Posted on 09/18/2004 12:16:08 AM PDT by pook
"The Saint's relics will be returned to Diveyevo and Russia will be restored."
They just did this, last year I think or recently. Returned the relics.
So if a North Korean research satellite, courtesy of Comrade Putin, happens to incinerate Seattle we can send the appropriate reply to him and his North Korean buddy.
Interesting, thanks.
Remember Christ's first warning regarding signs of his return was "deception" and he was talking to Christians.
Putin's comment -- that North Korea would end its missile program if other nations provided it with rocket technology for space exploration -- was expected to receive attention during the G8 summit.
The three-day summit of the world's leading industrial nations begins Friday; G8 leaders plan to meet officials from developing nations on Thursday, however, to discuss debt- and poverty-related issues.
"The country which could probably steward North Korea out of isolation, help them, if they are looking to get out of isolation, might be Russia," said former Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev.
Putin, the first Russian leader to visit North Korea, offered few details about how a program of shared technology would work, or who would finance it. He rejected a suggestion that Russia send its rockets to North Korea. He also told reporters that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il had assured him that North Korea's missile program was only used for peaceful purposes.
"The North Korean government is prepared to use exclusively the rocket technology of other nations if they provide such an opportunity for the peaceful exploration of space," Putin said.
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Putin...told reporters that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il had assured him that North Korea's missile program was only used for peaceful purposes. "The North Korean government is prepared to use exclusively the rocket technology of other nations if they provide such an opportunity for the peaceful exploration of space," Putin said.
An absolute pant load .
I wondered when the Dems would try to establish that Bush's fumbling foreign policy restarted the cold war. First salvo. Deluge coming. All for the cause.
I was thinking how well this works for the left.
A Pentagon report on weapons found in Iraq after the war revealed a staggering amount of armaments, almost all foreign-made. The report, first disclosed in a new book by one of this column's writers, Bill Gertz, reached this stark conclusion: "Foreign munitions were used against coalition forces during the war and continue to be a potential source of explosives for improvised explosive devices still being used to kill U.S. soldiers."
According to the report cited in "Treachery: How America's Friends and Foes are Secretly Arming Our Enemies," 24 nations supplied armaments to Saddam Hussein. The total amount was between 650,000 tons and 1 million tons. By contrast, the entire U.S. military arsenal is between 1.6 million and 1.8 million tons.
The big three arms suppliers were Russia (and the Soviet Union), China and France: Russia supplied 122 different types of arms and a total of nearly 13 million items; China had provided 19 different types of arms and almost 380,000 items; France had supplied 12 different armaments and more than 115,000 items.
The report was produced by the office of deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, John Shaw.
It found that Russia had violated U.N. sanctions on Iraq by selling Saddam Hussein Kornet-E antitank guided weapons. The report said that in March 2003, Kornet missiles, first developed in 1994, were fired at two U.S. Army M-1A1 Abrams tanks near Najaf, disabling them.
The report also stated that Syria purchased 500 to 1,000 Kornets from Ukraine "on behalf of Iraq"; the transfers took place in early 2003, the report said. The Ukrainians had bought the missiles from Russian manufacturers. The report concluded, "Possession of the Kornet-E violates U.N. Security Council Resolution 687," which barred arms sales to Iraq.
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An examply of Putin's Christian charity?
"...improvised explosive devices still being used to kill U.S. soldiers.
"The big three arms suppliers were Russia (and the Soviet Union), China and France: Russia supplied 122 different types of arms and a total of nearly 13 million items... That would be Putin's Russian.
"It found that Russia had violated U.N. sanctions on Iraq by selling Saddam Hussein Kornet-E antitank guided weapons. The report said that in March 2003, Kornet missiles, first developed in 1994." Charity Putin style.
"The Ukrainians had bought the missiles from Russian manufacturers. The report concluded, "Possession of the Kornet-E violates U.N. Security Council Resolution 687," which barred arms sales to Iraq." It's a shame Putin doesn't export Bibles...they would kill fewer of our people.
Ask the Serbs sometime about the fun they had with our bombs.
Putin's Christian charity...illegal arms sales to Islamic nations.
That's the best you can do in defense of Putin's illegal arms sales to Iraq...being used to kill our troops even today.
How old are you? Do you think time began in Serbia?
Who held that state together until they fell, sure wasn't the US?
Clinton intervened because nobody else would and CNN ran the pictures 24/7.
JR Nyquist was a chechen supporter and I suspect you are as well.
I am happy to sit back and see what happens, and when you are proven wrong, I'll be sure to remind you of all these doom and gloom posts of yours.
The facts are that Putin is in a bad place and Russia has lost repeatedly to a single psychopath terrorist with a huge cult following. An *elected* governor, perhaps illegally elected, looked the other way while explosives were planted that killed children and people.
Russia is filled with rampant corruption and Putin doesn't want another election, real or otherwise, to put in place another pro-chechen who will allow Beslan the second to happen. The only way he sees to stop this is to take full responsibility and a lot of control. It is exactly like what I do when I don't trust my teenagers.
Paranoia is not called for when the facts clearly show a frightened man, not a power-hungry one. Putin just realized he doesn't have time, after all, to slowly clean up the corruption left behind by Yeltsin. Because Basayev just announced his intention to do the same or worse as he did at Beslan, and asap.
As for the rest of it, you said it yourself, Russia is not our ally. But they look to be becoming Israel's and very soon. Putin doesn't owe us anything, and as I recall, some Israeli leaders have told us to butt out in the past too. Sharon doesn't seem the least bit threatened by Putin's arm sales or whatever. How can that be?
Thanks.
Gertz's book is on my must read book.
Ah yes, Klintoon, Madeline Halfbright, and CNN, a worthy team.
It never went away.
"As for the rest of it, you said it yourself, Russia is not our ally. But they look to be becoming Israel's and very soon. Putin doesn't owe us anything, and as I recall, some Israeli leaders have told us to butt out in the past too. Sharon doesn't seem the least bit threatened by Putin's arm sales or whatever. How can that be?"
You would not believe the answers if you were given them.
LOL! Not at all, I'm simply exposing Putin for the person he really is.
Bill Gertz has the facts on your beloved Putin...arms merchant of death.
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