Putin Takes Bush's Side Against Democrats on Iraq

[AmyStrange]

Putin Takes Bush's Side Against Democrats on Iraq
Thu Jun 10, 8:41 PM ET

FROM: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&ncid=584&e=9&u=/nm/20040611/pl_nm/campaign_putin_dc
SEA ISLAND, Ga (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) stepped into the U.S. political campaign on Thursday, saying the Democrats had "no moral right" to criticize President Bush (news - web sites) over Iraq (news - web sites).

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.

Putin brushed these off, saying such articles were part of an internal U.S. political debate.

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