[lizol]

Amen. And God bless Poland, God bless America!

[CT CONSERVATIVE]

I started a business in PL last year and I'm so pleased. Hard working, smart, capitalistic and freedom loving are the Poles. Think every liberal ought to spend a couple of decades under commie rule to find out it aint nirvana.

[2banana]

Hey, I know from personal experience that Slovakia supports the US - also the Baltic states and most of Ukraine...!

[mainepatsfan]

It seems the nations that were behind the iron curtain support America today more than the nations the U.S. protected from the Soviets for a half century.

[Bahbah]

almost two-thirds of Poles feel that Bush's second term will bring more peace to the world. In contrast, 77 percent of Germans, 75 percent of the French and 64 percent of Brits think that Bush's re-election will make the world a more dangerous place.

I don't know what makes Poles so much smarter than these others, but they clearly are.

[LadyPilgrim]

Thought you might want to see this. ;-)

[DoctorMichael]

Polish Heritage Bump.

[6ppc]

I love the Poles. When I was in high school I went on a European tour with our glee club. The Poles were the friendliest and happiest people in Europe, even under the thumb of the USSR.

[bahblahbah]

[MissAmericanPie]

Move our troops from Germany to Poland.

[Atlantic Bridge]

"The word "freedom" in Poland still has a stronger meaning than in the rest of the European Union."

I am afraid that this is very true. Your country has a such big potential to bring into Europe. Maybe the strong polish will to be free will give Europe the intellectual kick to develop again into something more than just a economic union. It is quite clear, that you have to keep your interests - everybody would -, but it would be wonderful if your friendship would not be limited to America.

We need our sisters and brothers from free Poland!

... Somebody from "old" Europe! ...

[Atlantic Bridge]

"The word "freedom" in Poland still has a stronger meaning than in the rest of the European Union."

I am afraid that this is very true. Your country has a such big potential to bring into Europe. Maybe the strong polish will to be free will give Europe the intellectual kick to develop again into something more than just a economic union. It is quite clear, that you have to keep your interests - everybody would -, but it would be wonderful if your friendship would not be limited to America.

We need our sisters and brothers from free Poland!

... Somebody from "old" Europe! ...

[processing please hold]

God bless Poland, her military, her leaders and her peoples.

Thank you Poland. A friend in need, is a friend indeed.

[rudypoot]

This article is on target. I know a bunch of polish people. They really do think America is the promised land. But when they first get over here they find our real quick that they have to work to get what they want. It's a shock to them at first because they are promised irrational expectations. However, once they get settled in they feel very fortunate to be where they are. They work very hard and they are friendly.

The women are some of the hottiest I have ever seen ;)

My only complaint is that I have the hardest time trying to speak polish!

[untenured]

Inspired by the United States, the Polish Parliament, or "Sejm," in 1791 passed a progressive constitution.

I did not know that.

[lonevoice]

I would love to see Poland become the ultimate vacation destination that many Americans have considered France or Italy to be. They are so worthy of our friendship, our interest, and the support of our USD$.

http://www.polandtour.org/aboutpoland/generalinformation/index.html

[lizol]

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[Soul Seeker]

If ever I decide to take a vacation across the sea, Poland is going to be a destination.

Really hope unemployment eases for everyone in Poland.

[foreshadowed at waco]

I live in Brooklyn about 2 neighborhoods from Greenpoint, a true Polish enclave. You can go to eat in some of the restaurants and get family style servings. Most of the clientele are blue collar men who eat in groups--their wives and sweethearts are back in Poland and they are here earning the money to support them and eventually bring them over here. Good, hard working people.

[SierraWasp]

I had to go and actually read the UPI artical because I was certain from the headline that this would be another... Oh woe is the USA who has lost every friend it ever had except one little former iron curtain country because of that awful GWB, Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz of the "NeoCons!"

I was just certain that it would be another lamentation of how the USA was now cast into outer darkness, outside the comyoonutty of the yoonited nayshuns with it's self-righteous certitude touted by old FrancoGermanic EUrope of Carter's Peanut Oil For Food infamy!!!

And you know what? After reading the article, if I wanted to be really touchy about it, I could say I still sense some of that rotten flavor in the article. Maybe it wasn't intended, but if you give it more than one sniff, you can smell that pungent rotten odor.

Real Americans can support their exceptional nation and it's exceptional history even if every other collection of tribes, peoples, nationalities, or what have you were to turn their backs on us for whatever perceived "reason!"

The very idea that America is so utterly wrong about everything that it needs to be shunned by other nations is bogus and bizarre to the max!!! Fergedaboutit!!!

God has already blessed America so many times and so far beyond any other nation on the face of the Earth that that very fact is what gives rise to all the phony envious hints and suggestions that America is "going it alone!"

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"First, America is freedom." You can stop right there. That covers it. :)