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Congressman Dana Rohrabacher: â€œSwindlers and ravens flown to Russia and robbed its natural resourcesâ€

13 June 2008 11:35 (UTC +04:00)

Instead of this, swindlers and ravens flew to Russia and robbed its natural resourcesâ€, said Republican Dana Rohrabacher, deputy chairman of the committee on human rights and international organizations of the US House of Representatives during the Houseâ€™s hearings, APA quotes Russian RIA-Novosti. Rohrabacher, former US President Ronald Reaganâ€™s speechwriter said that Russia was not USSR. â€œI was one of the biggest phantoms of USSR during the Cold War period. I attended military actions against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan. I wrote the Reaganâ€™s strongest messages to USSR over the seven years. Now we should realize that USSR lost and Russia is instead of itâ€. Rohrabacher said US post-Soviet policy forced Russia to establish nuclear cooperation with Iran to get material revenues. â€œWe and European Union didnâ€™t open our markets and pushed Russia to the edge of lots. In that time Russia went to deal with Iran. I told that letâ€™s offer Russia to build nuclear power stations in Turkey and Malaysia, but Clintonâ€™s and Bushâ€™s administrations preferred to use whip. We punished the country which faced with the economic problems instead of giving it alternative opportunitiesâ€.