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To: maceng2 who wrote (38304)	8/10/2008 4:40:59 PM
From: Webster Groves	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219681

If you had family in the Baltic states, you would know that the Red Army was a big problem long before 1941. When the Germans invaded Soviet-occupied Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in 1941, they were greeted as liberators by the locals. Of course that changed, but then the Reds returned and the Germans started looking good again. I agree with you that it was Russia and not the USA that destroyed Nazi Germany. A lot of the arms sent in to Murmansk from the USA were 2nd rate junk the US forces didn't want - in particular the P-39 Bell Air Cobra which US pilots thought of as a death-trap. The Russians didn't care whether it was "OSHA certified" as long as it worked sometimes. The Russians also responded by designing their own aircraft appropriate to their needs. The Russian design bureaus were well-motivated. Either produce a new plane that works or be shot on the spot. getting off the mark here, but I think the Russians have justification to take action in Georgia. The US has been arming the Georgians via third parties and training its forces. The outcome was to be expected by all, I assume. Now if only we knew why - oil ??? wg