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Bosnian Serbs unveil statue honoring Archduke Ferdunand's assassin
American Thinker ^ | 6/28/2014 | Rick Moran

Posted on 06/28/2014 5:46:34 AM PDT by markomalley

This is pretty bizarre - even for the Balkans.

Bosnian Serbs unveiled a statue yesterday honoring Gavrilo Princip, the teenager who pulled the trigger in Sarajevo 100 years ago today killing Archduke Ferdinand - heir to the throne of the Hapsburg Empire - and his wife. The event touched off a series of blunders, misjudgements, and misadventures that culminated in the great powers stumbling into a war that few of them wanted and none could foresee the consequences for.

By the time the dust settled in November, 1918, the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires had disintegrated, Russia had gone Communist, and Germany, Great Britain, and France had been bled white. Nearly 40 million died, both soldiers and non-combatants. Ands yet, the man who is largely responsible for starting the conflict is honored as a hero?

You have to be pretty obtuse to ignore the massive bloodletting and celebrate the national impulses that drove Princip and his Clown Car Posse of hapless conspirators to carry out their shocking murders.

Associated Press:

Marking the eve of the centennial of the beginning of World War I, Bosnian Serbs on Friday unveiled a monument in Sarajevo to the man who ignited the war by assassinating the Austro-Hungarian crown prince on June 28, 1914.

At the other end of the city, the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra was rehearsing for Saturday’s grand EU-sponsored performance, planned as a symbolic start of a new century of peace at the place where decades of war in Europe started 100 years ago.


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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: firstworldwar; weird; wwi
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To: JW1949
Yes, they left because the Church of England wouldn't tolerate their views.

Follow our teachings or leave.

Sounds like Expulsion to me.

41 posted on 06/28/2014 11:04:47 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: onedoug

So you were in the highlands...I was in RSSZ...


42 posted on 06/28/2014 11:05:17 AM PDT by JW1949
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To: KC_Lion

They left of their own accord....


43 posted on 06/28/2014 11:06:13 AM PDT by JW1949
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To: JW1949

But, be that as it may, Americans at large were NOT expeklled from Great Britain...Great Britain was expelled from the USA....Period.


44 posted on 06/28/2014 11:08:09 AM PDT by JW1949
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To: docbnj; Colonel_Flagg; GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs; BillyBoy; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; KC_Lion; Perdogg

“...So please spare me the rah-rah stuff....”

Having had a Doughboy grandfather who crunched mud in the Argonne, and a father who did it all over again twenty five years later, in the Ardenne AND the airborne assault into Germany, plus Marine uncles in the Pacific... Dad also did occupation duty in Germany for two years. As in “Occupied after they surrendered”.

They’d definitely disagree with you.

“...We are not even alert enough to stop large busses of illegal immigrants from calmly driving across the boarder full of whole families of illegal aliens. We don’t even have any effective military presence, and not even effective border agents....”

Everything you posted in that particular paragraph has absolutely NOTHING to do with “WE” - and has everything to do with Obama and his cabal of socialist/communist democrats.


45 posted on 06/28/2014 11:47:51 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: KC_Lion

Ours is truly a Dark Age, at least so far as Europe is concerned.


46 posted on 06/28/2014 1:47:19 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: JW1949

That is deep in jungle. Beautiful country all the way up to the Chinese border. And nearly two thousand miles of some of the most beautiful beachfront in the world.

Have you ever thought of going back? Daughter and I did back in 2000. (Wife doesn’t want to fly.)

We did Saigon, which I had never seen before. Then we flew to Danang, and day-tripped for 8 days to many of the places I remembered...some good, some bad, from the first time wround. Stayed at a real swanky place for about $130/night. Always wanted to get back for that twilight swim in their swell pool.

The restaurants were a knock-out too.

From there we flew up to Hanoi and stayed in a French colonial hotel for two days before heading home.

The people in the North are much less gregarious than those in the South. So in that sense, they’re still two different countries. And the Southerners still love Americans and will try to practice their English on you constantly.

‘Bet you’d like it.


47 posted on 06/28/2014 3:20:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

Did you notice the Hilton hotel chain now has a property in Hanoi?

They just don’t call it the Hanoi Hilton.


48 posted on 06/28/2014 3:47:04 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: JW1949

how big were the catfish there?


49 posted on 06/28/2014 6:43:58 PM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: GOPsterinMA; NFHale
RE:”Well, I’ve been hoodwinked. According to a few “enlightened” folks, the USA DID NOT WIN either World War, we we just along for the ride.
Honestly, what resides in the woodwork on here is as pathetic as it is humorous.”

I just followed the comments up and the idea arguing whether or not we ‘won’ those wars reminds me of arguments I used to have as a kid, and don't miss. Arguing over the meaning of word 'win' and 'we'.

I do recall that Germany and Japan surrendered unconditionally to the allies, that seems like a clear win to the allies.

50 posted on 06/28/2014 8:42:29 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: GOPsterinMA; NFHale; sickoflibs

Dude was obviously just picking a fight.


51 posted on 06/28/2014 10:54:06 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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RE:”Dude was obviously just picking a fight”

I get more of a laugh out of the
I pay cash for EVERYTHING so Obama cant use my purchases to put me on the death panels list"(Sarah must have said so) freepers than trying to debate which side won WWII.

Chase is offering 5% back for all gas purchases from July through Sept. Does that mean that Obama will put me on his death panels list for global warming ?

52 posted on 06/28/2014 11:05:44 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: sickoflibs

Some people can never have enough tin foil.

I guess they pay full price for every too because I assume even those little grocery store key chains cards are a no no.


53 posted on 06/28/2014 11:10:07 PM PDT by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA
RE:”I guess they pay full price for every too because I assume even those little grocery store key chains cards are a no no.”

I am sure that those grocery chains use my purchases against me,
I like to shop from store to store to get the best buys, and with those cards they can figure out that a few customers buy lots of sales items.

But I dont put on a tin foil hat over it. .

54 posted on 06/28/2014 11:28:20 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: sickoflibs

You’re a cherry picker; welcome to the club.


55 posted on 06/29/2014 7:56:30 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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To: Impy; NFHale; sickoflibs

Just reinforces my theory on the IQ of ‘x’ on here...


56 posted on 06/29/2014 7:59:10 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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To: NFHale; Impy

Vinegar and water solutions are abound.


57 posted on 06/29/2014 8:11:02 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs

“...just picking a fight....”

Been a lot of that lately. One wonders... full moon?


58 posted on 06/29/2014 12:14:15 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale; Impy; sickoflibs

Examples of lack of civility and intelligence.

There are so many that are “on our side” that you have to conclude “our side” is very, very small.


59 posted on 06/29/2014 1:55:07 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA
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