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Bush calls Russia a 'friend'
The Australian ^ | May 12, 2005

Posted on 05/11/2005 10:59:47 PM PDT by jb6

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1 posted on 05/11/2005 10:59:47 PM PDT by jb6
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What Bush really meant to say was that "Russia is our Comrade".

shameful.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

2 posted on 05/11/2005 11:02:18 PM PDT by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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"paying homage to people who died to defeat Nazism,"

Transalation: "...even though the communist govt signed a pact with hitler trying to squirrel out of being attacked, and was attacked anyway, and thank goodness for the treacherous winter months that turned the blitzkreig into a frozenkreig, because you guys were up against a wall, and our troops hammered them in the West, disrupted the nazi oil supplies, and...." need I go on?


3 posted on 05/11/2005 11:07:47 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet (home of the free because of the brave.)
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Politicans have to talk a lot of BS to foriegn leaders. What I don't like is when they talk BS to taxpayers.


4 posted on 05/11/2005 11:09:59 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Red6; BrooklynGOP; Destro; A. Pole; MarMema; YoungCorps; OldCorps; chukcha; FairOpinion; ...

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5 posted on 05/11/2005 11:13:57 PM PDT by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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Compared to Chicoms, they are friends. Who has less missiles pointed at us?


6 posted on 05/12/2005 12:26:12 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (No wonder the Southern Baptist Church threw Greer out: Only one god per church! [Ann Coulter])
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I read a report about the ongoing battle in Iraq on the Syrian border where the marines on their way to Quaim began taking fire from a town east of Quaim , they diverted to this town and began a house to house search ,in each of the houses they found car bombs ,body armor ,rockets and Armor
piercing machine gun rounds RUSSIAN made as well as russian machine guns. None of this type of equipment had been seen before .Some friends the russians .


7 posted on 05/12/2005 4:17:52 AM PDT by ballplayer
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russia is a friend...however its one of those "friends" we need

i fear ivan the bear,cause in my opinion he's the one thing besides china that could bring us down

8 posted on 05/12/2005 4:18:46 AM PDT by MetalHeadConservative35 (22 years old,republican and bitter..why? because our polictians have the mentality of a 5 year old)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet

George Bush does NOT EVER need a translation from YOU... whoever YOU are!!!!


9 posted on 05/12/2005 4:26:08 AM PDT by Lion in Winter (Getting old is NOT for sissies.... trust me, I know!)
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I do not fear anybody on this planet.... only FEAR GOD!!

I trusted George Bush enough to vote him TWICE and by golly, I will trust him on the this subject!! He knows more about the subject of Russia than you and I do, I am SURE.

10 posted on 05/12/2005 4:31:59 AM PDT by Lion in Winter (Getting old is NOT for sissies.... trust me, I know!)
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To: ballplayer

source please.


11 posted on 05/12/2005 7:18:40 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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To: MetalHeadConservative35

What will bring us down is ourselves and we are doing a hunky dorry job of that, to the tune of $2.5 BILLION in debt Each and Every DAY.


12 posted on 05/12/2005 7:19:28 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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To: Tulsa Ramjet
and our troops hammered them in the West,

You do realize that by Normandy, the Red Army was sitting on the Vestula (that's the river that runs through Warsaw Poland) and had destroyed the 6th German Army for a second time, this time 100 km inside of Romania.

13 posted on 05/12/2005 7:21:06 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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"had destroyed the 6th German Army for a second time, this time 100 km inside of Romania."

Bush was correct in stating the facts about Russia's turn-about and eventual imprisonment of eastern europe. I wish he would be tougher on Putin in general. As for the Chinese govt, according to Sen. Infhofe, they are making huge inroads into oil rich nations. They control the panama canal, in a sense, and they have a robust military. Who is more of a potential, below the radar threat because we buy so much of their stuff? China.


14 posted on 05/12/2005 8:26:15 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet (home of the free because of the brave.)
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Outside the fact that it was the Soviet Communist government, it was also 60 years ago. Stalin is dead. Krushchov is dead. Breznov is dead. They're all for the most part dead. And it was the Russian people in the Russian city streets that toppled the Soviet Union and broke up that union. Why don't you blame the Georgians, Ukrainians, etc for their roles? They all had citizens not only enforcing things: aka NKVD/KGB but they were often the decision makers: Stalin-Georgian, Beria (second in command)- Georgian, Krushchov (3rd in command)-- Ukrainian, etc.


15 posted on 05/12/2005 8:30:24 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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"Why don't you blame the Georgians, Ukrainians, etc for their roles?"

To be perfectly honest, don't know much of about their history. However, as history has shown, post WWII, those in control were puppets of Moscow. And people that stay in control in a tyrannical environment of a few decades, get use to the privileges of being in control, and do not want to turn loose.

Bush was being a good guest. Probably hoping to get future support (i.e. abstaining UN votes) if we decide to directly confront Iran or North Korea. Hopefully it works. You can't win chess only with Pawns.


16 posted on 05/12/2005 8:52:55 AM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet (home of the free because of the brave.)
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You do understand that Moscow was run, that is the Soviet Union, by a two georgians and a Ukrainian, right? This is not to say that Russians, like Molotov were not involved, but overall, Russians were a minority in the Communist party leadership upto Gorbichov. Felix, father of the Red Terror was a Pole. Lenin was half German (Volga) and his personal bodyguards were the Latvian Rifles. The father of the Gulags was Jewish (and ended up in one himself) and the father of the Gulag transportation system was equally Jewish (note: nationality not religion, all involved were atheists). Go read the linked interview with Putin. There are 4,000+ tv and radio stations in Russia, of which the government owns 1 directly and is a minority owner in 2 others.


17 posted on 05/12/2005 8:58:55 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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Interview Given by Vladimir Putin to CBS anchor Mike Wallace
18 posted on 05/12/2005 9:00:46 AM PDT by jb6 (Truth == Christ)
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85% of the German soldiers that died did it on the East front. Atleast 27 million Russians died, maybe as much as 42 million during the Second WW


19 posted on 05/12/2005 10:28:47 AM PDT by tomjohn77
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Interview Given by Vladimir Putin to CBS anchor Mike Wallace

Believe it or not, I read it all. Interesting insight. His take on the fired newscasters was strange. I guess Arnett's personal problems never made the briefings.

In any event, behind radical islamic fundamentalism, Chinese govt is the next biggest threat.


20 posted on 05/12/2005 2:44:52 PM PDT by Tulsa Ramjet (home of the free because of the brave.)
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