Posted on 11/27/2005 1:47:48 PM PST by redvers llewellyn
WHY HAS THIS DAMNING REVELATION BEEN FORGOTTEN? _________________________________________________________
Russia Warned U.S. About Iraq, Putin Says
By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 19, 2004; Page A11
Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that his intelligence service had warned the Bush administration before the U.S. invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein's government was planning attacks against U.S. targets both inside and outside the country.
Putin, who opposed Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq, did not go into detail about the information that was forwarded, and said Russia had no evidence that Hussein was involved in any attacks.
"After Sept. 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services, the intelligence service, received information that officials from Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist attacks in the United States and outside it against the U.S. military and other interests," Putin said, according to RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency. "American President George Bush had an opportunity to personally thank the head of one of the Russian special services for this information, which he regarded as very important," the Russian president told an interviewer while in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan.
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Not good news for the Dims at all.
I remember this story well. It made the last page of my local paper, in the bottom right corner. The major media barely mentioned it. Hmm, I wonder why.
Doesn't fit agenda?
Apparently not. Its old news. Happened last year. The media all but ignored it.
Putin lied. People died.
The headline maybe true, but I think Putie would love to have the USA enter their own Soviet version of the Afghanistan war, whether or not he had intelligence. Sometime information is really misinformation.
Putin manipulated this pre war intelligence
They will try to bury it.
Yes, I always rely on warnings issued by ex-Colonels of the KGB. Yesiree, I certainly do.
Preemptive strikes against Iraq are evil, unless they are done by Bill Clinton in retaliation for an assassination plot against Bush41 (that never came about).
Hannity mentioned this story a few times on his radio show, but it didn't fit into the MSM's political agenda and therefore the MSM ignored the story. Curiously, the MSM also wonders why most of the public considers them to be biased.
I understand why the MSM would try to ignore it, but why wouldn't the Conservatives trumpet it? Why wouldn't the Administration claim "smoking gun?"
How quickly they forget. Isn't it Pinkus who is running all over screaming about there being no WMDs?
The dimwits will dismiss it. Remember, if reality does not fit their agendas, they simply re-invent it.
That's a good point. While I don't think Putin was trying to set us up in this case, Putin's warnings were just one piece of information that would have to be analyzed along with all the other intelligence before any action was taken by the President.
Bump - Hey Republican leaders, get out in front with this after the recess!
That I don't know. It did create quite a stir on this site when it happened, but its a story that, for the most part, faded away quickly.
The Bush Admin was wise not to call this a "smoking gun", because the President can't make a decision about war based on intelligence from only one source. If we had two or three other countries going public with the same information, including a NATO ally, then Bush could push this harder. We may have had similar intelligence from other countries that was not made public. It's interesting that Putin made a public statement about this information.
Putin was in bed with the Iraqis. He, unlike us, had real spies on the ground there. We had Cahlabi and company. I wouldn't dismiss it so lightly.
"WHY HAS THIS DAMNING REVELATION BEEN FORGOTTEN? "
Yep, Exactly, it dosnt fit their anti-american template.
Because the Dims threw it down the Memory Hole.
Just registered with this site. Don't know what "bump" means.
I'm not dismissing it at all. It's probably accurate intelligence. I'm saying that the President can't make this kind of decision based on only one source, and politically it would look unwise to claim that intelligence from one source is a "smoking gun."
Bump means you're bumping this thread to the top of the message display in the main forum window. After anyone posts a reply the thread goes to the top of the list.
Thanks.
Putin, who opposed Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq, did not go into detail about the information that was forwarded, and said Russia had no evidence that Hussein was involved in any attacks.
Hah? Sodom's GOVERNMENT was planning the attacks but there's no evidence Sodom himself was involved???
WTH? Ohhhhhhh....I see what the Washington Post is saying. Sodom himself wasn't going to fly any of the airplanes into any of our skyscrapers or he wasn't going to personally drive a bomb-laden truck onto the Golden Gate Bridge or anything like that.
The Post is pathetic. Such length it will go to to exonerate Sodom Who's Insane.
Ha. It doesn't fit the agenda of the left - therefore, it must be supressed by the press and the Dems.
I'm with you....sounds like Putie is a little confused here at keeping his story
straight. Doesn't sound like reliable info to me. First he says that Saddam's government is planning these invasions of U.S., and U.S. targetsoutside this country, and yet he's against us going to war in Iraq? Seems like he is talking out of both sides of his mouth.
Me thinks...something is fishy!! Whew~~~~
I agree. I'll tell you what else is pathetic--how the once Democrap controlled Congress gutted the CIA. WE should have had agents on the ground in Iraq to back all this intelligence up.
Why, now, is Walter PINCUS remembering this?
The RATS have not only gutted the CIA, they've infiltrated it with anti-American sacks of crap like Valerie Plame.
This shouldn't be a surprise. BTW it took 60 years to find out that Hitler had planned attacks against New York.
Pincus and Mitchell and Woodward and Russert and Wilson can't get their facts straight, can't put together a consistent story line, and that's just fine with Fitz. Their contradictions and lies and memeory lapses are just fine, but Libby is a criminal for doing the same. It makes me sick.
Come on guys, none of this stuff is paid attention to by the Dhemmicrats!
Good point. Think about it. Woodward claims he told Pincus about Plame. Pincus says it's not true--he would have remembered something so important. Sounds a lot like Libby/Russert, doesn't it? Is Fitzgerald going to indict Woodward for lying to the GJ? Fits is shameless, indeed!!
I think Libby's legal team needs to be a bit Clintonite in preparing the defense. They need to point out all these contradictions and inconsistencies in all these other players, and situate Libby's inconsistencies within the same context, and make it look like everyone else is getting away with the same thing that Libby is charged with. They need to undermine the moral basis of the prosecution.
bttt
What??
This should be front page news somewhere. Anywhere!
It has been an incredible failure of this administration to effectively make the case for doing the right thing. The case has been there.
Bottom line folks ... if the Bushies can't get this sort of info out they aren't playing in the big league. There are ways to circumvent the liberal mainstream media ... if this report is true.
Bump, BTTT, means to reply to a thread for the purpose of keeping it current on the screen. This works for only a very short time since everything scrolls by rapidly.
It seems pointless to bump since the volume of traffic is so large. It might be a way of bookmarking a thread for oneself, or just saying 'hey'. The ping is more useful since a group with known or suspected interests can be called to a thread long after it has scrolled into the bit bucket.
1984 Again
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