Posted on 06/08/2004 4:59:29 PM PDT by Eurotwit
WARSAW, Poland - Lech Walesa, Poland's former president and founder of the Solidarity trade union that was instrumental in prying the country out of the Soviet bloc, said Tuesday he will attend the funeral of former President Reagan.
"There is a debt of gratitude for everything he has done, for what we have jointly achieved," Walesa told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from his home in the Baltic port city of Gdansk.
Reagan, who died Saturday at 93, was part of a stalwart group of Solidarity supporters that included former French President Francois Mitterrand and the Polish-born Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II.
Reagan's state funeral is Friday in the Washington National Cathedral
Ohhh, this is great news! I would LOVE for him to get a chance to speak, because if he did, he will remind today's socialist/communist wannabees in the US the evils of socialism/communisim and a country run by the "state." This is really wonderful news. Great boost for Bush too!
Almost the first thing Walesa did when he was elected president, was to fly to the US and on to California, to shake Reagan's hand, to thank him.
I remember a news conference when he arrived in the US, he was inviting the US to set up bases there; he said if Puerto Rico doesn't want to be a state, "we do".
So we have Thatcher, Walesa, Bush 41, Bush 43, who else?
It just warms my heart to see leaders from all over the world give tribute to OUR President Ronald Reagan. Especially, when you know there are so many traitors in this country who are just writhing in pain at the thought.
I'm not sure, but wasn't Gorbechev coming?
Gorby
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will attend the funeral of Ronald Reagan, his partner in ending decades of Cold War in the 1980s, an aide to Gorbachev said on Tuesday. Vladimir Polyakov said Gorbachev, who has close personal relations with the former U.S. president's family, would travel to Washington DC for Friday's ceremony.
LOL.....guess ole slickster will be roaming the halls of various hotels trying to waylay various foreign visitors for midnight chats.
The names were once daily fodder in the network news and the headlines - Alexander Haig, James Baker III, George Shultz, Edwin Meese, Michael Deaver, John Poindexter, Jeane Kirkpatrick.
BTTT
Super news. Walesa is a hero in his own right. This American deeply appreciates his gesture of attending RWR's funeral.
I have a feeling that the foreign leaders coming to this funeral are not the ones who secretly met with John Kerry in New York for lunch and pledged their support to him.
Brian Mulroney...
Who else? Clinton and Carter, unfortunately. But protocol dictates that they must be there.
I believe it was in Poland, that the conventional wisdom went, that the only way to get the boot of the USSR off of it's throat was to attack the United States and force her to occupy. Chew on that for a while, and realize what that really says about us, and our disinclination (word?) to Empire.
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