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Bush says Cold War captivity one of great wrongs
NY Times ^ | May 7, 2005 | REUTERS

Posted on 05/07/2005 3:20:28 PM PDT by neverdem

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In a recent state of the nation speech he bemoaned the demise of the Soviet Union as ``the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'' He has also said Washington should not try to export its own brand of democracy.

Stalin Gets New Statue

So much for this summit.

1 posted on 05/07/2005 3:20:29 PM PDT by neverdem
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President Bush denounced Soviet Cold War rule of eastern Europe as ``one of the greatest wrongs of history'' on Saturday in a jab at Moscow two days before celebrations of the 1945 victory over Hitler.

I'm tempted to post the "Master of the Obvious" graphic, but for many Euro-peons, and for most of the striped-pants cookie-pushers at State, this statement is NOT obvious.

More's the pity.

3 posted on 05/07/2005 3:25:45 PM PDT by Petronski (Pope Benedict XVI: A German Shepherd on the Throne of Peter)
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To: neverdem
This is payback for Putin's remarks earlier this weekend. Puck Futin.

Putin to USA: Mind Your Own Democracy

4 posted on 05/07/2005 3:27:45 PM PDT by jdm (Estoy En Una Radio Mexicana (I'm On A Mexican Radio))
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Putin insists the Red Army was a liberator, not an oppressor, of Eastern Europe.

And just to prove it they built a wall around Eastern Europe and shot anyone trying to climb that wall. Putin sounds more and more like some of our liberal politicians ...tell a lie long e'nuff and sooner or later some left-wing fruitcake is gon'na believe it.

5 posted on 05/07/2005 3:34:02 PM PDT by Luke (CPO, USCG (Ret))
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To: Luke

Of course, NPR will disagree.


6 posted on 05/07/2005 3:39:48 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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Not only NPR, the State Department will as well. They must be choking.


7 posted on 05/07/2005 3:51:36 PM PDT by Spirited (God, Bless America ) ;))
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To: neverdem

I like how Bush trashed Roosevelt for giving away a billion people in Eastern Europe to Communist rule to 'uncle joe'.


8 posted on 05/07/2005 4:00:21 PM PDT by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/charterschoolsexplained.htm)
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I just heard on the radio how Bush said FDR, the dems' icon, was partly responsible for agreeing to the outcome of the Yalta Conference. The dems must be livid.
9 posted on 05/07/2005 4:08:33 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: neverdem

The idiotic headline on AOL right now, a photo of President Bush and "He Slams Putin, Chafes Wounds . . . Bush's Trip Raises Russian Ire . . . Are Icy Relations His Fault?"

Heaven forbid we have a President who tells the truth about Soviet oppression. His speech today made up for his father's infamous "Chicken Kiev" speech in July 1991, which precipitated the abortive August 1991 coup.


10 posted on 05/07/2005 4:09:22 PM PDT by Numbers Guy
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To: Spirited; Eric in the Ozarks; Luke; neverdem; Petronski; jb6
The State Dept. is behind this - they have a long term plan to break up Russia (even supporting the Chechens) and to strengthen China. That is wjy we are getting this "bear baiting".

A geostrategy for Eurasia by Zbigniew Brzezinski (America should break up Russia - strengthen China)

They want to break up Russia so the "West" (Euro-American-Germany) to be able to have access and outright ownership of Russia's vast natural resources without the Kremlin's interference and they want to strengthen and keep China whole so that the globalist economy can have access to stable Chinese manufacturing structure and emerging Chinese market of one billion plus souls (or so they hope).

That is why Bush is doing the bear baiting and ignoring the Jewish death tolls in the Baltics by avoiding the subject of their Nazi collaborationist past which taints Baltic claims of being victims somewhat. They were only enthusiastic at killing Jews for the Nazis.

PS: No statue of Stalin has gone up in Russia - it is a distorted story by neocon influenced press - it is a statue of all three allied leaders - Stalin - Roosevelt and Churchill and it was rejected - it will end up at some park in Volvograd.

We are watching a great manipulation of the news for foreign policy purposes - again.

PPS: Regarding PUTIN TO USA: MIND YOUR OWN DEMOCRACY Putin has read the Federalist Papers!! And taken the advice of George Washington to heart!

11 posted on 05/07/2005 4:11:16 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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Volvograd=Volgograd


12 posted on 05/07/2005 4:12:36 PM PDT by Destro (Know your enemy! Help fight Islamic terrorism by visiting johnathangaltfilms.com and jihadwatch.org)
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To: neverdem

Okay, but I have yet to hear anyone put forth a practical alternative given the facts as they existed at the time, and "turn Patton loose" doesn't count. The Russians already had their armies in Eastern Europe and wee were not going to try to kick them out in the aftermath of Germany's defeat. Any president who tried something like that would have been impeached immediately.

Our troops in Europe wanted nothing else but to go home. The fact that some of them were going to have to go to the Pacific didn't sit well with them or their families; A shooting war with the Russians just wasn't going to happen.

What happened to the Eastern Europeans sucks. But history is full of such tragedies.


13 posted on 05/07/2005 4:17:01 PM PDT by kms61
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A radioactive crater in the middle of Red Square might have had a most positive effect in keeping Eastern Europe free. There has to be a special circle of Hell for Stalin, FDR and Truman.

Namsman sends.


15 posted on 05/07/2005 4:35:01 PM PDT by namsman
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To: Petronski

It is sad.


16 posted on 05/07/2005 4:55:06 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: traviskicks

That's going to really frost the MSM.


17 posted on 05/07/2005 4:58:38 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: neverdem

Let them try to refute it.


18 posted on 05/07/2005 4:59:18 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: ms_68

Poland was in a tough spot in 1939.


19 posted on 05/07/2005 5:01:07 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: neverdem

No doubt the President's comments today will rouse the treasonous Bed Wetters at CBS, NPR, NYT, etc, but today is as good a day as any for conservatives to publicly hold the Rat Bastard Left to account for its historically immoral acquiescence at Yalta.

President Bush's remarks should serve as the starting point for instilling truth into our childrens' history books about this despicable act of moral and political cowardice, a betrayal engineered by a socialist President and, as Joe McCarthy so presciently pointed out, by a Communist-infested party that seldom misses an opportunity to sell out our national interests to foreign enemies (think Clinton and China.)

I can only hope that this is the beginning of a drive to hold accountable the Rats who enjoyed the benefits of a five-decade partnership with the Communist tyrants who murdered millions of innocents and enslaved hundreds of millions.

Go W, go!!


20 posted on 05/07/2005 5:03:45 PM PDT by MaryInSacto
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