"Gentleman (and comrade), when the operational range of your frontline bomber is 14,000 miles, and when they get there they can drop half their bombs within a six foot circle of error, and no one has an air defense system or air force that can touch you, you DO already rule the world. It's simply a question of when and where you need to prove it to the more slow-witted."
"...Yes, there is continuity and pattern in history, but there is also change. We live in the time of change."
"The American Republic is not riding the tide of history; it IS the tide of history. We are, in the next 20 years, going to see the culmination of the process begun when Alexander first came ashore in Asia: the unification of the world under the Western Cultural system. That system will triumph because it is the only one that recognizes and operates on the fact the determinative unit of human destiny is the individual, not religion, race, class, sex, ethnicity or anything else. None can resist that truth for long; it sweeps all before it."
"Our glorious and imperial republic has not wiped out, with its own blood and treasure, the stain of slavery, plowed under the Habsburgs and Hohenzollerns, flattened imperial Japan, fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, and ground down the false dogma of communism -- we have NOT done all that, to be stopped now by a bunch of wild-eyed pistol-wavers from the 13th century. Men who think it a sagacious, pro-family move to remove the clitorises of pre-turn girls; who won't keep dogs as pets because they view those animals as "unclean," but who at the same time think nothing of wiping their own butts with their own bare hands -- such people have no hold on history or our national destiny."
Ty Bomba - 11:08am Mar 26, 2002
This comment tells it all. Everyone knows Iraq HAS weapons of mass destruction, and that they will never accept an inspection program that could actually result in their elimination.
Since all the players involved know this, Ivanov is sending a different message than appears on the surface. The real message is that Russia will not support Iraq when we attack.
Wrong. They are exhausted. Time to move on to 'politics by other means'.
And the attacker is? ........Door A, Door B or Door C?