The sooner Americans (indeed Europeans as well) get it into their minds we're not fighting for oil, but probably our very lives -- for the life of Western Civilization as we know it -- the sooner we can get on with it.
Posted on 03/24/2003 4:51:16 PM PST by Sabertooth
Man, am I glad we got our daughter adopted and out of Russia last year, not now, with all of this tenseness. But I'll say one thing, the Russians, I noticed in Moscow, seemed to have this unhealthy affinity for all things French. The architecture of "old town" (not the Khruschev high rises) was straight out of Paris. My host family's daughter had married a Frenchman working in Moscow and later emigrated to France. Russian pop music has a very French character to it, etc.
Francophilia seemed to be the rage, so I was saddened but not surprised to see Russia jump on the French UN bandwagon. Other than this unhealthy dependency on things French, I found the Russians to be more American-like in demeanor than other European peoples (except the Brits of course) with infrastructure complexities (vastness of geography, plentiful resources, etc.) much more in common with US problems than Western Europe.
Seems to me we could really be great allies, if they could just jettison the French envy.
I can tolerate posturing in public while staying away from real actions against the coalition. Many arab regimes do that. But Russians are doing more than such posturing according to this report. Unless they purposely sold rigged equipments to Saddam and told Americans how to elude them, this is a hostile action against American troops.
Well, they have to protect their investments…. all those billions in arms sales and of course the Iraqi oil.
Behind unknown soldier's monument was a raised platform and a set of columns in a circle, open at the top with numerous plaques. There was no explanation, just plaques bearing these dates and places:
Algiers, 1962-1964
Egypt, 1962-3, 1967-75
Syria, 1967-70, 1972-73
Yemen, 1962-63, 1967-1969
Syria/Lebanon, 1982
Laos, 1960-3, 1964-68, 1969-70
Vietnam, 1961-1974
Cambodia, 1970
China, 1924-27, 1937-44, 1945, 1946-1949, 1950
Ozero Khasan, 1938
Khalan Gol, 1939
Japan, 1945
North Korea, 1950-53
Ozero Damanskiy and Ozero Zhalansh Kol, 1969
Finland, 1939-40
Hungary, 1956
Czechslovakia, 1968
Yugoslavia, 1993-95
Cuba, 1962
Mozambique, 1967-69, 1970-75
Bangladesh, 1972-73
Angola, 1975-1979
Ethiopia, 1977-1979
Afghanistan, 1979-1989
I suppose soon they'll add a plaque reading "Iraq, 2003."
If this is indeed the case, can they be killed as enemy combatants?
What happened to 3?
The Third World has been at war for some time now...
One way to dispose of them would be as a suppository for pooty-poot.
I leave it to the president to name the op.
It's looking like Iraq is the investment.
BTTT
How are you tooth?
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