Ted Stevens - Evil Empire speech

Posted by: Dobbin on 09 June 2004

I'm just watching the Reagan funeral on TV and have been incensed by Stevens speech after what has been a very dignified farewell to Nancy's husband and a US president.

However do all US citizens really believe Russia to have been the Evil Empire as Stevens clearly said (or read from his script in a particularlly inarticulate way)?

Futhermore Dennis Hastert quickly followed with the usual history re-write of D-day with America being the sole contributor to victory in Europe.

No wonder we have the mess in the Middle East if these people are turning the handles.

Me I can't wait to cast my vote later this morning.....the more we distance ourselves in the UK from these morons the better.

Posted on: 10 June 2004 by Rasher

So Dobbin, tell me how you might vote to distance us from the US?
I voted Green today, and that is the first time I have ever done anything like that before!

Posted on: 10 June 2004 by Paul Ranson

The USSR was an evil empire. There's obviously no formal ranking for these but let's say on a par with the Nazis.

Paul

Posted on: 10 June 2004 by matthewr

On a ranking with Nazi Germany under Stalin but merely run-of-the-mill brutal, oppressive dictatorship from Krushchev on I think.

In terms of empire (as in foreign policy) its major post-war contribution was the Cold War and it that respect it was very little different from the US.

Matthew