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| The Ultimate Polish Joke |
| 2003-05-30 |
| Anti-War Polish Mayor Banned from Bush Visit Thu May 29, 6:42 AM ET WARSAW (Reuters) - The mayor of the Polish city of Krakow said Thursday he had been excluded from President Bush's visit to the city this weekend because of his [virulent] opposition to the war on Iraq. Well maybe, but it could be because you look like Lenin with a bad rug. See: http://www.majchrowski.pl/ "It is customary that the mayor, as the host of this city, should take part in the welcoming ceremony. But the Americans have said they will not have it," Mayor Jacek Majchrowski told private radio RMF. Jacek ... Jacque ... just a strange coincidence? Hmmmmm. "It is strange that guests dictate where the host should or should not be," he added. Majchrowski wrote a newspaper article entitled "Pax Americana" in March, harshly criticizing the U.S.-led war to topple Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), in which Poland also took part. I couldn't find this article but I did find this website where Majchrowski is mentioned several times. Although I can't read Polish you can get the gist by looking at some of border "art" (Iraq Body Count, a defaced American flag), the links (Amnesty International, Reporters without Borders) and the names that pop up (Cheney and Halliburton, etc.) I think it a fair assumption that Mr. Mayor is a hard leftist anti-American type who would be quite comfortable rubbing elbows with Michael Moore and Cynthia McKinney. One of the purposes of the trip is for the President to thank the Poles for their support on Iraq. You, Mr. Majchrowski, not only did not support America you openly opposed us. Why would the President want to honor and thank you? In turn, why would you want to honor and thank the President. Such would be hypocrisy. You are the ultimate Polish joke! He has welcomed anti-war marches in Krakow, lauding the demonstrators as having "saved the honor of the city." If you want to write to Mr. Mayor, his e-mail address is: Jacek.Majchrowski@um.krakow.pl. I don't know how well expletives translate into Polish, but heck give it a shot. |
| Posted by:ColoradoConservative |
| #5 Sounds like Aris has a clue. |
| Posted by: Raptor 2003-05-31 09:16:54 |
| #4 "One of the purposes of the trip is for the President to thank the Poles for their support on Iraq." You mean to thank those specific Poles that supported you, don't you? And ostracize the rest. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2003-05-31 08:03:06 |
| #3 I took a short look at the site and it seemed to me that if I dug deeper I would find anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian propaganda. Surely as the Pope is Catholic, I did. My guess is that the owner of the site is one of those pathological anti-Israeli types, who claims that the entire Polish government, and anyone else who doesn't agree with him, is a Jew. There is a list of names circulating, that matches the supposedly real Jewish names of such people. Unfortunately a lot of Poles fall into the trap that groups them together with the types of idiots who put up that website. "Do you think that war is bad?" "Yes!" "So do we! You're with us!" BTW, there's a whole other world to the Polish anti-Jew crowd and their attitude that would put anything coming out of the Arab Street to shame. Some examples: Israel caused 9-11, American Jews funded Hitler, Communists were Jewish... and on, and on. |
| Posted by: RW 2003-05-30 20:43:23 |
| #2 just as there's protocol for gracious guests, there's also a protocol for gracious hosts. In this case, Jacek, understand that your presence is as welcome as a fart in church and stay the f*&k away |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-05-30 17:11:26 |
| #1 Ahem, I forgot the website: http://www.orient.art.pl/ |
| Posted by: ColoradoConservative 2003-05-30 16:49:32 |