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	Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. - Proverbs 16:8

History Redux

San Jose Mercury News

Monday 9 May 2005, 5:15 pm
Keywords: News Articles

By Ron Hutcheson, Knight Ridder

Speaking to a Latvian audience with bitter memories of Soviet domination, Bush expressed regrets about the 1945 Yalta agreement that divided Europe into U.S. and Soviet spheres of influence. The pact, approved by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin near the end of World War II, effectively cleared the way for the creation of Soviet satellites in Eastern and Central Europe.

"Once again, when powerful governments negotiated, the freedom of small nations was somehow expendable. Yet this attempt to sacrifice freedom for the sake of stability left a continent divided and unstable. The captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history."

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/11595092.htm

Uh ... Mr. Bush ... Hellllooooo?