Posted on 12/30/2004 11:09:24 AM PST by lizol
Increasingly we see the work of Madeline Halfbright, George Soros, and Brzezinski, just like this writing, posted here and hailed by supposed conservative posters.
It's really very sad to see what has happened to FR recently. Invaded by socialists from Poland and John Birch paranoids....what a way to go downhill.
"Former CIA director R. James Woolsey, Jr. is Freedom House's chairman and its board contains Zbigniew Brzezinski, Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle, P. J. O'Rourke. Freedom House is funded by a number of foundations, including Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Soros Foundations."
Out of curiousity--why? I seem to remember that Putin was considered the candidate who'd bring Russia back to USSR style policies. It'd make logical sense that Russia would become less free under his regimen.
Have the public schools really done this much harm to us?
And that would have solved.............?
"And that would have solved.............?"
It would have:
1) Given the Muslim Chechans and other Islamic terrorists that their activities will be met with the harshest possible consequences, which they cannot afford to sustain.
2) It would have defended the honor of Russia and made Putin's nation seem very strong.
3) It would be an act of vengeance, to punish the Chechnyans for the horrible treatment of the Russians in Belsan.
4) It would be the world standing up to Islamic terrorism and saying "ENOUGH!!!"
Either Muslims stop committing terrorist acts or Islam will be destroyed.
I haven't heard of Freedom house before. I think FR will stand up against the left, but agree that we are sliding that way in America. Feeling better these days, MarMema? Hope so and to see you all soon!
Don't forget that bastion of conservatism, the Ford Foundation.
We just have to help people see past the wonderful blinders, including words like "freedom house" the liberals abroad use to disguise themselves and fool freepers who are not up to date in slavic issues.
Now their you go and spoil their delusions with facts. They'll ignore it, they always do. No matter how bad things get in Russia, they will support the resurgence of totalitarianism there till the end.
Slavic issues, it is something very familiar to me :)
"Supposedly he's our ally in the War on Terror..."
The best of Putin - December 2004:
"Putin denounced the U.S. “dictatorship” in international relations, accused the West of acting like a “kind but strict uncle in a pith helmet” lecturing Russia and ridiculed Bush’s plans for elections in Iraq next month."
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1300014/posts
"I have strong doubts that it's possible to create conditions for democratic elections (in Iraq) when its entire territory is occupied by foreign troops," he said.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307186/posts
"Today according to our estimates there are nine cities in Iraq where there are hostilities but they still want to carry out elections," he said, condemning European elections monitors' plans to observe the poll from Jordan as a "farce".
"We do not understand how there can be an election in a country under conditions of total occupation... It's absurd. It's a farce. Everything is upside down."
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307427/posts
Russia has every reason to criticize the United States, President Vladimir Putin said at a Kremlin press conference.
“We’re also not too happy about what’s going on in the United States,” the Russian Information Agency Novosti quoted him as saying. “Do you think that the electoral system in the United States is without problems? Is it necessary to recall how the elections went this time and the previous time?”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308004/posts
In 2004, Putin declared the collapse of the USSR a "national tragedy on an enormous scale."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin
What else could he do, since he was already occupying Chechnya ?
He could have nuked Chechnya (after removing the Russian troops.)
He could have razed Grozny to the ground with artillery and airstrikes.
These would have avenged the victims and sent a powerful message to the terrorists and their supporters (85%+ of the Chechnyan population)
And then he should have arrested terrorists and their supporters, and hung them publicly outside the Beslan school.
I know Putin says some pretty weird, anti-Western things. He even defended Slobodan Milosevic, saying the West had victimized him.
But he has a good relationship with Bush and I think he is saying these anti-Western things to voice the concern of all Russians about the isolation of their country. The only country still really allied with Russia is Belarus. They've lost Ukraine, Georgia, the Central Asian states, and just about every other Warsaw Pact nation. Putin is a nationalist, though a wimpish one. We're conservative; if we were Russian, we would probably be saying some of the same things. Many Russians like Stalin because he made their nation strong.
Putin has also supported Bush in the election, and is friends with Bush.
Like I said before, he seems to be a nice person, but he has dreams of resurrecting the Russian empire, so he needs to be watched like a hawk.
"Already did that with their new toy, a new fuel air bomb"
No wonder the New York Slimes hates Putin so much. Just thinking of all those poor, innocent terrorist sympathizers being blown to hell must have every bleeding heart liberal in tears. Soon public school teachers will have kids writing essays comparing the Eeeevil Imperialist Occupation of Chechnya to the Holocaust.
If Chechnya is ever about to get vaporized, and they ask the US for help, I dont think we should lift a finger.
Yep key word here is supposedly. He has never done anything to combat either AL Quaida or the goons that commited the Beslan murder. I hate the way the MSM and even our own government portrays Russia and China as allies in the War on Terror. China is arming terrorist nations with nuclear weapons and supports North Korea while Russia has done nothing at all to combat terrorism.
"Yep key word here is supposedly. He has never done anything to combat either AL Quaida or the goons that commited the Beslan murder. I hate the way the MSM and even our own government portrays Russia and China as allies in the War on Terror. China is arming terrorist nations with nuclear weapons and supports North Korea while Russia has done nothing at all to combat terrorism."
China our ally? In the War on Terror? China isnt our ally. Not in the WOT, not in trade, nothing.
They should be considered a hostile, dangerous rival at least, and I would even say they are an open enemy of the US. The war just hasnt started yet.
The reason Russia is considered an ally in WOT, though a rather tepid, unreliable one, is that Russia helped us in Afghanistan (no doubt they were eager to see the jihadis who had defeated them get their asses kicked) and also, Russia has been the victim of many Islamic terror attacks, so the US and Russia have that in common.
However, IMHO, the Russians have responded weakly to devastating attacks upon them.
Yes I know. China is openly hostile. Infact the US is still in a State of War against North Korea and China. Just that the fighting has died down (at least publically). There was also a shooting war between China and Taiwan back in the 1950s. Taiwan defeated China in that engagement while the US 7th fleet supported Taiwan (mostly logistically). This was during the height of the artillery duels between Taiwan and China over the Kinmen and Quuemoy islands. Grr I wish MacArthur got to nuke Shanghai and Beijing as he wished.
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