Posted on 03/18/2003 4:06:33 AM PST by dmcg_98
My grandfather was a civil engineer during WWII. When he refused to help rebuild a railroad bridge that had been blown up by the resistance, Nazis came to my father's house, took my grandfather away, and shot him.
Overall, my father lost both parents and a brother during the war. His sister survived, but lived the best years of her life under a repressive communist regime. He joined up with a Polish regiment organized by the British and ended up in England after the war. He told me that he came to the US because he believed that the US was the only country that would fight the communists. He thought the British would eventually cave.
Needless to say, he taught me everything I ever needed to know about socialists and communists. It helped me survive the liberal crap they shoveled me in government school.
LOL! Is that the one that's the equivalent of a Fiat Panda? (which is the equivalent of an old Honda Civic with a lawnmower engine). I saw one carrying five or six people scaling a mountain on the Czech border zipping along at about 10 mph. They'd get passed by German tourists driving in Mercedes' at about 100 mph as horse drawn hay wagons crossed the road.
Hopefully they've begun enforcing their traffic laws since I was there in the early 90s.
That's baseless and disgusting.
All is well with the world - the latest polls show the British public is on side for the war, Blair won with a crushing majority in the Commons. As such, your nonsense means absolutely nothing to me now. Chirac has failed in his attempt to dislodge Blair.
Ivan
How do you figure?
To credit the EU with the peace Europe has enjoyed since WW2 is to commit the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Japan and South Korea, former enemies, have enjoyed peace since WW2 without political union. The real reason for peace is that Europe is no longer plagued with tryannical dictators, and it is rich. I do not know of a single example of modern, devloped democratic countries with commercial ties going to war with one another.
All the 20th century wars in Europe were conflicts between free and despotic countries.
Does not the fact that the EU is destroying your country's soveriegnty bother you? Does it not bother you that the EU is turning into a vast superstate imposing socialism on all member states? Does it not bother you that the EU is begining to chip away at cherished freedoms such as that of the press?
You don't need political union to have free trade, peace, or commercial ties. Just look at the US and Canada.
As I tell my relatives who still live in Poland, the EU is the new Soviet Union. Stay out of it!
You have the right to be disgusted by it but calling it baseless is like telling me that there is no such thing as gravity.
Those were the days. 8- )
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