The Boogey Man is gonna get them otherwise!
Posted on 08/22/2008 11:54:31 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
WARSAW (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski celebrated the signing of a missile shield deal this week with Georgian wine, a choice sure to leave a bitter taste for Russia.
Moscow, embroiled in a row with the West over its military incursion into the tiny ex-Soviet republic of Georgia, is fiercely opposed to the missile shield, saying it poses a direct threat to its own security.
Poland says the choice of Georgian 2005 Kakhetian Royal wine to complement Polish pike-perch at a dinner hosted by Sikorski was not meant as a slight to Russia.
"(Rice) smiled and, if I remember correctly, said she had had a chance to deal with Georgia and its politicians, but had not tasted its wine," the Polish newspaper Dziennik quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Ryszard Schnepf as saying.
Poland agreed to host elements of the planned U.S. missile shield a few days after Russia launched its offensive into Georgia in response to Tbilisi's attempt to reclaim the breakaway, Moscow-backed province of South Ossetia.
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Ha!
Pootie Poot ain’t gonna be happy
I’d rather that they were toasting Russian tanks with Molotov cocktails. And he was a Russian, so how could they complain?
Excellent message!
The “Grapes of Wrath”? Sorry couldn’t resist that one...
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The Boogey Man is gonna get them otherwise!
Keep a close eye on Crimea and the port of Sevastopol which are part of the Ukraine. This will be the next Russian target for “protecting ethnic Russians”.
Ping.
Hmmm...a prior Gareth Jones was the anti-Duranty.
From below, links can be discovered to some of Gareth's historically most noteworthy articles::
1. Exposé of 1933 Soviet Ukrainian starvation.
2. The Rise of Hitler's Germany.
3. Impressions & Interviews in the Far East in 1935.
4. America, War Reparations & Roosevelt's 'New Deal'.
5. 'Enigma of Ireland', 1933.
6. In Search of News - Retrospective of The Western Mail articles.
7. Mussolini Has Spoken.
8. Rural Wales in the Summer of 1933.
9. Unemployment in the 1930s.
10. Prophesy of World Politics Through the Thirties, 31 Dec 1930.
11. Confidential Interview in 1933 with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Litvinoff (Litvinov), regarding Soviet Foreign Policy which Correctly Predicted All the Major Events which Led to the Second World War.
12. Finally a Series of Three 'Lost' 1935 & Most Vitriolic Anti-Stalinist Articles, Personally Commissioned by Randolph Hearst, where Gareth First Coined the Term "Man-Made Famine" to describe the Holodomor (to be found in the second article).
ping for a victory toast and if you get a chance, try some of this sometime. It is yummy!!
Oh, never mind, wrong "Georgia".
Condi better beware, Poles can drink anybody under the table.
Oh, c’mon! Not with red wine :-)))
I know it's not over and there could still be trouble at Poti, but I am taking satisfaction thinking of how Putin/Medvedev must be feeling right now: Foreign investment in Russia PLUMMETING, NATO with US, some of Old Europe and New Europe failing so horribly to be intimidated by the Bear, the exposure of Pooty's military being so much less than heralded (thinking of the article on how Russians overpowered small Georgia with sheer numbers but not expertise or excellence), almost everyone denouncing them...
Russia can blame its leaders. The Polish wing of the family (by sibling marriage) are no doubt celebrating!
Georgian President grateful for Poland’s help
thenews.pl | 22.08.2008
Posted on 08/22/2008 1:16:46 PM PDT by lizol
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066298/posts
Well, it wasn’t that long ago when the Russians drank Georgian wine, too. It’s too cold to grow grapes in Russia.
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