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2013-07-27 Africa North
Pro-military masses in Cairo wave banners saying "Obama Out! Putin in!"
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Posted by 3dc 2013-07-27 01:34|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Q Why is Russia sticking by Assad so staunchly?
A As a message to other potential allies.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-27 01:48||   2013-07-27 01:48|| Front Page Top

#2 A: Because Champ so wishes to see Assad dead ?
Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-27 01:56||   2013-07-27 01:56|| Front Page Top

#3 A: A mixture of business - selling weapons, and neo-colonialism. Wants to be a world power again.
Posted by phil_b 2013-07-27 02:04||   2013-07-27 02:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
Posted by Stalin 2013-07-27 05:26||   2013-07-27 05:26|| Front Page Top

#5 g(r)om, That's sure one way to distinguish yourself from the feckless fool in the White House.

White House? Isn't that racist?
Posted by AlanC 2013-07-27 08:06||   2013-07-27 08:06|| Front Page Top

#6 When I was in, even in the Infantry, they said amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
So I have to ask: How many Port-a-Potties does it take to service one of these affairs?
Never mind.
Posted by Richard Aubrey  2013-07-27 08:13||   2013-07-27 08:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Well, whatever the port-a-pottie requirement was, subtract 40 former users and Morsi supporters as of this morning.
Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-27 08:22||   2013-07-27 08:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Never thourght i see the day I prefer a Russian leader over a US Leader.

Putin sees the real threat in this world ie Sunni political islam sponsored by Saudi/Qatar does Obama?
Posted by Paul D 2013-07-27 09:16||   2013-07-27 09:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Vlad sees it. We see it. What was Champ's middle name again ?
Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-27 09:18||   2013-07-27 09:18|| Front Page Top

#10 What was Champ's middle name again ?

"Gotta get into Harvard"?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-27 10:06||   2013-07-27 10:06|| Front Page Top

#11 "Obama Out! Putin in!"

I certainly won't support a Communist. So I guess that means I'm stuck with Putin.

Snark of the day indeed.
Posted by Matt 2013-07-27 11:10||   2013-07-27 11:10|| Front Page Top

#12 Nominate Matt for Snark O' the Day.™ :-D
Posted by Barbara 2013-07-27 11:13||   2013-07-27 11:13|| Front Page Top

#13 "Obama Out! Putin In!"

Because Putin's less communist?

Al
Posted by Frozen Al 2013-07-27 12:48||   2013-07-27 12:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Matt, like most NOLA types is lazy, picking up the easy kill. :)

Also: Hello.
Posted by Shipman 2013-07-27 16:14||   2013-07-27 16:14|| Front Page Top

#15 Hi Ship. Chris doing OK?
Posted by Matt 2013-07-27 17:22||   2013-07-27 17:22|| Front Page Top

#16 as huge placards waved over their heads depicting as a threesome Gen. El-Sisi, Vladimir Putin and Gemal Abdel Nasser, who ruled Egypt in the 60s in close alliance with the Soviet Union

Because nothing worked so well as Pan-Arabism...
Posted by Pappy 2013-07-27 18:39||   2013-07-27 18:39|| Front Page Top

#17 Because nothing worked so well as Pan-Arabism...

Secular Marxist-Leninists vs Islamist Marxist-Leninists. You gotta love Egypt, where not learning from the past is the national religion.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2013-07-27 19:22||   2013-07-27 19:22|| Front Page Top

#18 Matt Chris is fine, kinda rattleled by the murder of that Social Work a few weeks back, a classmate and first in family to finish college. They had to raise cash to send the body back to Savannah. Bad business.
Posted by Shipman 2013-07-27 22:43||   2013-07-27 22:43|| Front Page Top

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