So they can withstand the torture if captured...?

Holy shit, that changes everything. My bad!

Tyranical, what you told me is that the Russians tortured and killed rebels from a tape raping a 13-year-old-girl. I fully support and endorse that.

I however do not support people being tortured unless they have a reason to be tortured.

You may want to give me other examples, because this one is working more towards my point that yours.

Well, you can read the original article from the first post.

His comment was dodgey since he indicted the entire country and not just the government.  But the Russian government is pretty bad.

In some places it's human rights are ranked below the middle east!

http://humanrightshouse.org/Articles/9574.html

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/7eb8a04519db9206db978db57c5930e1.htm

http://www.amnestyusa.org/all-countries/russian-federation/page.do?id=1011228

Why is the US the only country that ever gets any criticism for their actions while these Russian animals torture gleefully and receive little condemnation from the outside world for doing so?

That's over the top. Russia is completely pathetic when it comes to human rights but... it never has been. I mean from the Tsars to the commies, Russia has long been a powerful country built on people with weak rights....

By the way, the reason Russia pushed further into Georgia is to prevent Georgian incursions.. the same reason goaleys usually aren't right in front of the net but a little forward. The stories of Russians promoting rebels may/may not be true, don't take it for granted. The georgian army was shelling towns..killing civilians.... And the Russians, whatever their motives, and im sure they were self-interest, put a stop to the chaos fast.

     Still, you turn on any news channel, and you don't hear criticism of the Russians for conducting medieval type torture on captives or of the chinese winning the gold medal in women's gymnastics with under age atheletes, but the US gives someone a bit too much water or humiliates prisoners just a bit by posing a female soldier with some prisoners in some dominatrix like poses, and all you hear from several other nations is the US is so evil.

Why don't we break there bones, or beat the hell out of them then?

You wanna know why? Because no other country poses as being so valiant. When have you ever heard Russia deride any torture or anything like that, or even give the pretense they are so equal? What about China? Now, think of how many times people in the US have acted high and mighty about these issues. Baically you all are hipocrites, either stop acting all high and mighty, or don't whine and bitch about it when YOUR own standard is applied to you by others.