So much for this summit.
I'm tempted to post the "Master of the Obvious" graphic, but for many Euro-peons, and for most of the striped-pants cookie-pushers at State, this statement is NOT obvious.
More's the pity.
And just to prove it they built a wall around Eastern Europe and shot anyone trying to climb that wall. Putin sounds more and more like some of our liberal politicians ...tell a lie long e'nuff and sooner or later some left-wing fruitcake is gon'na believe it.
I like how Bush trashed Roosevelt for giving away a billion people in Eastern Europe to Communist rule to 'uncle joe'.
The idiotic headline on AOL right now, a photo of President Bush and "He Slams Putin, Chafes Wounds . . . Bush's Trip Raises Russian Ire . . . Are Icy Relations His Fault?"
Heaven forbid we have a President who tells the truth about Soviet oppression. His speech today made up for his father's infamous "Chicken Kiev" speech in July 1991, which precipitated the abortive August 1991 coup.
Okay, but I have yet to hear anyone put forth a practical alternative given the facts as they existed at the time, and "turn Patton loose" doesn't count. The Russians already had their armies in Eastern Europe and wee were not going to try to kick them out in the aftermath of Germany's defeat. Any president who tried something like that would have been impeached immediately.
Our troops in Europe wanted nothing else but to go home. The fact that some of them were going to have to go to the Pacific didn't sit well with them or their families; A shooting war with the Russians just wasn't going to happen.
What happened to the Eastern Europeans sucks. But history is full of such tragedies.
No doubt the President's comments today will rouse the treasonous Bed Wetters at CBS, NPR, NYT, etc, but today is as good a day as any for conservatives to publicly hold the Rat Bastard Left to account for its historically immoral acquiescence at Yalta.
President Bush's remarks should serve as the starting point for instilling truth into our childrens' history books about this despicable act of moral and political cowardice, a betrayal engineered by a socialist President and, as Joe McCarthy so presciently pointed out, by a Communist-infested party that seldom misses an opportunity to sell out our national interests to foreign enemies (think Clinton and China.)
I can only hope that this is the beginning of a drive to hold accountable the Rats who enjoyed the benefits of a five-decade partnership with the Communist tyrants who murdered millions of innocents and enslaved hundreds of millions.
Go W, go!!
No doubt the President's comments today will rouse the treasonous Bed Wetters at CBS, NPR, NYT, etc, but today is as good a day as any for conservatives to publicly hold the Rat Bastard Left to account for its historically immoral acquiescence at Yalta.
President Bush's remarks should serve as the starting point for instilling truth into our childrens' history books about this despicable act of moral and political cowardice, a betrayal engineered by a socialist President and, as Joe McCarthy so presciently pointed out, by a Communist-infested party that seldom misses an opportunity to sell out our national interests to foreign enemies (think Clinton and China.)
I can only hope that this is the beginning of a drive to hold accountable the Rats who enjoyed the benefits of a five-decade partnership with the Communist tyrants who murdered millions of innocents and enslaved hundreds of millions.
Go W, go!!
Hey Putin, tell that to the millions that were enslaved and murdered by the your country.
Putin is nothing but a sicko. God Bless Bush for standing up to him and calling the occupation of Eastern Europe wrong.
Thanks for the story, neverdem. This president just keeps getting better and better.
I heard this reported on NPR and was absolutely delighted. To my knowledge, this is the first time a U.S. President has EVER acknowledged that the decisions taken at Yalta were immoral and wrong.
This is a huge piece of honesty from President Bush. I imagine it was partly based on his personal convictions, partly related to the Bush doctrine of spreading freedom rather than playing ball with useful tyrants, and partly in reaction to the many provocative things Putin has said and done over the past few months.
The reporters on NPR sounded as if they could hardly get thewords out of their mouths, they tasted so bad, but they didn't dare criticize Bush for saying what he said. It is indeed obvious, although I believe Bush is the first President to say it, and say it clearly.
President Bush continues to impress. Not since President Reagan have we had the opportunity to hear a forthright denunciation of Communism from our leadership.
Heh....giving 'em ulcers over at the State Department again, where moral clarity must be checked at the front door.
Now, Bush throws a mud pie at Putin and it lands squarely in his face.
I agree, we should stop the war in Iraq, lets kill all the insurgents and come home.
I was never more proud of our President.
These are fiery words of earth-shaking courage and conviction.
Bush is so full of sh/t...what a joke.
And during the same period American democrats "Liberated" at least a trillion dollars from the american people.. for programs that didn't and havn't worked and STILL don't work..
As the soviets "liberated" about 50 million people of their lives.. during that time..
The soviets are such peace and freedom loving people AIN'T THEY... How do you know a Russian is LYING.. "their lips are moving"..
Too true.