Posted on 04/02/2006 4:06:09 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Washington, Apr 02: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who triggered the demise of the Soviet Union's Communist empire, said in an interview published today that the United States was "intoxicated" by its power and should not impose its will on others.
"This talk of pre-emptive strikes, of ignoring the UN Security Council and international legal obligations -- all this is leading toward a dark night," Gorbachev told time magazine.
"I think some people may be pushing President Bush in the wrong direction," he said of the us leader.
"America is intoxicated by its position as the world's only superpower. It wants to impose its will.
"But America needs to get over that. It has responsibilities as well as power. I say this as a good friend of America," said Gorbachev, who considered his US contemporary, President Ronald Reagan, a friend as well, and attended his funeral.
The former Soviet President, 75, was in the United States last week to promote his book on the history of his government's reforms.
Better that than vodka.
BULL %$#&
Gorbo: intoxicated by loserness.
Has he ever apologized for the U.S.S.R.'s brutal treatment of the Afghan people under his watch?
Gorbachev `jealous' of US power: AmishDude.
Seems like Gorby's got a touch of dimentia, too.
Mikhail Who?
Shaadup, and wipe that grape jelly off your dome.
""America is intoxicated by its position as the world's only superpower. It wants to impose its will."
- The only thing trying to impose its will is that giant shit stain on his head.
On the contrary, we're "intoxicated" with ignoring the dolt, Gorbachev.
Someone tell the communist sonuvabitch, that Americans are simply DETERMINED to survive and thrive....
If that requires killing every militant Islamist in the world ---- so be it...
Semper Fi
Here's an idea Gorby. Quit funding and supplying our ENEMIES!
Pot: Calling kettle:
US 'intoxicated' by power: said Gorbachev, who was simply intoxicated...
I guess repeating this line is the Dem talking point that Gorby must follow along with. No One will be expected to explain it through and our ill informed electorate will take it as it is.
""America is intoxicated by its position as the world's only superpower. It wants to impose its will."
This man is the biggest freaking dufus.
Tell me something, if america was drunk with power with would have nuked everyone of our enemies, and made slaves of the rest that didnt piss us off.
We kind of muddle through life and have enormous success and we don't exploit 1/10 of 1% of the power we hold. It pisses people like gorby and the french off because if they had 1/2 the power we have, the world would be a ugly place.
We dont act like a super power like they would, we appear as country bumkins not knowing the power we hold. And you know what that is fine for most americans, and that is what pisses people that crave that kind of power off the most.
His own people hate him for presiding over the downfall of the USSR (also known as the Evil Empire, thanks be to Ronaldus Magnus). Gorby Glasnost has nowhere else to go but into the comforting arms of the Harvard faculty club lounge.
Otherwise, who cares what this hasbeen loser thinks?
Feh. Nuke the bastard. (Hic!)
Mikhail Sergeyevich dizzy with self-importance.
Actually, Gorby, the U.S. is intoxicated by DRUGS...
Much of which is provided by the Mexican Drug Cartels(Government).. probably in league with the suppliers which are the worlds terrorist organizations..
No problem the Three Amigos will deal with it.. (Vincente, Boosh, and Harper)..
Nuff said.
WTF is that?!?!
Hey Gorby, you a$$hole - we're mean drunks.
Can we kick him out of the San Francisco presidio yet?
Here's a guy who got his head handed to him and he's done nothing since but bitch about everyone and everything else.
The former Soviet President, 75, was in the United States last week to promote his book...
Hes turned into quite the capitalist.
Think it coincidence that America's predominant leaders chose to live in relative isolation away from the masses? Reagan and Jefferson even preferred the sanctuary of a mountain top.
Could you blame them!
Gorby and Jimme - SHUT UP and go away!
''Today I can say that a lot of time has been wasted,''
What about the 100 million lives wasted by the Kremlin?
''Today I can say that a lot of time has been wasted,''
What about the 100 million lives wasted by the Kremlin?
''Today I can say that a lot of time has been wasted,''
What about the 100 million lives wasted by the Kremlin?
The former Soviet President, 75, was in the United States last week to promote his book...
Why I Have A Map Of Vietnam On My Forehead
by Mikhail Gorbachev
And the party's just started!
:)
There were more than a few Soviet leaders in between Kruschev and Gorbachev.
He may not know the front from the back of a Stetson,
but he never took his shoe off.
Gorby depressed by utter failure????????????????????????
<< .... who triggered the demise of the Soviet Union's [Evil] empire .... >>
Just as I caused the sun to set on once great britain's evil empire.
Oh ... I forgot. That wasn't me.
[That was Snatcher Thatcher, her cabinet and her fellow terrorist-appeasing supporting and facilitating antisemite apologist, wittle woosey Qwistofur 'Hong Kong' Patten]
Per Ardua ad Astra, Rear Gunner.
The former leader of a country that oppressed its own people and the people of Eastern Europe for decades is going to lecture us? That's great. Why it would be reported is an example of what is wrong with journalism.
Gorbachev spoke to reporters yesterday before giving a speech at the Carnegie Abbey Club in Portsmouth.
The former Communist Party chief and leader of the U-S-S-R says hard-liners in both countries are erasing the goodwill developed since Gorbachev effectively dismantled the Soviet Union. He says the U-S must look at Russia as a partner rather than a failed superpower.
Gorbachev didn’t address U-S policy in Iraq, but he said Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was a “creature of the West.”
"Russia will never agree to be a dependent," he said. "Through history, no one was able to bring Russia to its knees."
At 75, Gorbachev Laments U.S. 'Arrogance' - "Ending the Cold War was given as a gift... The winner's complex is worse than an inferiority complex, because it's harder to cure."
Gorbachev blasts US, urges patience on Hamas - "There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status... As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse."
Russia also won Cold War, says Gorbachev - ("Perestroika won")
Gorbachev: U.S. needs perestroika - "The world needs a new vision, new policies ...I support the movement that says a different world is possible ...The world will not accept dictatorship or domination. We need dialogue."
US bid to dominate invites disaster - Gorbachev
Gorbachev Condemns 'Illegal' Iraq War - "I regard the invasion of Iraq as undermining international law and undermining democracy because millions of people spoke out against it."
Maybe Gorby, Algore and sKerry can go on a worldwide "Failures who suffer from the delusion that their opinions somehow matter" tour.
"America is intoxicated by its position as the world's only superpower. It wants to impose its will."
Yes. Our will is to teach those who attacked us on 911 a lesson. What's wrong with that?
Excerpted from New Internationalist 343 March 2002
Vladimir Putin
Putin addressing a baffled audience at
Rice University, Texas, November 2001.
'Ladies and gentlemen, as we know, Texas cowboys have the heels of their high boots slanted inward to make sure that, when they work at the ranch, their backs don’t get stained by mud. And the same applies to international relations. Cleanliness is a good symbol.’
This is what a leader sounds like when they are 'intoxicated' by power.
Excerpted from TONY WOOD PUTIN'S COLONIAL WAR
One of the most disturbing pronouncements in this idiom comes from Putin himself, announcing on Russian television in early November 1999 that he would ‘corner the bandits in the shithouse and wipe them out.’
I think he's pissed that he lost that Pizza Hut contract.
Translation: Gorby is crying in his vodka.
He thought he would be able to revive on the wave of the Kyoto effort to create collective property mandates but has failed.
The Gorby was only reacting to reagan. He thought he would have another carter on his hands.
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