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To: mporter345
I saw John Paul II while he was alive. I read his works. I don't know about sainthood, but Karol Wotyla was one of the great men of the Twentieth Century. He was one of the Great Three of the 1980s who crushed Soviet Communism, with Reagan and Thatcher.
3 posted on 01/15/2011 6:21:08 AM PST by GAB-1955 (I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
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To: GAB-1955

Yes he was extremely influential, no doubt. But Saint, so fast?


4 posted on 01/15/2011 6:30:09 AM PST by mporter345
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To: GAB-1955
re: He was one of the Great Three of the 1980s who crushed Soviet Communism

Get real! Come back to reality my freind, we're going to need you. Disconnect yourself from the mass media's brainwashing news for the sheeple.

Here’s another headline on FR:

Russia launches arms race with new intercontinental ballistic missile

Friday, January 14, 2011 5:04:01 PM · by george76

Telegraph ^ | 14 Jan 2011 | Andrew Osborn

Russia is developing a replacement for the world’s most devastating intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a move that risks reviving a global nuclear arms race. the head of Rosobshemash said the new missile would be capable of overcoming any nuclear missile shield that the Americans or indeed anyone else might build. “This applies in the fullest sense to the USA’s anti-missile defence system and to Nato’s (planned) European missile defence system,” said Artur Usenkov. Russia is developing the new missile despite recently negotiating a new landmark Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with the United States which will see both countries make...

6 posted on 01/15/2011 9:07:46 AM PST by verdugo
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