quote:Kom kom Lebed is pas vanaf 1997 dood en was voor die tijd ook politiek actief als Gouverneur en in de race als presidentskandidaat.
Op donderdag 8 januari 2004 15:07 schreef Sessy het volgende:[..]
nee, daar is hij niet dood genoeg voor.
quote:ROTFLOL
Op donderdag 8 januari 2004 15:16 schreef sjun het volgende:[..]
Kom kom Lebed is pas vanaf 1997 dood
quote:Die Clark was behoorlijk stom bezig in Kosovo, toen hij een Engelse generaal beval de Russen te blokkeren die op weg waren naar Pristina zei die Engelsman terecht dat Clark dood kon vallen en hij geen WOIII voor hem ging beginnen. Het alles-beter-dan-Bush argument kan je ook iemand opleveren die nog slechter is, hoe moeilijk je dat ook voor te stellen is.
Op donderdag 8 januari 2004 15:09 schreef Megumi het volgende:
In elk geval slechter dan Bush kan hij niet zijn. En met zijn Europese ervaring wordt met name de realtie met Duitsland en Frankrijk wellicht beter.
Maar van m'n amerikaanse vrienden heb ik vernomen dat als de tegenpartij kans maakt de verkiezingen te winnen, dit alleen met Clark is.
quote:Bush staat ruim aan kop vanwege de verschillende potentiele kandidaten bij de Democraten. De peilingen zijn nu compleet nutteloos. Wanneer de Democratische kandidaat bekend is, dan kan je er wat van zeggen.
Op donderdag 8 januari 2004 15:27 schreef 001 het volgende:
In de polls staat Bush nog steeds ruim aan kop, en omdat het economisch weer de goede kant opgaat met Amerika, zal Bush makkelijk herkozen worden. Het zijn de amerikanen die hun president kiezen, en niet die linkse slappe handel hier in europa.
quote:In 2002, hij was mijn idool en absoluut niet te vergelijken met Clark
Op donderdag 8 januari 2004 15:16 schreef sjun het volgende:Kom kom Lebed is pas vanaf 1997 dood en was voor die tijd ook politiek actief als Gouverneur en in de race als presidentskandidaat.
quote:Ja, maar is geen militair.
Op donderdag 8 januari 2004 14:10 schreef Sessy het volgende:
OH OH OH! Wacht!
In Amerika en Rusland is de president de Opperbevelhebber over de luchtmacht, marine, en het leger.
quote:Ik heb goed nieuws voor je, zijn piloten zijn veroordeeld tot gevangenisstraf (hoeveel weet ik niet meer precies)
Op donderdag 8 januari 2004 19:16 schreef BAZZA het volgende:[..]
In 2002, hij was mijn idool en absoluut niet te vergelijken met Clark
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Lebed was een beer en Clark is een eekhoorn.
quote:Ik krijg steeds meer het idee dat Poetin en/of zijn cirkel erachter zit(ten) en dat het gewoon sabotage was
Op donderdag 8 januari 2004 19:21 schreef Sessy het volgende:
Ik heb goed nieuws voor je, zijn piloten zijn veroordeeld tot gevangenisstraf (hoeveel weet ik niet meer precies)
quote:Wie was de enige andere man waar het volk van Rusland echt enig vertrouwen in had? Lebed.
Op donderdag 8 januari 2004 19:25 schreef Sessy het volgende:
Hmm? Waarom? Ik moet zeggen dat ik niet zo veel over de man weet, maar was hij niet juist voor de oorlog?
Het is maar een theorie hoor.
Poetin wordt van wel meer dingen beschuldigd, van de organisatie van de terroristische aanslagen o.a., maar volgens mij is dat gewoon gelul, er zijn een aantal partijen in Rusland op dit moment met een meer dan verdacht agenda die er baat bij hebben hem zwart te maken.
De krachtenverdeling is op dit moment als volgt
25% - "bereid om onder rode vlaggen te gaan marcheren"
35 % - voor een middelkoers
24% - voor een extreem rechtse koers
De rest is ofwel voor de kleine liberalistische en "grijze" en "groene" partijen die het niet tot de Duma hebben gebracht, ofwel ze stemmen helemaal niet of "tegen iedereen" en daarom nemen wij ze even niet mee in onze berekeningen.
Als je naar de bovenstaande percentages kijkt, wordt ook meteen het belang van een centristisch aangelegde president duidelijk, dat was hij in zijn schooltijd nog (in het poezieboekje van een klasgenootje: "Leef nooit helemaal voor jezelf of helemaal voor anderen, en onthoudt dat alles wat je doet met mate moet zijn, anders gaat het fout" en dat is hij nog steeds, hij is niet links of rechts, al is hij duidelijk wel autoritair bezig, met de harde hand aan het regeren.
Maar stel nou voor dat Poetin wegvalt, dan zal de strijd gaan tussen Zjirinovski, Hakamada, en de communisten. Eventueel de kandidaat van Vaderland.
En dan wint Zjirinovski. En dan krijgt Rusland een man aan het stuur, ik citeer:
"George - je bent een schijtcowboy, leg je patronen weg, HOER, En vergeet je papa, wij hadden ook zo'n klootzak die zich te veel aan overgrootopa hechtte, en hij heeft heel de sovietunie kapotgemaakt."
"De dollar is een vuil, groen papiertje!"
"Jullie laatste president, was een HOER, hij heeft zich op zijn werkplek laten pijpen, stelletje homos, hij is helemaal fucking crazy, om zich door een of andere hoer, slet, in zijn werkkamer te laten pijpen! Wat voor een kutpresident, hij kan oprotten! Aftrekkers, pedofielen, homos!"
"Wil je mijn raket zien, hoer?! Wij maken met onze wapens heel je land kapot, denk na met wie je grappen uithaalt, hoer! Laat Bagdad in rust, laat ons liever samen Tbilisi (Georgie) platmaken!!!"
"We maken onze vijanden morsdood!"
"Al die rijke joden, corrupte dienders, en bankeigenaren, wij zullen ze allemaal verbannen (lees: naar siberische werkkampen sturen)!"
Het is de man die een standbeeld van zichzelf wil neerzetten op de plaats waar in de Communistische tijden het standbeeld stond voor de man die de 2de ergste man na Stalin was!!!
[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door Sessy op 08-01-2004 20:05]
Maar wel een enge gedachte hoor dat die man ooit de macht zou kunnen krijgen mocht Putin van de trap vallen of iets dergelijks, maja dan zal de FSB hem wel een enkeltje richting de eeuwige jachtvelden geven want met die malloot aan het stuur kun je het vertrouwen van investeerders wel gedag zeggen
quote:Zijn partij is eerste geworden in Magadan en het verre oosten.
Op donderdag 8 januari 2004 20:59 schreef BAZZA het volgende:
Maar wel een enge gedachte hoor dat die man ooit de macht zou kunnen krijgen
quote:Ho is, ik ben het gewoon met Michael Moore eens
Wednesday, January 14th, 2004
I’ll Be Voting For Wesley Clark / Good-Bye Mr. Bush — by Michael MooreMany of you have written to me in the past months asking, "Who are you going to vote for this year?"
I have decided to cast my vote in the primary for Wesley Clark. That's right, a peacenik is voting for a general. What a country!
I believe that Wesley Clark will end this war. He will make the rich pay their fair share of taxes. He will stand up for the rights of women, African Americans, and the working people of this country.
And he will cream George W. Bush.
I have met Clark and spoken to him on a number of occasions, feeling him out on the issues but, more importantly, getting a sense of him as a human being. And I have to tell you I have found him to be the real deal, someone whom I'm convinced all of you would like, both as a person and as the individual leading this country. He is an honest, decent, honorable man who would be a breath of fresh air in the White House. He is clearly not a professional politician. He is clearly not from Park Avenue. And he is clearly the absolute best hope we have of defeating George W. Bush.
This is not to say the other candidates won't be able to beat Bush, and I will work enthusiastically for any of the non-Lieberman 8 who might get the nomination. But I must tell you, after completing my recent 43-city tour of this country, I came to the conclusion that Clark has the best chance of beating Bush. He is going to inspire the independents and the undecided to come our way. The hard core (like us) already have their minds made up. It's the fence sitters who will decide this election.
The decision in November is going to come down to 15 states and just a few percentage points. So, I had to ask myself -- and I want you to honestly ask yourselves -- who has the BEST chance of winning Florida, West Virginia, Arizona, Nevada, Missouri, Ohio? Because THAT is the only thing that is going to matter in the end. You know the answer -- and it ain't you or me or our good internet doctor.
This is not about voting for who is more anti-war or who was anti-war first or who the media has already anointed. It is about backing a candidate that shares our values AND can communicate them to Middle America. I am convinced that the surest slam dunk to remove Bush is with a four-star-general-top-of-his-class-at-West-Point-Rhodes-Scholar-Medal-of-Freedom-winning-gun-owner-from-the-South -- who also, by chance, happens to be pro-choice, pro environment, and anti-war. You don't get handed a gift like this very often. I hope the liberal/left is wise enough to accept it. It's hard, when you're so used to losing, to think that this time you can actually win. It is Clark who stands the best chance -- maybe the only chance -- to win those Southern and Midwestern states that we MUST win in order to accomplish Bush Removal. And if what I have just said is true, then we have no choice but to get behind the one who can make this happen.
There are times to vote to make a statement, there are times to vote for the underdog and there are times to vote to save the country from catastrophe. This time we can and must do all three. I still believe that each one of us must vote his or her heart and conscience. If we fail to do that, we will continue to be stuck with spineless politicians who stand for nothing and no one (except those who write them the biggest checks).
My vote for Clark is one of conscience. I feel so strongly about this that I'm going to devote the next few weeks of my life to do everything I can to help Wesley Clark win. I would love it if you would join me on this mission.
Here are just a few of the reasons why I feel this way about Wes Clark:
1. Clark has committed to ensuring that every family of four who makes under $50,000 a year pays NO federal income tax. None. Zip. This is the most incredible helping hand offered by a major party presidential candidate to the working class and the working poor in my lifetime. He will make up the difference by socking it to the rich with a 5% tax increase on anything they make over a million bucks. He will make sure corporations pay ALL of the taxes they should be paying. Clark has fired a broadside at greed. When the New York Times last week wrote that Wes Clark has been “positioning himself slightly to Dean’s left," this is what they meant, and it sure sounded good to me.
2. He is 100% opposed to the draft. If you are 18-25 years old and reading this right now, I have news for you -- if Bush wins, he's going to bring back the draft. He will be forced to. Because, thanks to his crazy war, recruitment is going to be at an all-time low. And many of the troops stuck over there are NOT going to re-enlist. The only way Bush is going to be able to staff the military is to draft you and your friends. Parents, make no mistake about it -- Bush's second term will see your sons taken from you and sent to fight wars for the oily rich. Only an ex-general who knows first-hand that a draft is a sure-fire way to wreck an army will be able to avert the inevitable.
3. He is anti-war. Have you heard his latest attacks on Bush over the Iraq War? They are stunning and brilliant. I want to see him on that stage in a debate with Bush -- the General vs. the Deserter! General Clark told me that it's people like him who are truly anti-war because it's people like him who have to die if there is a war. "War must be the absolute last resort," he told me. "Once you've seen young people die, you never want to see that again, and you want to avoid it whenever and wherever possible." I believe him. And my ex-Army relatives believe him, too. It's their votes we need.
4. He walks the walk. On issues like racism, he just doesn't mouth liberal platitudes -- he does something about it. On his own volition, he joined in and filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan's case in favor of affirmative action. He spoke about his own insistence on affirmative action in the Army and how giving a hand to those who have traditionally been shut out has made our society a better place. He didn't have to get involved in that struggle. He's a middle-aged white guy -- affirmative action personally does him no good. But that is not the way he thinks. He grew up in Little Rock, one of the birthplaces of the civil rights movement, and he knows that African Americans still occupy the lowest rungs of the ladder in a country where everyone is supposed to have "a chance." That is why he has been endorsed by one of the founding members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Charlie Rangel, and former Atlanta Mayor and aide to Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young.
5. On the issue of gun control, this hunter and gun owner will close the gun show loophole (which would have helped prevent the massacre at Columbine) and he will sign into law a bill to create a federal ballistics fingerprinting database for every gun in America (the DC sniper, who bought his rifle in his own name, would have been identified after the FIRST day of his killing spree). He is not afraid, as many Democrats are, of the NRA. His message to them: "You like to fire assault weapons? I have a place for you. It's not in the homes and streets of America. It's called the Army, and you can join any time!"
6. He will gut and overhaul the Patriot Act and restore our constitutional rights to privacy and free speech. He will demand stronger environmental laws. He will insist that trade agreements do not cost Americans their jobs and do not exploit the workers or environment of third world countries. He will expand the Family Leave Act. He will guarantee universal pre-school throughout America. He opposes all discrimination against gays and lesbians (and he opposes the constitutional amendment outlawing gay marriage). All of this is why Time magazine this week referred to Clark as "Dean 2.0" -- an improvement over the original (1.0, Dean himself), a better version of a good thing: stronger, faster, and easier for the mainstream to understand and use.
7. He will cut the Pentagon budget, use the money thus saved for education and health care, and he will STILL make us safer than we are now. Only the former commander of NATO could get away with such a statement. Dean says he will not cut a dime out of the Pentagon. Clark knows where the waste and the boondoggles are and he knows that nutty ideas like Star Wars must be put to pasture. His health plan will cover at least 30 million people who now have no coverage at all, including 13 million children. He's a general who will tell those swing voters, "We can take this Pentagon waste and put it to good use to fix that school in your neighborhood." My friends, those words, coming from the mouth of General Clark, are going to turn this country around.
Now, before those of you who are Dean or Kucinich supporters start cloggin' my box with emails tearing Clark down with some of the stuff I've seen floating around the web ("Mike! He voted for Reagan! He bombed Kosovo!"), let me respond by pointing out that Dennis Kucinich refused to vote against the war resolution in Congress on March 21 (two days after the war started) which stated "unequivocal support" for Bush and the war (only 11 Democrats voted against this--Dennis abstained). Or, need I quote Dr. Dean who, the month after Bush "won" the election, said he wasn't too worried about Bush because Bush "in his soul, is a moderate"? What's the point of this ridiculous tit-for-tat sniping? I applaud Dennis for all his other stands against the war, and I am certain Howard no longer believes we have nothing to fear about Bush. They are good people.
Why expend energy on the past when we have such grave danger facing us in the present and in the near future? I don't feel bad nor do I care that Clark -- or anyone -- voted for Reagan over 20 years ago. Let's face it, the vast majority of Americans voted for Reagan -- and I want every single one of them to be WELCOMED into our tent this year. The message to these voters -- and many of them are from the working class -- should not be, "You voted for Reagan? Well, to hell with you!" Every time you attack Clark for that, that is the message you are sending to all the people who at one time liked Reagan. If they have now changed their minds (just as Kucinich has done by going from anti-choice to pro-choice, and Dean has done by wanting to cut Medicare to now not wanting to cut it) – and if Clark has become a liberal Democrat, is that not something to cheer?
In fact, having made that political journey and metamorphosis, is he not the best candidate to bring millions of other former Reagan supporters to our side -- blue collar people who have now learned the hard way just how bad Reagan and the Republicans were (and are) for them?
We need to take that big DO NOT ENTER sign off our tent and reach out to the vast majority who have been snookered by these right-wingers. And we have a better chance of winning in November with one of their own leading them to the promised land.
There is much more to discuss and, in the days and weeks ahead, I will continue to send you my thoughts. In the coming months, I will also be initiating a number of efforts on my website to make sure we get out the vote for the Democratic nominee in November.
In addition to voting for Wesley Clark, I will also be spending part of my Bush tax cut to help him out. You can join me, if you like, by going to his website to learn more about him, to volunteer, or to donate. To find out about when your state’s presidential primaries are, visit Vote Smart.
I strongly urge you to vote for Wes Clark. Let's join together to ensure that we are putting forth our BEST chance to defeat Bush on the November ballot. It is, at this point, for the sake of the world, a moral imperative.
Yours,
Michael Moore
www.michaelmoore.com
mmflint@aol.comP.S. To register to vote visit www.yourvotematters.org.
quote:Maar ja, dat kan je van geen enkele Amerikaanse president verwachten
He will insist that trade agreements do not cost Americans their jobs and do not exploit the workers or environment of third world countries.
quote:Jeb Bush is gouverneur van Florida. En zorgde in die positie min of meer dat zijn broer president werd, Ik weet niet of er nog andere familieleden in de politiek zitten, afgezien van hun vader uiteraard.
Op donderdag 15 januari 2004 20:26 schreef Sessy het volgende:
hmmm ik sprak laatst met een amerikaan en een of ander broer of neef of zo van Bush probeerde nou ookal in het congress te komen?
Ik verwacht overigens dat Jeb Bush ook nog wel eens gaat proberen president te worden.
quote:Michael Moore leeft in een andere wereld. Hij kan nooit met echte feiten komen om Bush te bekritiseren. Nee daarentegen doet hij dit met lage wedstrijdjes wie de mooiste anti bush filmpjes kan maken. Maargoed hij zet alleen zichzelf voor schud. Het meerendeel van de amerikanen heeft toch een bloedhekel aan hem
Op vrijdag 16 januari 2004 17:12 schreef Kozzmic het volgende:
Goed stukje van Michael Moore, het is dat ik niet kan stemmen in de VS maar anders zou ik toch serieus twijfelen tussen Clarke en Dean.
[..]Jeb Bush is gouverneur van Florida. En zorgde in die positie min of meer dat zijn broer president werd, Ik weet niet of er nog andere familieleden in de politiek zitten, afgezien van hun vader uiteraard.
Ik verwacht overigens dat Jeb Bush ook nog wel eens gaat proberen president te worden.
Wes Clark won a war, but ran afoul of his Pentagon masters and lost his job. Here's how. A NEWSWEEK exclusiveBy Evan Thomas and T. Trent Gegax
NewsweekFeb. 2 issue - One of the most damning charges against retired Gen. Wesley Clark has also been the vaguest. After Clark entered the Democratic race last September, Gen. Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that Clark had been sacked as commander of NATO forces after the 1999 Balkans war because of "integrity and character issues." Shelton has refused to comment further, and Clark's civilian boss, the then Defense Secretary William Cohen, has also remained silent.
The doubts raised by Clark's own bosses have cast an uneasy pall over his presidential candidacy. What really happened? According to a knowledgeable source, Clark ran afoul of Cohen and Shelton by being less than totally forthcoming in morning conference calls during the Kosovo war in the spring of 1999. From his NATO headquarters in Brussels, Clark wanted to wage the war more aggressively, but back in the Pentagon, Cohen and Shelton were more cautious. They would give Clark instructions on, for instance, the scale of the bombing campaign. "Clark would say, 'Uh-huh, gotcha'," says NEWSWEEK's source. But then he would pick up the phone and call [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair and [Secretary of State] Madeleine [Albright]." As Clark knew full well, Blair and Albright were more hawkish than Shelton and Cohen. After talking to the State Department and NATO allies, Clark would have a different set of marching orders, says the source, who has spoken about the matter with both Cohen and Clark. "Then, about 1 o'clock, the Defense Department would hear what Clark was up to, and Cohen and Shelton would be furious."
Was Clark going around them? Not really. As NATO commander, Clark told NEWSWEEK, "I wore two hats." He reported to Washington, but also to America's European allies. And within the U.S. government, he was within his authority to seek guidance from the State Department and certainly from the White House, as well as from his nominal bosses at the Pentagon.
"I was forthcoming," Clark insisted. "If [Cohen and Shelton] gave me an instruction, I did it. I would never have not done what they told me to do. But the truth is, they weren't in touch with the situation well enough to tell me everything to do. It's why you have the title supreme allied commander... The buck usually stopped on my desk... I had, by necessity, a certain independence. Yet no matter how many times I tried to bring Hugh Shelton and Washington to understand the allied side, it didn't compute. They just didn't see it." General Shelton, Clark's aides are quick to note, is now listed as an unpaid adviser to the John Edwards campaign.
The problem may have been partly a matter of Clark's tone and manner. As an ambitious officer, Clark gained a reputation among his peers for telling different people what they wanted to hear, without seeming to realize that his listeners might later compare notes and accuse Clark of being two-faced. Clark might have done better if he had adopted a more straightforward manner, perhaps leavened with a spot of humor. Consider, for instance, the approach used by Secretary of State Albright. When she first pushed to threaten force against the Serbs in Kosovo, a senior administration official exclaimed, "You people always want to bomb someone. It's some kind of orgasm." Albright silenced the men in the room by remarking, "I forget what an orgasm is."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4052506/
Weg met die Clark dus, enge man dat het is.
quote:Welnee, toen was al duidelijk dat Clark veel meer een man van internationale politiek was en een geboren leider, dan het schandknaapje van pennenlikkers.
Op zondag 25 januari 2004 22:07 schreef BAZZA het volgende:
Weg met die Clark dus, enge man dat het is.
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quote:Precies... lekker de Russen pesten met je heli's en trots vertellen dat je met de steun van bijna de gehele NAVO de FYR op de knietjes hebt gekregen, dan ben je wel een echte bikkel
Op zondag 25 januari 2004 23:13 schreef speknek het volgende:
Welnee, toen was al duidelijk dat Clark veel meer een man van internationale politiek was en een geboren leider, dan het schandknaapje van pennenlikkers.
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Een goede zaak me dunkt! Zowel Clark als Kerry zijn voor een forse extra geldinjectie van het amerikaanse leger en bovendien meer macht en zelfstandigheid voor deze organisatie.
quote:Nu ben ik best pro-Amerika hoor, maar... uhm...
Op vrijdag 13 februari 2004 22:19 schreef BloodhoundFromHell het volgende:Een goede zaak me dunkt! Zowel Clark als Kerry zijn voor een forse extra geldinjectie van het amerikaanse leger en bovendien meer macht en zelfstandigheid voor deze organisatie.
quote:*zucht* het komt dus nooit meer goed met Amerika.
Op vrijdag 13 februari 2004 22:19 schreef BloodhoundFromHell het volgende:Zowel Clark als Kerry zijn voor een forse extra geldinjectie van het amerikaanse leger en bovendien meer macht en zelfstandigheid voor deze organisatie.
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