Friends, foes mark WWII’s beginning in Poland

[KRonn]

A somber remembrance.

Putin and Merkel will be there. US is sending National Security Adviser James Jones? That choice seems a bit odd. I do wish the US saw fit to send at least a different position, perhaps a high level State dept, preferably Sec State Hillary Clinton or her deputy, or the VP Biden.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32637688/ns/world_news-europe/

Friends, foes mark WWII's beginning in Poland
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[Valmy]

A somber remembrance.

Putin and Merkel will be there. US is sending National Security Adviser James Jones? That choice seems a bit odd. I do wish the US saw fit to send at least a different position, perhaps a high level State dept, preferably Sec State Hillary Clinton or her deputy, or the VP Biden.

Right isn't it Biden's job to attend crap like this?

[derspiess]

Hopefully Merkel rumbled across the border in a restored Pzkw II & Putin in a BT-7

[Valmy]

Hopefully Merkel rumbled across the border in a restored Pzkw II & Putin in a BT-7

*joke about the Poles charging tanks with cavalry*

*savage beat down by fanatical internet legion of nationalist Poles follows*

[Jaron]

Hopefully Merkel rumbled across the border in a restored Pzkw II & Putin in a BT-7

Your side lost WWII.

[Eddie Teach]

Right isn't it Biden's job to attend crap like this?

Maybe he's got real work to do, like Cheney did.

[derspiess]

Your side lost WWII.

Your side lost in 1848

[Valmy]

Maybe he's got real work to do, like Cheney did.

I elected him to go abroad and make humorous gaffes, not do work.

[DGuller]

Maybe he's got real work to do, like Cheney did.

I elected him to go abroad and make humorous gaffes, not do work.

Same here.  In fact, if I knew he'd do work, I would've voted for someone else.

[Jaron]

Your side lost WWII.

Your side lost in 1848

My pancho is soaked in tears.

[Ed Anger]

I'll pop the champagne today and celebrate the dismemberment of Poland and Hans Frank's administration.

[Valmy]

I'll pop the champagne today and celebrate the dismemberment of Poland and Hans Frank's administration.

You, sir, are worse than Satan dressed up like Hitler.

[Ed Anger]

I'll pop the champagne today and celebrate the dismemberment of Poland and Hans Frank's administration.

You, sir, are worse than Satan dressed up like Hitler.

I'm a bastard coated bastard with bastard filling.

[KRonn]

It had to happen. On one of the news reports I watched, the announcer told of this date in history. And at one point, of course, he had to bring up how the Poles attacked tanks with cavalry.   

[Sheilbh]

Maybe he's got real work to do, like Cheney did.

I elected him to go abroad and make humorous gaffes, not do work.

Same here.  In fact, if I knew he'd do work, I would've voted for someone else.

I've often thought that Biden offers an incredible benefit as VP.  When he says something about foreign policy I imagine the Embassies and Chancelleries of the world go into overdrive trying to work out whether it's the administration floating something, a Freudian slip representing real policy or just Biden being Biden.  It must be useful to have someone like that around.