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The late and in many ways great film director Stanley Kubrick put it well, at least in this context. He observed in 1963, in an interview after he released Dr Strangelove, that the great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes. Steve K. ________________________________________ >From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Quislings Offer NATO Polish Cannon Fodder [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] >Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 08:11:21 -0800 (PST) > >HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK >--------------------------- > >[To place matters in perspective imagine a press >release from 1,900 years ago with this lead sentence: >Sarmatian satrap offers 300 local plebians to the >Roman Proconsul of the Deifed Emperor Heliogabalus to >be dispensed with as He pleases in His wars of >conquest in Parthia, Media, Bactria and Ariana. >Not much has changed in the intervening centuries.] > > >Polish Troops Ready to Help in Antiterrorist >Operations, Says Foreign Minister >WARSAW, Jan 9, 2002 -- (BBC Monitoring) Text of report >in English by Polish news agency PAP. >Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has notified >U.S. State Secretary Colin Powell of the full >readiness of a 300-strong Polish contingent to join an >international U.S.-led antiterrorist action. >Boguslaw Majewski, the ministry's information system >department's director, said Cimoszewicz has written >[to] Powell that the troops have reached full >operational readiness to do service within the >framework of the antiterrorist operation "against >targets in Afghanistan and outside". >The Polish minister said in his letter that the >soldiers have been thoroughly selected and prepared in >line with the requirements included in a U.S. >application for assistance Powell has signed. >Government spokesman Michal Tober [on] Tuesday [8 >January] told journalists after the cabinet meeting >that the ministers heard Defense Minister Jerzy >Szmajdzinski's report on Polish troops preparation for >the action and decided that Prime Minister Leszek >Miller should discuss time, scope and sites for >troops' operation during his visit to the USA. >Source: PAP news agency, Warsaw, in English 1615 GMT 8 >Jan 02 >(C) 2002 BBC Monitoring > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! >http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
