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    Who are the men in blue?

    So after exporting toys and spies are the ChiComms now exporting their award winning policing tactics? After the Tiananmen Square Massacre you'd have thought that the ChiComm's would be focusing on better public relations.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...e_id=1770&ct=5

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    There is no shortage of things to complain about with this coming olympics.
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    yes. each is doing his or her "job".

    tibetan independence protesters will protest.

    local police will arrest any "law breakers".

    dudes in blue will make sure everyone "see" the torch among crowds of protesters, police, local people, even pro china gathering.

    however, most are pro olympics

    and most are pro peace.

    da lai la ma dilivered a speech to tibetan people inside tibet and the rest of the world on april 6th..

    "let us pray for a peace".

    http://www.canadaeast.com/news/article/260267

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    What a cluster ****.

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    I seriously think no country with unwelcome troops in anyone else's country should not be allowed to compete.
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    Wouldn't have much of an Olympics then

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    Quote Originally Posted by WinterPalm View Post
    I seriously think no country with unwelcome troops in anyone else's country should not be allowed to compete.
    Hmm....subject to interpretation as to what is "unwelcomed" and by whom.
    The US is "unwelcomed" in Iraq and A***hanistan, other than by the people they put in power, and even then...
    Canada is in the same boat in Afghanistan, there are dissidents there that don't want us there.

    I think its best to remember that Sports and Politics are NOT suppose to mix, boycotted Olympics only hurt the athletes, not the governments.
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    The US is "unwelcomed" in Iraq and A***hanistan
    I love how you speak with 110% authority on that subject.

    According to people I have spoken to who have come from the War and according to viable news sources it is the often the reverse.

    Funny how two people see things differernt.

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    I am sure there is a mixture of both.

    As with anything, there will always be opposing factions regardless of the sides.
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    Olympics shmolympics.

    politicized crap is more like it.

    thanks politics for ruining our competitions!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Black Jack II View Post
    I love how you speak with 110% authority on that subject.

    According to people I have spoken to who have come from the War and according to viable news sources it is the often the reverse.

    Funny how two people see things differernt.
    I guess all the IEDs are showering our soldiers with explosions of love.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Black Jack II View Post
    I love how you speak with 110% authority on that subject.

    According to people I have spoken to who have come from the War and according to viable news sources it is the often the reverse.

    Funny how two people see things differernt.
    Not 110%, but I think that it is naive to think that we are welcomed there, I mean the President of Iran walks around Baghdad, does Bush?
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    Historically, when city-states were invite to the Olympics, the original Olympics held at Olympia, they were to refrain from conflict.
    I think it's a good idea!

    It's sad but the most powerful nations on the planet with their armies are always sending goons with them wherever they go. Why do you think the G-8 has so much security? The elite are getting further and further away from what the average American, Chinese, or Canadian wants.

    The other day a bunch of Tibetian protestors put up signs in the audience at a Curling match...wtf? Do you somehow think Chinese atheletes (debatable in terms of curling...) are capable of telling their government what to do? It's like when people boo the American anthem here in Canada when America was campaigning to invade Iraq. Do you think American hockey players could go back and change Cheney's mind?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sanjuro_ronin View Post
    Not 110%, but I think that it is naive to think that we are welcomed there, I mean the President of Iran walks around Baghdad, does Bush?
    Maybe the president of Iran is using the guys in blue when he does.
    I quit after getting my first black belt because the school I was a part of was in the process of lowering their standards A painfully honest KC Elbows

    The crap that many schools do is not the crap I was taught or train in or teach.

    Dam nit... it made sense when it was running through my head.

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