And the Republicans want Reagan on Mt. Rushmore

Hey Folks,

Here it is: the Old Double Standard coming back to bite us in the ass!!

Their wall bad; our wall good!?!?! One dead Empire deserves another!!


- Uke Man


Gorbachev: Don’t build new Berlin wall
Last Soviet leader strikes Reagan-like pose in Texas talk
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Bob Campbell and Ruth Campbell
MIDLAND REPORTER-TELEGRAM

MIDLAND, Texas — Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev compares the United States’ proposed 700-mile wall on the U.S.-Mexico border to the Berlin Wall.

Addressing a news conference Tuesday at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Gorbachev was by turns serious and flippant.

"You remember President Reagan standing in Berlin and saying, ‘This wall should be torn down,’ " said the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize winner, the last leader of the Soviet Union.

"Now the United States seems to be building almost the Wall of China between itself and this other nation with which it has been associated for many decades and has had cooperation and interaction with.

"I think what is really needed are ideas and proposals about how to improve that cooperation and work out all of those issues regarding immigration flows. I don’t think the U.S. is so weak and so much lacks confidence as not to be able to find a different solution."

At a lecture later Tuesday, Gorbachev, 75, who lives in Moscow, said it’s not too late for the United States to bring other countries in on an exit strategy for Iraq.

The war was a mistake from the start, Gorbachev said.

Through an interpreter, Gorbachev spoke in the town where President Bush grew up as part of a lecture series at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin.