Posted on 05/19/2005 7:35:58 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick
TBILISI, Georgia -- A grenade hurled into a crowd during last week's speech by U.S. President George W. Bush in the Georgian capital was live and considered a threat, though it failed to explode because of a malfunction, the FBI said yesterday.
Georgian officials initially said the Soviet-era grenade was inactive.
But FBI agent Bryan Paarmann said that the grenade, wrapped in a dark handkerchief, fell about 30 metres from the podium where Bush was speaking.
Where was Elizabeth Bumiller, at the time?
I don't mean to complain but how many times is this going to get posted. Searching helps cut down on all these dups.
Big angels.
I didn't notice it anywhere else. Anyway, if this thread deserves to be pulled, please feel free to alert the moderators that it has already been posted elsewhere.
Perhaps the grenade malfunctioned through divine intervention.
From Soros With Love.
That's probably because you didn't do a search, you lazy newbie.
There were at least a dozen posts between today and yesterday.
you posted like 20 new threads just today. Get a life
I'm not going to assume that C&S was logged onto FR within the past 24 hours....
.....and C&S shouldn't assume that because he/she didn't see a particular article that it's ok to post it without doing an appropriate search of FR first.
Of course, I could have simply done a search of C&S's recent activity to find out.
Huh? Bush hurled a grenade into a crowd?
This is the cold war all over again.
We will carry the brunt of the load in the Global War On Terror.
Some nations will conveniently choose not to even acknowledge there is a threat. Others will see themselves as victims, yet it will be us who will pay the most economically, politically and militarily (In blood).
It will take decades, not days to win this struggle. Conspiracy theories will be woven by our self proclaimed intellectuals and those abroad. Doomsday prophets will claim failure since victory will not be quick, some battles along this long road ahead will even be lost and success is difficult to measure.
When it’s all over 30 years from now, all will benefit. All will want to reap the fruits of our labor. Few will give Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney, Rice any credit. Just like Reagan will never be a hero in the German’s mind, it was he who did more than anyone else to end the cold war. Even today FEW in the MSM want to associate any of the pro-democracy and profound changes in the Middle East with the Bush administration and its policies. Little correction and self criticism will be heard by the doomsday prophet and Bush hating pundit when it’s all done. As with the Cold War and even Vietnam they will conveniently look at other issues and just move on.
Bush was criticized when he visited US troops on Thanksgiving 2004 in Baghdad. Reagan experienced a similar backlash from the MSM when he visited a WWII graveyard on which German SS troops had also been buried. Bush has huge Cohunes as Reagan did. Who can't remember Reagans microphone test? :) I’m sure the Secret Service was not too thrilled about going to Baghdad where planes were still being shot at before and after he left. They surely knew there was an elevated threat in the Republic of Georgia. Bush in my opinion simply believes in something greater than himself. Actions speak louder than words despite what the MSM (CNN, Newsweek, Rather, Spiegel……all who claim to be objective) tries to spoon feed me.
Bush like Reagan is the beginning of an end for a major threat to US security. Like Reagan’s “Evil Empire”, Bush set a tone, an agenda, focused the nation, prioritized issues, and has a large picture concept of where we are and where we need to go. OUR Global War On Terror, Missile Defense Shield and several other security objectives will ensure that while the world is no utopia 30 years from now, our security and even that of our allies is possible. Bush has started an avalanche that even had a Kerry won, he would not have been able to backpedal us out of. That’s a good thing, despite what some liberal may think. Like Reagan, Bush is a hated man among many of those who want the “Status Quo”, but call themselves liberal. Like Reagan he started a huge wheel to start turning and it will be near impossible to stop it.
Just my silly opinion.
Red6
Oh my gosh!
Seriously, I didn't think it that big a blunder to have posted this article, which many here say is a repeat post.
Honestly, how many of you search for articles already posted before posting them, especially when titles vary with the source? I, for one, don't.
When I browse FR, I look for about twenty of the newest articles. I didn't see any article on this subject then. Blame it on my short attention span.
I am really sorry if my posting of this article offended any or all of you. I sincerely advise you to suggest the moderator to pull this post, citing that it had already been posted by someone else.
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