[mhking]

You knew this would be coming sooner or later...

[aspasia]

link to the rest of the story

[Stavka2]

Russia is the dearest of allies and the worst of enemies...choose wisely and allow full membership and other incentives for the population...it is an elected government after all.

And before anyone says anything about human rights, lets see...Czech and Hungary both practice a lot of direct government discrimination against their minorities, especially Roma...and in Hungary Romanians. The other candidates, like the Baltic nations are all quite racist against the Russian minority...in some places like Estonia Russians make up 38%. Georgia has some of the worst possible records, period.

[SodiumWarthog]

One wonders what the Chinese leadership might be thinking just now.

NaW.
(Posting it would require a lot of '*', '@' and '#'s...)

[ChadGore]

This great :)

[Savage Beast]

This is wonderful news. It is also China's nightmare--and Daschle's.

Keep up the good work, George W.!

[Savage Beast]

Are you the real Aspasia...I mean the one who wrote that speech for Pericles'?