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Bush Buries The Shame Of Yalta May 18, 2005 by Phyllis Schlafly Thank you, President George W. Bush, for correcting history and making a long overdue apology for one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's tragic mistakes. Speaking in Latvia on May 7, Bush repudiated "the agreement at Yalta" by which powerful governments negotiated away the freedom of small nations. Bush accurately blamed Yalta for "the captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe" and said it "will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history." This admission has been 50 years coming, and Bush's words assure that "the...

WASHINGTON -- A hand grenade that landed within 100 feet of President Bush during his visit last week to a former Soviet republic was a threat to his life and the safety of the tens of thousands in the crowd, the FBI said Wednesday. The grenade was live but did not explode. The White House, which initially said Bush never was in danger, said the incident May 10 in the Georgia capital has led to a review of security at presidential events. FBI agents are still investigating in Tbilisi, where tens of thousands of people heard Bush speak in strong...

Russia -- The Empire of Tyranny By Askar Askarov FrontPageMagazine.com | May 19, 2005 President George W. Bush’s recent attendance in the festivities in Moscow marking the 60th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat took place against the background of rising tensions between Washington and the Kremlin. The American leader’s decision to make historic first time visits to the former Soviet republics of Latvia and Georgia drew an odd response from the Russian foreign minister, who went as far as sending a letter of protest. However inappropriate, the protest did not transpire without reason. Mr. Sergey Lavrov understood well the symbolic...

U.S. President George W. Bush reiterated on May 18 that the United States will help Georgia’s democratic development, adding that Georgians “have the will to succeed.” President Bush made the remarks at a dinner honoring members of the International Republican Institute, a non-governmental organization that runs democracy training programs and monitors elections in more than 60 countries. The U.S. President also spoke about his impressions of visiting Georgia on May 9-10. “It was a fantastic honor to represent our country in front of thousands of people, and to stand side-by-side with a true lover of freedom, President Saakashvili,” Bush said....

RUSSIA ATTACKED BECAUSE IT'S GETTING STRONGER 19/05/2005 MOSCOW, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - "The strong are not popular," and this explains the growing attacks on Russia by the former Soviet republics, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Izvestia. Lavrov explained his idea by saying that when the 50th anniversary of VE-Day was marked in 1995, Russia had "sky-high debts, it was weak and tended to avoid an international policy that is now described as multi-vectored." Yet the 1995 VE-Day celebrations were not surrounded by the controversy that marked this year's events as the Baltic countries raised...

It was the very worst of times. It was the opening days of 1942.   The story of that year is told in a new book, "1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls," by Winston Groom. When America and Europe recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of VE day - the day the Nazis were finally defeated - I wondered if we would ever have a similar day to mark the defeat of global terror. I looked again at "1942" sitting on my desk. As an editor, I am deluged with books to review. Only a few make it to my lap...

TBILISI (Reuters) - A grenade thrown toward President Bush during a visit to Georgia last week was a threat to the American leader and only failed to explode because of a malfunction, the FBI said on Wednesday. In a statement, a Federal Bureau of Investigation official at the U.S. embassy said the grenade, thrown while Bush made a keynote speech in Tbilisi's Freedom Square on May 10, had been live and landed within 100 feet (30 meters ) of the president. "While the president ... was making his remarks on Freedom Square, a hand grenade was tossed in the general...

In a foreign country the other day, a throng of people, chanting slogans and waving flags, awaited President George W. Bush. Hundreds of thousands of protesters, right? People angry at American aggressiveness and arrogance, no doubt. World citizens who think Mr. Bush is a reckless cowboy, too simplistic, his thought too little nuanced, his pronouncements too unmodulated for this complex, modern world. After all, isn't that what American elites have been telling us for years, now: that the Bush foreign policy is making the United States into the world's pariah? The elites were wrong again. The Bush visit occurred in...

Thank you, President George W. Bush, for correcting history and making a long overdue apology for one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's tragic mistakes. Speaking in Latvia on May 7, Bush repudiated "the agreement at Yalta" by which powerful governments negotiated away the freedom of small nations. Bush accurately blamed Yalta for "the captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe" and said it "will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history." This admission has been 50 years coming, and Bush's words assure that "the legacy of Yalta was finally buried, once and for all." It was...

Military planes roared overhead. Thousands of troops goose-stepped, leading the way with the old hammer-and-sickle flag. There, at Red Square, President George W. Bush took it all in. Back in the U.S.S.R., a glum Bush watched the Russian military display to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II. During his historic trip to Russia and several Baltic states once in the Soviet sphere, Bush was uncompromising in his defense of liberty.

Hello there! I am new to this forum. I am from Germany and I am interested in politics. I want to learn more from the US especially besides our papers and TV. So as a start-up my question is: What do you think about WWII? Was everything such simple. Have there been certain interests of the Allies? What was the role of the UK? Was Germany the biggest danger or was it Russia? Many question, I know. :) But more interesting for me: What is your point of view regarding Germany today? How do you consider the current politics of...

Saying sorry By Anne Applebaum "It just offends me that the president of the United States is, directly or indirectly, attacking his own country in a foreign land." That was 1998. The speaker, Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), was then House majority whip. The president was Bill Clinton, who had "attacked his own country" while in Uganda. "Going back to the time before we were even a nation," Clinton had told an African audience, "European Americans received the fruits of the slave trade. And we were wrong in that." Fast-forward seven years; the president is now George W. Bush. Last weekend he...

Bush's Diplomatic MasterstrokeApplause Lines by Jacob T. Levy Only at TNR Online Post date: 05.13.05 President Bush's first term was not marked by an overeagerness to confront Russia, either on its failings at home or on its foreign policy. Especially after September 11, Bush turned a blind eye to Chechnya, Russian meddling (including armed meddling) in other former Soviet republics, corruption, violations of the rule of law, and the slow-motion destruction of the (partial) independence of Russia's press, courts, parliament, and provinces. Bush curried favor with Vladimir Putin--just as Bill Clinton had curried favor with Boris Yeltsin and Bush's...

During his recent trip to Europe commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Allies' victory over Nazi Germany, President Bush gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a healthy dose of reality. Speaking in Riga, Latvia, before meeting with Putin, Bush said, "For much of Germany, defeat led to freedom. For much of Eastern and Central Europe, victory brought the iron rule of another empire. V-E Day marked the end of fascism, but it did not end oppression. The agreement at Yalta followed in the unjust tradition of Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. ... The captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe...

Bushspeak in Europe It was a great weekend for major-power politics. The debate was quickly framed as follows: Did President Bush, by his remarks, contribute to the stability of democracy, or did he enhance the prospects of destabilization in Russia? That criticism is serious and attracts immediate concern. A reductionist formulation of the criticism would remind us that territorial Russia stretches across eleven time zones and that however bedraggled the Russian military is at this point, Russia is still the second largest nuclear power in the world — by some reckonings, the premier nuclear power, since the old, wicked USSR...

PILSEN, Czech Republic (Army News Service, May 12, 2005) -- It was early in the morning, and most of the townspeople were still in their homes when they heard the sound. It was the sound of metal rolling against metal, chewing up the ground and rumbling toward them like a small earthquake. The people crept out of their homes, and when they learned the ruckus was the sound of V Corps tanks advancing, they came to believe the rolling thunder was the greatest sound they had ever heard – the sound of liberation. On May 6, 1945, in the closing...

As the world commemorated the 60th anniversary of the end of the European Theater of World War II, revisionism was the norm. In the last few years, new books and articles have argued for a complete rethinking of the war. The only consistent theme in this various second-guessing was a diminution of the American contribution and suspicion of our very motives. Indeed, most recent op-eds commemorating V-E day either blamed the United States for Hamburg or for the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, or for our supposed failure to credit the Russians for their sacrifices. It is true that the...

Moscow was the last place President Bush should have gone to mark the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. Russian soldiers goose-stepping through Red Square, dignitaries assembled in front of Lenin's tomb, the strains of the Soviet anthem introduced by Stalin in 1944 — this was not a scene that the leader of the free world had any business being a part of

Thank you, President Bush, for correcting history and making a long overdue apology for one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tragic mistakes. Speaking in Latvia on May 7, Bush repudiated “the agreement at Yalta” by which powerful governments negotiated away the freedom of small nations. Bush accurately blamed Yalta for “the captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe” and said it “will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history.” This admission has been 50 years coming, and Bush’s words assure that “the legacy of Yalta was finally buried, once and for all.” It was at Yalta,...

President Bush struck a nerve during his recent trip to Europe when he acknowledged America's role in the communist enslavement of Eastern Europe after World War II. In a speech in Latvia, he said the United States and Britain share the blame for the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states through the 1945 Yalta Conference treaty -- the crown jewel of liberal diplomacy -- and urged Russian Premier Vladimir Putin to own up to the Soviet Union's dark past. Weary of war, worried about their popularity at home and wanting Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's aid in defeating Japan after Germany's...