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2011-08-15 Africa North

Medvedev signs order backing Libyan rebels

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Posted by Fred 2011-08-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ] Top

#1 It was not immediately clear why Medvedev signed the decree five months after Resolution 1973 was passed.

For the same reasons the USSR finally declared war on Japan.

Posted by Pappy 2011-08-15 00:53|| 2011-08-15 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Proof positive we're once again in the WRONG CAMP!

Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-15 00:58|| 2011-08-15 00:58|| Front Page Top

#3 ION TOPIX > KIM JONG-IL SNATCH SCENARIO INCLUDED IN MILITARY EXERCISE.

NEW MEDVEDEV ORDER > Kimmie = Uncle Muammar = Cold War-style SPETZNATZ KIDNAP OP???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-15 01:40|| 2011-08-15 01:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Internal political struggles (Medvedev thinks he, not Puti, should be numero uno).

Posted by gr(o)mgoru 2011-08-15 05:27|| 2011-08-15 05:27|| Front Page Top

#5 What did he say, "shoot the winners"?

Because that's what I'd be tempted to do.

Posted by mojo 2011-08-15 11:51|| 2011-08-15 11:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, bullshit, grom, you know better. Putin is the bad cop, and Medvedev is the good cop. Putin struts about when it's useful to play the third-world authoritarian, and Medvedev comes out, rubbing hands and cringing when it's time to toe the Western line.

The news for Gaddafi & Company are *bad* this weekend, so it's time to send Medvedev out to hop on the bandwagon. I'd compare this with the belated Russian involvement in the Kosovo War, wherein they piled in and took the provincial airport at the last moment.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-08-15 13:47|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-08-15 13:47|| Front Page Top

#7 The news for Gaddafi & Company are *bad* this weekend

How do you figure?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-08-15 14:20|| 2011-08-15 14:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Uh, articles like this one and that one?

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-08-15 15:47|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-08-15 15:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah, Mitch would you like to buy some shares in Brooklyn Bridge---I'll make you a good price.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-08-15 15:54|| 2011-08-15 15:54|| Front Page Top

#10 grom, do you just filter out news that you don't like, or do you honestly believe that the reporters with the rebels are actually working out of a radio relay station in Honduras, relaying imagery from the same Burbank sound stages they used to fake the moon landings?

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-08-15 17:28|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-08-15 17:28|| Front Page Top

#11 of course he would start backing them now. It's getting about time too decide who will get the future oil and military contracts when this thing is over.

Posted by chris 2011-08-15 21:49|| 2011-08-15 21:49|| Front Page Top

#12 "grom, do you just filter out news that you don't like, or do you honestly believe that the reporters with the rebels are actually working out of a radio relay station in Honduras, relaying imagery from the same Burbank sound stages they used to fake the moon landings?"

Ouch! Nice one Mitch :D

Posted by Shakey Steve 2011-08-15 21:53|| 2011-08-15 21:53|| Front Page Top

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