Tragedy for Poland

[sirs]

Their President and his wife have died in a plane crash, on approach to a Russian airport

[Christians4LessGvt]

The more I read about the Polish President the more I worry and have a bad feeling about this one.

In the 1970/1980's the Polish President Lech Kaczyński was an activist in the pro-democratic anti-Communist
movement in Poland, later jailed as an "anti-socialist element".

In 2008 following the military conflict between Russia and Georgia, Polish President Lech Kaczyński provided the
website of the President of Poland for dissemination of information blocked by the Russian Federation Georgian
internet portals. Several high level gvt officials, military officers and generals were also on this doomed flight.

The Polish President was Pro-American and an enthusiastic backer of plans to build a U.S. missile defense facility
in Poland, the largest of the European Union's new eastern members.

I guess we'll see......

[Kramer]

The more I read about the Polish President the more I worry and have a bad feeling about this one.

In the 1970/1980's the Polish President Lech Kaczy?ski was an activist in the pro-democratic anti-Communist
movement in Poland, later jailed as an "anti-socialist element".

In 2008 following the military conflict between Russia and Georgia, Polish President Lech Kaczy?ski provided the
website of the President of Poland for dissemination of information blocked by the Russian Federation Georgian
internet portals. Several high level gvt officials, military officers and generals were also on this doomed flight.

The Polish President was Pro-American and an enthusiastic backer of plans to build a U.S. missile defense facility
in Poland, the largest of the European Union's new eastern members.

I guess we'll see......

doesn't seem like the kind of guy Obama would hang out with.

[sirs]

From what I've read, sounds like the pilot made a bad decision to try and land in some very thick fog.  Of course one could argue, he wouldn't have tried without the OK from President Kaczyński.  In either case, initial indications appear to point towards very bad judgement & human error

[Christians4LessGvt]

[sirs]

 

[kimba1]

if i read it right not just the president,several high ranking people were on that plane.meaning the lost is alot greater than it seems

[sirs]

Absolutely     

[Christians4LessGvt]

I guess The Katyn Massacre was more of the Commi Stalinist horror...
but this isn't near as bad as water-boarding 3 guys!



"Katyn, Russia, April 1943. The Germans discovered here the bodies of 4,500 Polish
officers buried in mass graves. A Red Cross commission concluded that they had been
killed by Soviet troops in the spring of 1940, when around 25,000 people disappeared.
Katyn came to be a symbol of mass murder and official lies. Until 1989 the Communist
government in Poland and Communists throughout the world attributed the massacre
to the Germans. 22,000 Polish officers, policemen, and civil servants were murdered
by the Soviet Secret Police."

[sirs]