Chinese, Russian, Central Asian leaders show off military might

[rodeodance]

Source: afp



Chinese, Russian, Central Asian leaders show off military might

by Nick Coleman 1 hour, 41 minutes ago
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070817/wl_asia_afp/russiachinacasia_070817145717
CHEBARKUL, Russia (AFP) - The presidents of Russia, China and four other Central Asian states attended unprecedented joint military exercises on Friday, intended as a display of strength to the West.


The vast show of firepower at a training ground in the Russian province of Chelyabinsk near the Kazakh border was the culmination of a nine-day exercise dubbed "Peace Mission 2007" that began in northwest China.

It involved some 6,000 personnel from China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan: the six members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).

A lone bugle player formally opened the exercises, and over a two-hour period helicopters, fighter jets and tanks went in hot pursuit and crushing some 1,000 heavily-armed "terrorists" who had taken over a village fabricated for the exercises.

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[krabigirl]

1. I love how they called it "Peace Mission 2007"

Looks like they are copying slogans that Bush would use.

[Danger Mouse]

2. Bush would be worried about this...

if he had a fucking brain.

[Posteritatis]

3. If Bush had a brain, the SCO probably wouldn't have to have been created. (nt)

[ohio2007]

4. The war game of 7,500 soldiers was not about fighting the US but

actually conducting a "raid on a village taken over by terrorist holding hostages"

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=49750&cl=2770243&ch=283293&src=news

No mention of Iran participating as previously posted on another thread

[Deja Q]

5. Okay, so everybody is strong.

What happens next, arm wrestling and beer chundering?

[brentspeak]

6. Wonderful, just great (not). Same kind of thing happened before both WWI and WWII

[sarcasmo]

7. Exactly, Thanks to our Dictator WWIII is on the horizon.