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Posted on 01/31/2005 6:40:53 PM PST by ChristianDefender
Dr. Jack Wheeler, creator of a unique intelligence website dubbed "the oasis for rational conservatives," shares how a gift of vodka and a little ingenuity helped Ukraine's Orange Revolution succeed, bringing the former Russian satellite onto President Bush's list of new democracies.
On his website, To the Point, Wheeler begins his column with a defense of the president's inaugural address and his call for peace through freedom, explaining the principle of "democratic pacifism."
"If two countries are real democracies, the odds of them going to war against each other are small, very small," Wheeler explains. "History gives no guarantees for the future. But if you want a peaceful world – a world without war and terrorism – then your absolute best chance is to replace tyrannies with freely elected constitutional governments."
Wheeler then turns to the recent success of Ukraine's Orange Revolution, which ushered in the democratically elected Viktor Yushchenko after his supporters virtually shut down the government in protest of the first presidential election, which fraudulently resulted in the victory of Yushchenko's Russian-backed opponent.
"Eastern Ukraine is heavily ethnic Russian. The main industry is coal. The miners are rough, tough, and hate Yushchenko for wanting to take Ukraine away from Russia and toward the West," writes Wheeler. "It was arranged for more than a thousand of them to be taken from Donetsk, the capital of the coal-mining region, by bus and train to Kiev, where, armed with clubs and blunt tools, they would physically beat up the Orange Revolutionaries. Such mass violence was not only to disperse the demonstrators but serve as an excuse for the government to declare martial law, suspending the Ukrainian Parliament (the Rada) and elections indefinitely."
Now comes the secret weapon: vodka.
"When the miners got on their buses and trains, they found to their joy case after case of vodka – just for them. When they arrived in Kiev, trucks awaited them filled with more cases of vodka – all free provided by 'friends' of the Donetsk coal miners. Completely soused, they never made it to Independence Square. Too hammered blind to cause any violence at all, they had a merry time, passed out and were shipped back to Donetsk."
Available only to subscribers of To the Point, Wheeler's column goes on to explain who provided the liquor: teams of Porter Goss' CIA working with their counterparts in British MI6 intelligence.
Writes the intel expert: "Just take a moment and reflect on how stone-cold brilliant this was. The forethought and planning it took, the innovative thinking. Bush doesn't send the Marines – he sends the vodka! – and achieves a democratic revolution. This is the sort of thinking, these are the sorts of tactics, that are going to be applied now for 'ending tyranny in our world.' Military force will be used only as a necessary resort."
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There is more than one way to skin a cat
LOL! GO W GO!
Knowing the Ukrainan I know, I would say this is completely feasible. I love it!
awesome
HA! Thanks for the ping!
The left must really hate being outsmarted by this puppet at every turn! *snrk*
ROFL! IF we could coax him off that park bench.......
I once heard a lecture on how the German Stormtroop offensive of 1918 was stopped by white bread, marmalade, and beef stew. As the Germans overran the British lines and penetrated into the rear areas, German soldiers who had been subsisting on sawdust bread, turnips, and horsemeat found stockpiles of real food. Their propaganda had told them that the British were starving due to the U-Boat war and they could see with their own eyes that this was false. The starving German troops stopped to pig out on the first real food they had seen in years.
A North Korean invasion could be stopped by pots of kimchee.
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I'll drink to that!
Fantastic! I wondered why those miners didn't show up, I remember their being mentioned as enroute during the dispute. Hooray for our side!
LOL
There'll be congressional hearing on why "W" didn't announce this ahead of time
I think I'll have a vodka tonic right now :-)
This is from WND. Which means I really don't believe it. Plus, if the CIA arranged this, they would have had cases of low-calorie beer instead of vodka.
If it's true, that's friggin great. :P
Hahaha... that was great...tnx for telling me...
Youre right about North Korea... when it comes to food any human being is tamed perhaps...
Really? i used to log-in on WND... does that mean that WND is not credible?
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