"New Europe" or old Soviet bloc? (Insider Report).In late January, eight European heads of state published a letter supporting the Bush administration's drive toward war with Iraq. Insisting that all nations are bound to uphold UN Security Council Resolution 1441, the letter declared: "We must remain united in insisting that [Iraq] be disarmed. The solidarity, cohesion and determination of the international community are our best hope of achieving this peacefully." The letter was signed by the leaders of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Great Britain, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. The Bush administration insisted that the letter represents the "new Europe," as contrasted with the "old Europe" represented by Germany and France (which had expressed reservations about war with Iraq). Not mentioned by the Bush administration, or its courtiers in the "conservative" media (such as Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity), was that two of the signatories--Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller and Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy are retread re·tread tr.v. re·tread·ed, re·tread·ing, re·treads 1. To fit (a worn automotive tire) with a new tread. 2. Stalinists. Former Polish Politburo member Miller, according to a profile by Anne Applebaum of the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, belonged to the Communist Party's "beton" (blockhead) wing--intransigent Marxist numbskulls who slavishly slav·ish adj. 1. Of or characteristic of a slave or slavery; servile: Her slavish devotion to her job ruled her life. 2. parroted the Kremlin line. Last May it was disclosed that Medgyessy was an agent of Hungary's Sovietera secret police, a KGB KGB: see secret police. KGB Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. appendage appendage /ap·pen·dage/ (ah-pen´dij) a subordinate portion of a structure, or an outgrowth, such as a tail. epiploic appendages see under appendix . . With the possible exception of Silvio Berlusconi's Italian government, the other signatories of the letter (which the pro-war Wall Street Journal arranged, according to the February 1st Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). ) represent Euro-Socialist regimes. This collection of parlor pinks and hard-core Reds had the audacity to claim: "The real bond between the United States and Europe is the values we share--democracy, individual freedom, human rights and the rule of law." |
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