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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

gisterme - 11:44pm Sep 13, 2001 EST (#9031 of 9038)

rshowalter wrote ( rshowalter 9/13/01 11:21pm ): "...Condoleezza, you don't behave well under fire..."

HaaaaHaHaha, HeeHe. Robert, I sincerely doubt that anybody from the administration would have time to fart around with an insignificant, backwater forum like this during this time of national crisis. I certainly hope not, except, of course, to read gisterme's suggestions about how to defeat terrorists. :-)

Ho,ho,ahhhh.

Even if Condoleeza Rice grew a beard like mine, she'd likely not be mistaken for Santa Clause. Bwahahaha! Thanks of the comic relief, Robert. Your post hit me right in the funny-bone.

snurg, sicker...

Robert, you are really persistant with your whacky identity fetish. Is it becoming an obsession? Do you do this to make yourself feel more important? You may need help more than aaphrodite!

almarst-2001 - 11:49pm Sep 13, 2001 EST (#9032 of 9038)

WHERE IS THE DEMOCRACY GONE? - http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/09/13/15104.html

"With all respect to the feelings of the American people: sometimes the materials and reports of mass media are really shocking. Some shouts of the Americans on the net are just disgusting. It was a couple of days ago when you blamed Russia for the inhuman policy in Chechnya, you criticized Moscow because the militia men were checking people’s documents everywhere in the streets. You called the Chechens “separatists” and had meetings with emissaries of the “independent republic” at the Department of State.

You bombed Yugoslavia which was running the policy of “genocide” in Kosovo. Now the “rebels” of Kosovo were stabbing the peacemakers in their motherland and seizing Macedonia.

So now you are ready to execute the Palestinians without any trial or investigation. You are calling upon everyone “just to destroy those scoundrels, to kill everyone, women and children, a bullet in the head, to tear them into pieces, to exterminate them”. Are you ready for genocide being the protectors of the innocent and the oppressed? “I wish our government could start the military operation as soon as possible. I would personally remove Afghanistan from the Earth, right on the night of that day, without even landing there. I would then start the overnight incursion in Palestine not leaving anyone alive there - either women or children. Any Arab country which would let out a squeak will lose its capital the same day. NATO would announce its support to America’s reaction but the opinions of other countries that are dependent on America’s economic assistance are not interesting to me”. This is an opinion from one of our readers from New York.

And here is a text which has just been sent by the Interfax news agency: “Dozens of attacks on the Moslems were registered in the USA and in Canada after the acts of terrorism which happened this Tuesday. Police stopped 300 people which were trying to arrange a demonstration near the mosque. Unknown people threw a bomb in the center where the people of the Arab community gathered – this happened in Chicago as well. A drunk 75-year-old man was persistently following a woman from Pakistan threatening to kill her for “destruction of his country”. Spokesmen for Kuwait’s embassy in the USA said the Kuwait’s nationals who attended American schools were insulted.

How much is left for the first step of America’s execution? One hour, two, three? If such material which is now published by The New York Times had appeared on the pages of some Russian papers, there would have been warnings following from the State Committee for Press; licences could be withdrawn too.

But it is not a matter of sanctions. There was no material of this kind in the Russian press which unfortunately can not be said about the American media.

Unknown terrorists destroyed the myth about democracy and tolerance, the myth about the only multi-national country in the world in which there was no nationalism or chauvinism. Show your true colors."

gisterme - 11:52pm Sep 13, 2001 EST (#9033 of 9038)

almarst...

I'll answer a bit later. I want to do a little research on the numbers you've given. 300 schools doesn't sound reasonable although I'll check. If you would, please post links to the sources of your data. I'm not ignoring you although you know I won't agrue too much about that. It's a different kind of issue than an unprovoked attack.

At the moment, I've got to take a break to give myself a chance to stop laughing. As much as Robert gets under my skin at times, his last post gave me the first occasion for a good laugh since Tuesday morning! That's a long time for Santa. :-)> He he. The visual of Condoleeza Rice in a red suit with a big beard and boots is just stunning! Hahaha...

almarst-2001 - 12:00am Sep 14, 2001 EST (#9034 of 9038)

Bin Laden comes home to roost - http://msnbc.com/news/190144.asp?cp1=1

His CIA ties are only the beginning of a woeful story...

lunarchick - 02:06am Sep 14, 2001 EST (#9035 of 9038)
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The CIA, ever mindful of the need to justify its “mission,” had conclusive evidence by the mid-1980s of the deepening crisis of infrastructure within the Soviet Union. The CIA, as its deputy director William Gates acknowledged under congressional questioning in 1992, had decided to keep that evidence from President Reagan and his top advisors and instead continued to grossly exaggerate Soviet military and technological capabilities in its annual “Soviet Military Power” report right up to 1990. Given that context, a decision was made to provide America’s potential enemies with the arms, money - and most importantly - the knowledge of how to run a war of attrition violent and well-organized enough to humble a superpower. That decision is coming home to roost.

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