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2003-09-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Hold the Security - Greece proposes Olympic truce!

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Posted by Bulldog 2003-09-27 6:17:28 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 to provide relief to suffering populations, to reflect on the misery of war, and to open dialogue

What, no call for the US to disarm??? No blatant anti-American propaganda??? C'mon Kofi... you're slipping.

Posted by Rafael 2003-9-27 7:13:56 AM|| 2003-9-27 7:13:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 peace, hope, and understanding are great, but I'll take a firearm and kevlar over them, thank you very much Kofi

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-27 10:18:45 AM|| 2003-9-27 10:18:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 A two week Hunda where we can't kill terrorists while they realign. Gimme a break.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-27 10:38:01 AM|| 2003-9-27 10:38:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sounds like the Greeks are scared and/or don't have their shit together.

Posted by Raj 2003-9-27 10:57:32 AM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-9-27 10:57:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Telly-Tubby Hug

Posted by rg117 2003-9-27 12:00:45 PM|| 2003-9-27 12:00:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Telly-Tubby Hug

Got any idea how much C4 Tinky Wink could carry in that purse?

Posted by Shipman 2003-9-27 12:37:09 PM|| 2003-9-27 12:37:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 What the Greeks are really afraid of, and this truce BS proves it, are Catholics and other stuges of the Vatican causing a ruckus. The Pope knows this and does nothing to prevent it. His Bishops preach hatred of the Orthodox and a blind devotion to the papacy and latin superiorty. I could go on and on but you folks know the story. But ever since the 72 olympics, when the catholics took the Greek fencing team hostage, there has been and continues to be a security problem in hosting the olympics.

Posted by Lucky 2003-9-27 12:40:48 PM|| 2003-9-27 12:40:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The US athletes will be booed unmercifully in Greece. Not that it has much to do with Bush or the WOT, because our athletes were booed pretty badly (even our women athletes) at the Sydney games in 2000 -- and the Clintons were prez at the time.

Posted by g wiz 2003-9-27 1:05:47 PM|| 2003-9-27 1:05:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 ..Actually, this may not be so much a plea for World Peace(tm), but a desperate plea on the part of the Greek leadership to the gunnies - 'For Zeus' sake, don't f**k this up!!!' The Greeks are notoriously lax when it comes to the terrs, and they sure as heck aren't going to crack down on them and risk getting their own backsides chewed up.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2003-9-27 2:37:58 PM|| 2003-9-27 2:37:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 *Sigh* No comment until Aris comments.

Posted by Ptah 2003-9-27 3:52:05 PM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-9-27 3:52:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The reason this worked in Classical Greece is that all the states that sent contestants were co-religionists; if you broke the truce, not only the rest of Greeece but also the gods would be on your case. Unfortunately, not the case here and now... and I do mean unfortunately. I'd like to think such things were possible and we could get the world thru a fortnight without multiple stories about wormfood being generated thru modern chemistry and politics. But those days are gone if they ever existed outside romantic fiction.

Posted by Mercutio 2003-9-27 6:23:26 PM|| 2003-9-27 6:23:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 "If we could have peace for 16 days...we can have it forever"

Can I sue Mr. Papandreou for causing an intense pain in my sides from laughing so hard?

Posted by Stephen 2003-9-27 10:13:48 PM|| 2003-9-27 10:13:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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