The Cold War was the era I grew up in. Russia was bullying the world with a Nuclear threat that made life an every day scary event. Today, our leaders acted as though this peril from Russia was a thing of the past (President Bush’s June 2001 declaration that he had looked Russia’s Vladimir Putin in the eye and “was able to get a sense of his soul”)

So with this threat supposedly long gone the Bush administration became solely occupied with a tiny Middle East country who posed no endangerment and was fully contained by sanctions. But still decided to declare war upon it. While the Real Threat quietly menaced in the background and now Russia is using their nuclear arsenal to bully humanity once again. (How come Bush didn't see that when he looked into The Putin Eye?)

COLD WAR - The global superpower stand-off that brought the world to the brink of destruction.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/soviet_stand_01.shtml

See video of Bush, strongly suggesting that Iraqi style democracy is optimal for Russia. Putin rebuffs el presidente and the press laughs with Putin:
http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-cold-war-back-or-did-it-ever-leave.html