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demobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-05-07 03:29 AM
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Bush Getting Bored with Middle East; Trying to Restart Cold War with Russia
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

Evidently not content with turning the entire Middle East into a crisis zone, President Bush seems intent on provoking a second round of the Cold War before he leaves office. It's gotten so bad that an increasingly Stalinistic Vladimir Putin has started accusing us of provoking an "arms race" and conducting "imperialism" in global affairs.

In response to Bush's insistence on creating a missile defense shield, Russia has begun testing "a new ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads." Yep, that means a single Russian attack will have multiple times the destructiveness after our defenses fail to work and all the warheads get through.

It's not just war with the Russians themselves we have to worry about: Russia has ties to many groups and nations we aren't too friendly with. For example, they made a nuclear deal with Iran in 2005 and may have leaked our Iraq war plan to Saddam. Our enemies will feel compelled to join the new global arms race, and Russia may well be all too happy to help them.

Full article here: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/218
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-05-07 04:06 AM
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1.  people, some of them,already know..
Edited on Tue Jun-05-07 04:42 AM by undergroundpanther
How is this supposedly bankrupt Russia getting money for this military buildup?
Could it be that Nikita Kruschev was correct when, as I understand it, he stated in his May 5, 1962 speech before the Soviet Union’s Party Congress that the World Soviet could "bury the Capitalists of the West" and that there would be no need for Soviet forces to engage America and her NATO allies in an all-out nuclear conflict because capitalistic greed and avarice would provide all of the advantage that the Soviet forces would require? Is all this trade going on between Western investors and Russian entrepreneurs, as well as the billions in nuclear disarmament dollars carelessly donated by the American government, actually sowing the seeds for the future destruction of America and her NATO allies?

It is hard to fathom that we, in the West, could be so foolish. But Mr. Nyquist asks the obvious question and gathers some chilling answers from former members of the Russian military machine: Why is a supposedly bankrupt country spending its precious capital on war preparations?
http://www.ncoic.com/coldwar.htm

Russia seeks its former level of international status (the status accorded to the former Soviet Union)--to include a larger share of global markets (arms) and greater influence in the international decision-making process. One of the main irritations expressed by Russia's political community is frustration over its diminished international stature in the post-Cold War order. Moreover, there is a high degree of anger over the decline in Russia's share of the international arms market. Many Russian leaders claim that much of the United States' criticism and pressure to halt potential Russian arms sales to so-called rogue nations, in actuality, is part of a U.S. ploy to dominate the global arms market. Russians look at the increase in U.S. arms market share and complain that the United States is trying to destroy Russia's defense industries and gain a monopoly for its own industries. As a result, Russia's political community is becoming much more adamant regarding Russia' right to sell arms to whomever it wishes.
http://www.ifpa.org/publications/archives/2010/chapter2.htm

Interesting considering...

The decision was not made in a torch-lit cave in Afghanistan, nor in a nondescript safe-house in Iraq. Implementing the plan would involve the highest officials of the United States government. The centerpiece of the plan is a portable nuclear weapon manufactured in the former Soviet Union. A tame “terrorist”, destined no doubt to be an eventual patsy, arranged for the bomb’s transport by sea, and the ship carrying it entered Galveston Bay on January 25, 2006. At this time the device remains hidden on board the ship that brought it, a freighter docked in or near the port of Texas City, about thirty minutes south of Houston, and only ten miles from the island city of Galveston.
http://www.ken-welch.com/PageOne.html

Really interesting considering THIS:
New Rural Sales Pitch: Work Outside D.C.'s Fallout Zone
Winchester and its neighbors along Interstate 81 in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley have much to recommend themselves to potential employers, including a low cost of living, access to a major highway and views of the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains.
More recently, though, the area has been successfully trumpeting another attribute: It is just outside the "blast zone."

Development is booming along Interstate 81 near Winchester, Va., as federal agencies move to relocate offices.
In a little-noticed migration with implications for both greater Washington and the valley, several federal agencies, including the FBI, are relocating operations to the I-81 corridor
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/25/AR2006122500637.html
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If Iran and Iraq won't willingly play war with Bush, Maybe Bush will Goad Russia or Iraq into war with himself . Cold or Hot. What is a tyrant psychopath to do if no one wants to play war with him?
He will INSTIGATE a war with some 9/11 type of a "catalyzing event".
A nuke in DC planted by the Russians and those evil communists....That'll get the dumb and desperate American poor people to enlist to die. The tyrant mentality says,Let the young and poor die over there... (Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Russia etc.)
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“I heard about this danger not only at the White House but from other pro-family leaders that I met during that week in Washington,” said. “Many people in a position to know are talking about the possibility of losing a city to nuclear or biological or chemical attack. And if we can lose one we can lose ten.“If we can lose ten we can lose a hundred,” he added, “especially if North Korea and Russia and China pile on.”
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/10810.htm


6 years bush has wanted to attack Iran.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/46654/

And of Course Over at the G8 summit of the fattest of piggies and most evil war criminals..meeting..

President Vladimir Putin will arrive in this resort on Wednesday after issuing a Cold War-style warning that Russia will revert to targeting missiles on Europe if the United States goes ahead with building a missile shield near its borders.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/1530
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Some of this shit is stirred ..So the wealthy won't have to fight the angry poor over here..The dead poor overseas won't be alive to be demanding jobs at wages the wealthy don't feel like paying them.
So enlisting looks looks much more appealing after a bomb in DC
goes off and the rhetoric hits the roof.
So the poor and angry as in younger males with guts, guns and anger, won't be a threat to the wealthy HERE if they can be redirected to hate someone else preferably overseas..And the con game goes on.
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-05-07 04:16 AM
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2. Russia can't regain "stature" without a firm political basis.
If Putin adopted a progressive standpoint, then developing countries would look to Russia for help and leadership. But that is so far not the case.
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undergroundpanther Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-05-07 04:49 AM
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3. Power for powers sake
War is more appealing to psychopaths than
progressive standpoints ,

To psychopaths,and most"leaders" are psychopaths, War is more fun than helping weak developing countries out so these powerless and bankrupt countries would look to them for help and leadership when psychopaths have no interest in caring about strengthening weaker nations..
A psychopath wants the power now and to do as little work himself as he can to get at that power. Easier to lob a nuke at some other country or send other peoples children to die there... than to actually HELP other countries improve the lives of thier peoples.Helping the poor is for weak countries and"liberal" bleeding heart wimps, in the psychopath tyrants mind..
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luckyleftyme2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-05-07 04:56 AM
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4. elect a stooge -reap what you vote

what else can you expect from a puppet!
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demobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-05-07 05:24 PM
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5. Bush isn't a stooge
He's a very calculating businessman who will do anything to personally profit, including inflaming the whole planet. He has no conscience - he's an addict - addicted to power - and behaves exactly like an addict.
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demobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-05-07 06:24 PM
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6. kick
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