Posted on 03/26/2005 1:53:56 PM PST by Shermy
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And I am so glad that I was pinged to a non-Terri thread, that it's made my whole weekend. Thanks!
He's one hot potato.
6 months - he'll be denouncing Bjork.
Speaking of sociopaths, would they be willing to take Hitlery as well?
Fischer might be crazy, but any American who violates "United Nations sanctions" ought to have a medal pinned on him. It is disgraceful for the United States to prosecute someone for this "crime."
This guy hates America more than bin Laden, so I'm not very receptive to statements in his defense.
The clintonian embargo against Yugoslavia was a travesty. The Serbs were embargoed, but clinton let Muslim terrorists freely enter Bosnia with their weapons.
Much the way clinton let Chinese freighters carry missiles and nuclear warheads into Pakistan during the Pakistan-India standoff. Some embargo.
Sorry, Pal. Even though I did not agree with Clinton's wag the dog war against Yugoslavia, Slobo is no saint. He was cultivating a personality cult, just like Chavez of Venezuela. He loosed gangs of loyalist thugs against his opposition. Like Gorby, he is an unrepenant Commie.
Which makes the U.S. even more hypocritical than the United Nations. If he had played 1,000 chess games on a pile of corpses in Tiananmen Square, he would have come home to a throng of U.S. government officials offering to give him a Lewinsky for promoting economic ties to our "most favored nation" trading partner.
Just what we need, another Milosevic apologist.
"I find the article words "America, the country that made all his success possible" somewhat amusing. This sentiment seems to waft nostalgically from Soviet newspapers of not-so-recent past. If anything, it was Spassky's success which was made possible by his country (the state was massively supporting Soviet chess organizations and top players), not Fischer's. Had Fischer been receiving a state stipend prior to 1972? I remember reading that in his teens he turned a professional chess player, and had to live off it."
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Kasparov himself is retiring from chess and is currently writing a multi-volume history of the twentieth-century game. He wrote a good piece in OpinionJournal.com about Fischer and the way his phenomenal level of play and diva behavior shook up the soviet-dominated chess world and made in mediagenic and less musty and geekish. Not that he himself gave a damn of course. His borderline schizophrenia got the better of him after that. He has always been one notch short of loony-bin status ever since. Let Iceland have him and welcome.
Fischer may have a checkered past, but I get the feeling he's somebody's pawn in all this.
Madman Bobby is NOT a sociopath. He is a Paranoid Schizophrenic. IMHO, he can stay wherever he wants.
It is just a matter of time before he starts to bad mouth Iceland too.
I think he got in trouble for traveling on his passport once it was pulled.
Poor feller suffers a really bad dose of the Liberal Psychosis.
[Although not quite as severe as the doses suffered by, say, Kohn-Kerry, either of the Kling Tongs, Chuck-bucket Schumer, Yasser Daschle, Dean, Ted Swimmer, Sheets or Legsup Boxer. Among others]
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