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2007-03-30 Down Under

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 D ***ng, forgot the source but I believe it was a Euro blog that had an article ascribing that Stalin may had eliminated 50 Milyuhn??? Soviets during the pre-WW2 Purges + Collectivizations, which goes far in [partially]helping to explain how the Nazis destroyed the pre-BARBAROSSA Red Army so quickly. Essentially Stalin killed off roughly 1/2 +/- of the pre-WW2 population of the Soviet Union , wid out Hitler having to invade anything???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-30 00:42|| 2007-03-30 00:42|| Front Page Top

#2 It is typical of the often hysterical excuses made for Hicks, and laced with anti-Americanism, that Brown equates Guantanamo Bay with the Soviet Union's gulag -- equates the imprisonment of some 400 accused terrorists, many caught on the battlefield, with the imprisonment of 18 million civilians in conditions so brutal that a million or more died.

Just another facet of the Bush-Hitler disinformation campaign led by the left. Their pathetic attempts to draw moral equivalency between America's Global War on Terrorism and history's most gruesome tyrants is rapidly becoming as treasonous as it is tiresome. Most astonishing of all is how they seek to absolve Islam of its genocidal obsession while simultaneously accusing America of the same. It is this sort of moral hypocrisy that makes the left more irrelevant with each passing day.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-03-30 01:37|| 2007-03-30 01:37|| Front Page Top

#3 "that's worth at least the five years in jail he's already served, wouldn't you think? Plus a few more."

-no, actually its worth his summary execution.

Posted by Broadhead6 in Iraq 2007-03-30 02:06|| 2007-03-30 02:06|| Front Page Top

#4 How little those "liberals" care about those who are prisoners in Guantanamo!!! I mean in the Cuban jails of Guantanamo who make the American ones look like Club Med and whose inmates haven't killed or tried to enslave anyone.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-03-30 04:38|| 2007-03-30 04:38|| Front Page Top

#5 If I remember correctly, The Black Book of Communism, edited by Stephane Courtois, suggests figures of 20 million for the Soviet Union and about 65 milion for Communist China. He may be off a few million for the USSR, I don't know.

I just wish people wouldn't just blame Stalin. He was responsible, but he had lots of willing help.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-03-30 07:51|| 2007-03-30 07:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Update...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The prison sentence of an Australian detainee who pleaded guilty to a terrorism-related charge would be limited to seven years under terms of a plea bargain, a military judge at Guantanamo Bay said Friday.

The judge, Marine Corps. Col. Ralph Kohlmann, revealed the terms of the agreement at a hearing Friday on whether to accept David Hicks' guilty plea. It was not immediately clear whether the maximum sentence accounts for the five years Hicks has already spent at Guantanamo Bay. Under an agreement between the United States and Australia, Hicks will serve any sentence in Australia.

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-30 09:57|| 2007-03-30 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 How about we fly him over to Australia and drop in the middle of the country from about 30k feet?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-03-30 18:56|| 2007-03-30 18:56|| Front Page Top

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