Bomb 'targets' Greek minister

Tuesday, May 30, 2006; Posted: 3:31 a.m. EDT (07:31 GMT)

ATHENS, Greece (Reuters) -- A powerful bomb apparently targeting Greek Culture Minister George Voulgarakis exploded in central Athens, wrecking cars but causing no injuries, police said.

"It was placed under a car about 70 meters (yards) from his house. It went off just before he left for work," a police official said. "It was really strong, it was aimed at Voulgarakis."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe...tion=cnn_world

Despite what some of these liberal countries think about the U.S.......they, themselves, are certainly not immune from terrorism. They are in it whether they want to be in it or not.

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Clintonite after Clintonite. My question is, "So when does this so-called CHANGE start?"

Its very difficult to say who did this with nobody claiming repsonisibility at least afaik atm.
Greece as the article alludes has had terrorist type problems since 1944.

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Probably because your the only one who thinks someone would say that. Rather than engage in substantive debates on points, when others critique elements of US policy you respond with absurd comments like that. As if somehow it addresses points such as how US actions in Iraq are endangering our relations with the rest of the world or if placing a fundamentalist Shiite government closely tied to Iran (and to creating a religious state in Iraq) really benefits us.

But it saves time I guess to do so.

Greece has had serious terrorist issues since the late 1910's reflecting signficant internal disagreemets between left and right. This is not exactly a new phenomenon.

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Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

I always felt I was unique. Thanks noetsi!

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

Well you are not quite unique but your certainly different

Most things in the world are not caused by the US one way or the other. We tend to overstate our importance.


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I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our fine young men, into battle. I have spoken to you today of the divisions and the forces and the battalions and the units, but I know them all, every one. I have seen them in a thousand streets, of a hundred towns, in every State in this Union--working and laughing and building, and filled with hope and life. I think I know, too, how their mothers weep and how their families sorrow.

This is the most agonizing and the most painful duty of your President.

What Bush should have said about Iraq.

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

Its hilarious that people speak of other countries as "liberal" as in somehow US values applied there. The countries that are getting attacked the most are the countries most involved in other nations affairs particularly in a military fashion.

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

I said more as in you know more...I did not say that terrorist were only attacking countries involved in military operations around the globe but that they were attacking them more commonly.

Count the number of attacks against the US and Britain and compare them to Greece and see which is higher.

Incidently, its quite possible this was due to entirely internal Greek issues, internal terrorism is not uncommon in that country as it is not uncommon in the US (it simply gets no press coverage here).

We had no attacks in the US before 9/11 either. We have had hundreds on us abroad.

Maybe we should follow Clinton's policies that resulted in zero foreign attacks on the US after 93 (actually that is silly but like the lack of attacks on the US after 9/11 it reflects were not avoiding attacks by fighting military campaigns abroad, but because the terrorist threat to the US is very limited).

Perhaps you should explain why there were no attacks in the US from 93-01 when we ignored terrorists, and no attacks in France or Germany which avoided combat in Iraq.