Posted on 11/14/2008 10:32:26 AM PST by Eurotwit
With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on August 12, Mr Sarkozy told Mr Putin that the world would not accept the overthrow of Georgia’s Government. According to Mr Levitte, the Russian seemed unconcerned by international reaction. “I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls,” Mr Putin declared.
Mr Sarkozy thought he had misheard. “Hang him?” — he asked. “Why not?” Mr Putin replied. “The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein.”
Mr Sarkozy, using the familiar tu, tried to reason with him: “Yes but do you want to end up like [President] Bush?” Mr Putin was briefly lost for words, then said: “Ah — you have scored a point there.”
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Oh, that kinky Pooty.
Maybe he should call Jesse Jackson and get a 2 for 1.
Funny, I think Mad Vlad would look pretty good in that position.
Actually come March 2009 I expect Russian tanks will be overrunning Georgia with nary a whisper from little O.
I don’t think he meant it just as a figure of speech either.
Putin’s gettin’ really testes, er,,, testy,, these days!
No, the people of Iraq hung the bastard and rightly so. Americans only supplied the rope.
“Vlad the BallHanger”
With the new administration and us in debt to The Chicoms (thank you, George Bush), it's more likely that we'll let them take Taiwain.
On that subject - I found this little gem that reminded me about the Russians:
In the early twentieth century, parachute silk was rare in the Soviet Union, so the military conducted dubious experiments with air-dropping soldiers into deep snow without parachutes. In 1930, the Grokhovskiy Special Design Bureau experimented with dropping “air buses” full of troops: the bicycle-wheeled G-45 onto land, and the amphibious “hydro bus” into water. When the hydro bus disintegrated on landing, the chief designer and his assistant were strapped into the G-45 for a test drop; they survived, but the project was cancelled (Zaloga 1984:192).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_tank
“Actually come March 2009 I expect Russian tanks will be overrunning Georgia with nary a whisper from little O.”
You have that right. O will probably welcome them, and help them unload the tanks off the ships after the Russians cross the Atlantic!
Or did you meant the republic of Georgia.?!...
During WWII, the Russians were testing their parachutes. Sometimes they didn’t open at all and a lot of troops were lost this way. During the invasion of Finland, hundreds of troops were dropped during the middle of winter. As usual, some of the chutes didn’t open and the troops fell straight down into the deep snow, drilling holes fifteen feet deep. The Finnish farmers would then get out their shotguns, walk out into their fields, find the holes, and fire down them.
- Lauri Anderson, Finnish Farmers
Sounds like the Finns were very pragmatic, turning invaders into fertilizer!
I heard the Finns painted rocks white, too.
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