Posted on 02/13/2007 6:16:39 AM PST by RichardMoore
Does FR allow New American stuff to be posted here?
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(Ras)Putin is a very dangerous man.
I agree. But he ain't as smart as he thinks he is.
The truth will set you free. If we are actually fighting the Russians in this "war on terror," then I think it sheds a whole new light on support for the war in Iraq. I realize that The New American does not support the war but the obvious conclusion here is that we have much more at stake in Iraq than the public is aware of. So I think that this is important to know, no matter where it comes from.
I was just asking if FR allowed it, not the it does not have some legit points. The Birchers can be right sometimes. LOL
I forgot to mention that Mr.Prodi, the current Prime Minister of Italy, was the President of the European Commission from Sept. 1999 through Nov 2004, one of the most critical periods of the European Union, which included the launching of the euro currency, expansion of the EU to include former communist countries, and the drafting of the EU constitution.
Well, I don't know what is censored here other than abusive language. I do think that we "conservatives" should stop talking in circles and wake up.
Who is talking in circles? Does Russia do some shady things? Yep. Is Russia an ally? No. Does every conservative understand this? Yes.
Same can be said for China.
Putin is part of a larger picture which involves Lenin's plan to fool the West into thinking that the Soviets have gone capitalist. When in fact they are just out to get our money, which they did, and then tighten the screw again, which they are now. Putin has nationalized 75% of the businesses in Russia. LUKoil is now in our country and is run by an FSB/KGB crony of Putin's. Don't buy gas there.
Putin can try as he might, but the genie is out of the bottle. There is no going back to being the USSR.
Well, that sounds strong but Mr Putin is following Gorbachev's lead from his 1986 book, Perestroika, in which Gorby quoted Lenin saying that the Soviets should pretend to be capitalists in order to get some needed money from the "Main Adversary"( that being the USA). So whether we like it or not, whether is fits our emotional attachment to Reagan's defeat of the Evil Empire, we should face the fact that they, the communists, have a strategy that has outsmarted us.
Gorbachev tried. They lost all of their former slave colonies (republics)in the process, or did you forget about that. And they ai'nt going back. They lost all influence in eastern Europe as well. Former iron curtain countries such as Pland , the Chech Republic, and Hungary are doing quite nicely as US allies now. People can migrate to and from Russia now. They will not be defeating anybody anytime soon.
They never mention that Litvinenko had converted to Islam, nor that the family fought hard to get him a traditional Islamic funeral. I think it is imperative to include that information and to follow the trace it leaves as well. Otherwise he ends up looking like a freedom-fighting whistle-blower. But I think there is more.
Interesting.
Thanks for posting.
Counterpoint here...
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/11/litvinenko_conv.html
You are missing the longer range picture here. The EU is firmly socialist and has been dubbed "Soviet Europe" by none other that Gorbachev. And we are currently fighting Russia when we take on al-Qaeda. Russia is behind 9-11!
Oh yes, and we the USA paid them ten of billions of dollars for that ransom of eastern Europe.
Islam, while it is as a problem, is really not the issue here, in light of this information about Russia backing al-Qaeda. Thes are not vague connections we are talking about here. Russia is our enemy. And we are fighting their agents abroad and at home.
No, Russia was not responsible for 911. Its birch paranoia. And Russia wasn't responsible for staging the Beslan massacre, it really happened. Russia is now surrounded by former republics and sattelite states that have no intention of being controlled again. Russia can't find its ass with both hands.
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