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Mon Sep-18-06 01:22 PM
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Warsaw To Get Statue Of Ex-President Reagan |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091800320.htmlWARSAW (Reuters) - Polish admirers of Ronald Reagan plan to raise a statue of the former U.S president in Warsaw, where he is revered for his role in the downfall of communism in Europe.
The 3.5-meter (3.8-yard) stone-and-bronze statue will stand across from the U.S. Embassy, the head of the group raising money for the memorial said on Monday. The group includes Poles living in Poland, Canada and the United States....
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Mon Sep-18-06 01:24 PM
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Mon Sep-18-06 01:24 PM
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We're erecting it over there so we don't have to erect it here.
Haven't the Poles suffered enough?
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Mon Sep-18-06 05:28 PM
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11. I think we just ran out of things to name |
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after him. Is there any town without a Reagan Blvd, Reagan library or Reagan conference center? Yeesh, enough is enough.
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Mon Sep-18-06 01:28 PM
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Polish pigeons rejoice! n/t |
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Mon Sep-18-06 01:28 PM
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3. Wouldn't They Like A Federal Building, An Airport & An Aircraft Carrier? |
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While we're at it, they can have the U.S.S. George H. W. Bush - unles we want to re-name it "The Father Of Failure" in 2007.
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Mon Sep-18-06 01:28 PM
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4. Better them than us... |
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although I'm very surprised we don't have one yet.
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Mon Sep-18-06 01:36 PM
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Edited on Mon Sep-18-06 01:37 PM by Old Crusoe
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Mon Sep-18-06 01:37 PM
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6. Put a moat around it. And a big umbrella. Put the cowboy on a horse. And a |
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statue with Nancy and her adoration deer in the headlights gaze.
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Mon Sep-18-06 01:45 PM
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7. Isn't there a big public toilet across from the US Embassy? |
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Mon Sep-18-06 03:01 PM
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8. They should have a statue of Steve Colbert |
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Mon Sep-18-06 03:11 PM
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9. Lech Walesa and the Polish Pope did the job |
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Edited on Mon Sep-18-06 03:12 PM by qwertyMike
Reagan and the White House just drooled and watched it happen.
The Military-Industrial complex shit it's pants.
Gorbachev let it happen.
PS: I have a piece of the Berlin wall :)
Mike
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Mon Sep-18-06 05:26 PM
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Edited on Mon Sep-18-06 05:27 PM by NOLADEM
After the assassination, Reagan would sleep through meetings, drool, fall asleep during a sentence, forget the names of his direct co-workers and cabinet, ask hilariously inane questions, babble, and generally act like an 80 year old man who had been nearly killed by a bullet.
The man had no role in freeing Poland other than not fucking it up. Gorbachev was THE instrumental figure in this, because he let it happen. He did nothing to stop the breakup of the Soviet Union, and so populist movements were allowed to blossom where they had not before.
Those crediting Reagan for the Berlin Wall falling are gullible, partisan stooges. That speech Reagan gave at the Wall would have never occurred if the Soviets truly opposed it.
They could no longer afford to financially support their crumbling empire, so the Gorbachev administration made a calculated decision to look like liberators in an attempt to keep the dissolution from cascading into a regional war. And it worked, largely.
As far as the statue goes, insert Polish joke here.
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Mon Sep-18-06 05:44 PM
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13. To Give Credit Where Credit Is Due |
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The man had no role in freeing Poland other than not fucking it up.
That's still an improvement over the current Deciduator, er, Decider.
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Mon Sep-18-06 06:23 PM
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Mon Sep-18-06 06:41 PM
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16. You are right about Gorbachev, |
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but you will never see Poles willingly put up a statue of a Russian in their country. Poland's (understandable) hatred of Russia has very long historical roots.
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Mon Sep-18-06 06:56 PM
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it was about that time that the Alzheimer's can get.
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Mon Sep-18-06 05:30 PM
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12. They can bury that statue in the yard if they need to sell the land |
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Mon Sep-18-06 06:39 PM
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15. Sign Over Reagan's Head..."WHERE AM... I?" |
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Mon Sep-18-06 06:56 PM
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that someone is looking out for the excretory needs of pigeons.
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