Polish Election Winners Pledge Quick Iraq Pullout
Eric Garris,
October 21, 2007
In an upset, Polish voters elected a pro-business opposition party pledged to pull Polish troops out of Iraq this year.
Polish Election Winners Pledge Quick Iraq Pullout
In an upset, Polish voters elected a pro-business opposition party pledged to pull Polish troops out of Iraq this year.
ChrisBaker
October 21st, 2007 at 9:10 pm
We’ll see what happens. Of course, Poland doesn’t have the massive Israeli lobby that this country has.
Green Guy
October 21st, 2007 at 9:18 pm
It could also mean an end to the moronic missile defence scheme.
dan
October 21st, 2007 at 9:21 pm
I guess you can forget Poland now. Sweet!
John Lowell
October 21st, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Yes, that would seem more likely now. Would that the Czechs develop similar spine.
I read today of Einsatzgruppenfeuhrer McCain’s crude denunciations of Putin at the Republican debate. Something like, “When I look into Putin’s eyes all I see are three letters: KGB”. When I look into McCain’s eyes all I can see is the unrestrained hostility that so utterly dominates him as a human being. One gets the impression that he’s always just a couple of drinks away from child abuse. Can you imagine him at the helm cutting loose at some diplomatic function with the kind of foul language he’s used on the floor of the Senate? Beside being Plato’s perfect phoney, John McCain is a dangerous man. Would that his currently being in eclipse remain fixed.
John Lowell
Rowan Berkeley
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:50 am
Stand by for a gigantic smear job alleging antisemitic catholic religious hierarchy influence on new govt.
Silent Empire
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:05 am
Don’t get your hopes up. The winning party’s stance on missile base is “bargain for more”. In the end i wager they will agree to host the base for military support.
Joel M. Levy
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:10 am
If Poland pulls out its 12 men contingent of Iraq, who is going to remain to clean the US latrines?
SamDi
October 22nd, 2007 at 6:38 am
The sooner their military are pulled out, the better. Their public has spoken and their new government responded to their decision.
Bob
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:03 am
Poland’s contingent in Iraq is now 900 men strong. They clean their own latrines
Ardavast Avakian
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:00 am
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
Orlando, Florida Oct 21, 2007
PAUL 34
HUCKABEE 27
GUILIANI 12
ROMNEY 10
THOMPSON 9
McCAIN 5
HUNTER 1
mike
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:07 am
John Lowell ,You perfectly articulated what I couldn’t put into words about this bogus,blow heart loon.Not only has he given several different versions of his capture,captivity,and treatment in Vietnam,but by his own words said “I’m a war criminal,I’ve bombed innocent women ,and children”. Then came home,cheated on,and divorced a wife that remained loyal,and long suffering through it all.
And we don’t have time to go into the damage done to his own country by his second captivity i.e his surrender to the Israeli lobby,(the real reason for his tough guy bomb-em now retoric) but “like father,like son” remember how his father threaten crew members of the USS Liberty while helping to squash all inquires into that slaughter.Unfortunatly the suffering,and incineraton this malevolent likunik shill has been advocating is turning out to be much worse than the Liberty. Keep up your great analysis. mike
Mark Williams
October 22nd, 2007 at 8:54 am
Watch the neocons turn on a dime, praising France as the “New New Europe”, and denouncing Poland as the anti-Semitic “Old New Europe”.
Roland Maruska
October 22nd, 2007 at 11:40 am
I keep thinking of those 900 FBI files on Republicans that were misappropriated by the Clinton administration. Did Clinton sell copies to Tel Aviv in exchange for campaign cash? Why didn’t the Republican Party, which has shown itself so ready to be tough on Iraqi freedom fighters and American war dissenters, go after the folks who borrowed those files? Of whom are they afraid and why? Granted that AIPAC can be dangerous to one’s political health, but still..
Marycatherine Barton
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Way to go, Polish people. You know how to vote.
samuel burke
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:48 pm
congratulations to the polish nation, now take it to the next level and repudiate capitalist neoliberalism.
you-know-who
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:01 pm
unfortunately, don’t count on the quick withdrawal scenario. it’s just politics, PO is a right-centrist party which is actually ok with the 10 rockets and some troops remaining until 2009 (you’ll see how they change from 2007 to 2008 to 2009, just watch it!).
It’s just that they are not complete crazies like kaczynskis and don’t want to suck up to bush for litearally nothing. they’ll negotiate their price: non-visa entry or patriot missiles or something like that.
in fact, it’s bad. the new gov. plans to bring in the old minister of defence, radek sikorski, a well known figure at pnac, aipac, and capitol. he once was in afghanistan, fighting communists together with al qaida. he baught the delapidates f-16s, and got polish units into iraq. and now he’s gonna be a foreign affairs minister. why?
polish politics is driven by anti-russian sentiments, and they all think that us will rescue them if they overdo their antirussian politics. how silly, same dreams as with churchill and the french in the summer of 1939. u.s. is only afraid of those who have icbm’s and poland is just a forward base for geopolitics. bush and putin are pals. but, unlike in the original plan, u.s. will have to actually pay some rent for poland’s services. not much, but they’ll have to. sorry to disappoint you, if i have done so.
i actually hate that sikorski part although i voted for the civic platform party.
you-know-who
October 22nd, 2007 at 2:16 pm
oh, and about that comment that poland doesn’t have a jewish lobby? well, again i don’t want to disenchant. but the fact that polish foreign policy has been perfectly alligned with the us-raeli policies for more than one election cycle is not entirely a coincidence.
you know, there are no chasidic or orthodox jews walking the steets of warsaw (except for some newcomers recently), but lots of half-assimilated ones, often in very high places, the actual players behind the scenes. there’s no ipac there’s no policy documents that will spell out the support of israel as the real goal, because that wouldn’t go down well with the population.
things are dressed up as, say, anti-putin policy, and that’s totally acceptable for poles. i would be very very surprised to see any real change in the orientation of poland’s foreing affairs, especially not if the polish neocon sikorsky is back. we’ll see if he get’s the job. he’s already been mentioned by tusk, but not officially.
Otto Reich
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:18 am
Nasty anti-slavic comment by a Zionist fanantic zio-fascist. Intended to ridicule any independence from the zionist agenda by one of it’s thought police. Such expressions of cultural imperialism endangers good Jews and good Israelis. If Israelis ever attained to a transparent understanding of the founding of the entity going by the name of the ancient nation of Israel and live in Torah rather than the demonic musings of the traditions , those against them would cease to resist. Peace is attained through righteousness and righeousness is summed up in the golden rule. The present actions and agenda of the zionist state is unrighteous both in regard to the legitimate inhabitants of Palestine and the citizens of other nations as they continue to attempt to dominate , decieve , through undemocratic political devices. These actions over the centuries have been the basic for the antagonism towards the chosen people. A few trouble makers endanger the majority of rest of the people. Resorting to tribalism and racism as a means of survival has not served the Jewish people. Peace
john q public
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:39 am
Poland will leave Nato declaring its neutrality between Putin and BushBrown.
rex
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:01 pm
In Poland Israeli lobby is bigger than in USA.
Radek Sikorski – from American Enterprise Institute (Neocon) is going to by Polish Foreign Minister.
romanghost
October 23rd, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I guess Poland doesn’t have the Diebold voting mis-calculators in place yet.
Polish American
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I guess Poland doesn’t have the Diebold voting mis-calculators in place yet.
So many jokes. So little time.
But forget Poland. They’ll take the US missiles. They just want to charge a bit more for keeping them. At least that’s rational.
Vassili
October 24th, 2007 at 7:11 am
I don’t think so. This is the US/Russia matter. I do not believe in notion of “democracy” even in the US (need to see the end of Iraq war first), much less so in Poland.
I wish, but I doubt.
Vassili
October 24th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Being Russian I could never understand the misguided souls of our Polish brothers (and even more importantly systers :-) – why the hell they are so bound to succombing to the West?
Granted, Poland was in the divide, cut, paste process for centuries, but why only Russia is blamed for that? The only plausable theory is that people hate relatives more then strangers, even if they abuse them more.