'Sarkozy to Putin: ‘Do you want to end up like Bush?’
The London Times’ Charles Bremner has identified one positive aspect of President Bush’s foreign policy legacy:
With Russian tanks only 30 miles from Tbilisi on August 12, Mr. Sarkozy told Mr. Putin that the world would not accept the overthrow of Georgia’s Government. According to [Sarkozy’s chief diplomatic adviser, Jean-David] Levitte, the Russian seemed unconcerned by international reaction. “I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls,” Mr. Putin declared.
Mr. Sarkozy thought he had misheard. “Hang him?” — he asked. “Why not?” Mr. Putin replied. “The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein.”
Mr. Sarkozy, using the familiar tu, tried to reason with him: “Yes but do you want to end up like [President] Bush?” Mr. Putin was briefly lost for words, then said: “Ah — you have scored a point there.”
Fear of “ending up like Bush” now functions as a deterrent.'
From Wiki: "In response to Westmoreland's comment, social commentator and comic Stephen Colbert referred to Westmoreland as a "stupid cracker" on his show The Colbert Report on September 5, 2008. In the same show, in an update of a "Better Know a District" segment, Westmoreland admitted to Colbert that in the "do-nothing Congress" he was the "do-nothingest" Republican, that he voted against providing relief to Hurricane Katrina victims, and that he advocates eliminating the United States Department of Education. Colbert also replayed the ten commandments interview from May 2006. "
]]>I worked in Kosovo as an DIA interpreter soon after the conflict ended and Clark was very well-respected by many including Americans and Kosovars.
]]>I truly hope Mr. Allen is recognized for his hard work.
Thank you for those lovely photos.
Campaign Addicts Now Confront the Morning After
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/106105/Campaign-Addicts-Now-Confront-the-Morning-After
You have my support. Your post was so moving.
I cannot in any way shape or form understand why there are so many hatefully ignorant comments being left by kooks. Perhaps, once they've cooled down and had an opportunity to fully comprehend this new beginning for our country, we can welcome them and find commonality between us instead of the disparities.
]]>My soldier husband in Iraq is happy and excited to see a fellow Chicagoan as the new president.
]]>I can't stop the tears either. Words don't come easily now.
This is a new beginning.
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It's a happy day and I'm feeling pretty darn good.
]]>And thank your wife for me for doing her part to GOTV.
May God keep your son safe and well in Afghanistan.
I grew up there!
My mother always took my sister and me to the voting booth as kids.
This historic year I brought my son to the booth with me.
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I had an aunt that lived in Sterling Hts. I'm from Dearborn originally. Motown Rocks!!!
My husband is a soldier who is on his second deployment to Iraq and he voted last week by mail. He's a Chicago native and voted for Obama, of course.
]]>Thank you for including your child in our nation's voting process.
]]>My husband is a SGT but he's 40 and from Chicago originally. He's on his second deployment to Iraq but he voted for Obama last week by mail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsrkFNodBGQ
Kevin Rudolf w/LiL Wayne
]]>If you notice, there are a lot less comments than there usually is(are?)
]]>Has anyone else had the same problem this morning?
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