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I don't trust these cats.

That was my first thought...but then that's what I said when I heard about the
Berlin Wall and the USSR breaking up!

I think this son must have been the one on "Sixty Minutes II" a few weeks ago,
interviewed by Vickie Maybree (sp?). He seemed to be ready to nudge Pops in the right
direction and was philosphical about the bombing of his family compound during
the Reagan years ("We were at war...").
And seeing the open doors of their chemical/nuclear plants and a bunch of
their nuclear infrastructure now sitting at Oak Ridge in Tennessee...
maybe things are going the right way.

Hey, Khaddafi is a politician..."when they feel the heat, they see the light."

[Qwinn]

"That was my first thought...but then that's what I said when I heard about the Berlin Wall and the USSR breaking up!"

My opinion? You were right the first time.

If you thought it was patently ridiculous that the entire collective Communist leadership would just give up power one day without a single shot fired, that's cause it kinda was patently ridiculous. And call me crazy, but I still don't believe it.

Personally? I think it was the biggest scam in world history, and the plain purpose of it was to get the U.S. to relax it's guard and disarm.

Everyone knows that the old guard is the mafia now, and the guy in charge was in the KGB. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

If Gore had won, we would've disarmed more and we'd be dealing with USSR II already.

The Communists will retake and remake the Empire any time they want, on the drop of a dime. They lost no resources at all (since not a shot was fired) and they've absorbed tons of foreign investment on top of it. They're already playing the propaganda mill again over there, working the people up to get "nostalgic" for the old Soviet glory days. We'll see an openly communist Russia again in our lifetimes, have -no- doubt.

Qwinn