Re: Iraq

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:23:53 -0500, Joe Zitzelberger
<zberger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> >Some might call H.S. Truman himself the 'greatest asset the Kremlin had'.
>>
>> How did H. S Truman (no period after the S), give the Kremlin half of
>> Asia and a billion new subjects? How did Truman have these to give
>> away in the first place, and why didn't the Kremlin accept this gift?
>
>We could start with the Soviets grabbing the equipment of the well very
>well equipped Japanese 5th(?) Army in Korea/Mongolia after they had
>surrendered to the US. Those weapons were diverted to Mao Ze Dong &
>Chou En Li and used to destroy fledgling democracy in China. With
>friends like that...

China was not owned by the Kremlin, and those weapons did not make the
USSR comfortable about their back side.
.

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