Putin Takes Bush's Side Against Democrats on Iraq

[cal04]

The Kremlin leader, answering a reporter's question in Sea Island, Georgia, suggested that the Democrats were two-faced in criticizing Bush on Iraq since it had been the Clinton administration that authorized the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia by U.S. and NATO (news - web sites) forces. The reporter had asked Putin to respond to U.S. press articles questioning Russia's place at the G8 feast of leading industrial countries.

The reporter had asked Putin to respond to U.S. press articles questioning Russia's place at the G8 feast of leading industrial countries.

Putin brushed these off, saying such articles were part of an internal U.S. political debate. He went on: "I am deeply convinced that President Bush's political adversaries have no moral right to attack him over Iraq because they did exactly the same.

"It suffices to recall Yugoslavia. Now look at them. They don't like what President Bush is doing in Iraq." Russia was adamantly opposed to the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, as it has been to the U.S.-led military operation Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).
At the same time, Putin forged a strong friendship with Bush by offering immediate support in the global fight against terrorism. Both men go out of their way now to avoid criticizing each other publicly.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040611/pl_nm/campaign_putin_dc_1

[David Dunham]

1. Kerry should not support loans to Russia after he wins.

[Zynx]

2. And Bush shouldn't trust Putin. At all.

The guy is (ex)KGB. He's playing Bush and owning him. He has been since Day One.

[AlCzervik]

3. Putin should really just zip it

i mean does really have any spare time to critique democrats here, surely turning Russia into an repressive authoritarian state must keep him busy.

[Vickers]

4. Hey Putin, straighten up your own country

And we'll tend to ours, mmm-kay?

[LittleApple81]

5. Exactly. n/t

[digno dave]

21. Bush is taking lessons from Putin in how to fix elections

Or maybe i have that backwards?

Believe me, putin doens't want any grief from the americans regarding the shady aspects of his most recent "re-election"

[jeff30997]

6. rasPutin can kiss my asscroft !

That guy is a corupted son of a bitch.Just look what he's doing in Chechnya! He should be called Vlad the empalor. :puke:

[Zynx]

8. More like Vlad the Immolator

Use of FAE's against Grozny was pretty nasty.

[Fone Book]

7. Yugoslavia war was nothing like Iraq war

Clinton didn't lie about Yugoslavia- he told everyone exactly why he was going there. Clinton never said "fuck the world, fuck the UN, we're doing this whether you like it or not." Clinton had a REAL coalition. He wasn't going to give no-bid contracts to his corporate buddies. Yugoslav war was actually a war to stop an aggressor- not an imperialistic war.

Putin better hop off Bush's dick and stop runnin his mouth about shit he don't know nothing about.

[Zynx]

9. Putin just likes Dub to think he's on his dick

Actions speak louder than words and Putin has screwed Bush every chance he's gotten. Say one thing ("I hate Islamic terrorists too") that doens't require him to do anything, do something else (sell Sunburn and Su-27's to China in bulk, wave veto around in UN, sell Kornets to Syria and Iraq).

Speaking in favor of Bush here and against the Democrats is nothing for him; he's not exactly going to do anything that isn't in his own interest anyway. The Russians are one of the few nations who are really good at diplomacy.

He (or Ivanonv, their FM, I forget which) also responded to Powell calling the recent elections in Russia undemocratic by saying something to the effect of "They were more democratic than your 2000 election."

[AlCzervik]

10. hey Vlad

[progressivebydesign]

15. Hey! LOVE your graphic!! N/T

[PROGRESSIVE1]

11. KGB Commie turned Capitalist Putin needs to decide where....

he stands and also fix his own country!

[pezcore64]

12. oh my no! haha

<Sarcasm>
Surely he wouldnt be sour over us taking care of his business in Yugoslavia!
</end sarcasm>

We almost shot his troops from what I recall. Since he just brought them in and took bases without telling anyone. Doesnt take a rocket science to figure he prolly didnt like us in the former soviet state. Id consider myself a socialist by many respects, but putin and his 'communist' party can go to hell! exploiter of the working class!

[DoBotherMe]

13. Hedging his bets?

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to cancel 65 percent of the Iraqi debt and is also linking the move to the ability of his country's businesses to operate in Iraq, a Russian official said.

He quoted Putin as telling Bush that "our flexibility will depend on yours and the capacity of our businesses to work in Iraq."

http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20040610212341710

[Wickerman]

14. So, now Bush* has Putin and Al Queda in his corner? Cool.

we can do better than that.

[gulliver]

17. And Jiang Zemin, Pervez Musharraf, ...

Moammar Khaddafi, ...

Bush has done great things for these guys. They are all indebted to him.

[qanda]

16. Forbidding dissent...

How democratic of him. /sarcasm

[LTR]

18. Well, he's got the commies on his side!

Like minds, I guess.

[Aidoneus]

19. Bush needs Putin..

You know how some people try to make themselves look thinner by standing next to somebody much heavier than they are? Bush needs to stand next to Putin in order to make his own butchery look not quite as atrocious.. sure, W's crusade has slaughtered 50,000 people in Iraq. His new pal has twice that, and the guy before P adds that much more to the table. So W's looking pretty good right now. BUT.. P's had 5 years to rack up such an atrocious "body count", W not even a full year.

At least this may shatter American liberals' love affair with Pooty Poot, and instead see him for what he is.

on edit: oops, didn't mean to post this as a reply to #18, but to the original.. oh well.

[Tellurian]

20. Good point-

And Putin needs a new oil contract, replacing contracts lost with the deposing of Saddam.