" and was rising to "a 
new technological level".

Mr Putin said Russia's population had witnessed an annual decline of 700,000 
people, because of low birth rates, high mortality and migration.

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *