Posted on 10/26/2007 6:39:00 AM PDT by dennisw
FWIW
Did this really happen? Only Vlad’s hairdresser knows for sure and the Ayatollahs ain’t talking
Okay.
I ran across this article and have not seen it anywhere. It is 10 pages long and quite a read. I am not knowledgeable in this area at all nor do I know how Esquire leans or how they might chop up their articles. The people the story is about were employed in the Bush Administration. It causes me to question what is really going on.
http://www.esquire.com/features/iranbriefing1107
If true, Puty may have to put his money where his mouth is.
Putin’s an idiot who embraces the age-old Russian dream of a warm-water port on the Gulf; he believes he can control the Moslems but little realizes that future generations of his countrymen will be speaking Farsi and bowing to Mecca.
Is that anything like an "un-named high level source"? When I see the video of Putin spelling out exactly what he will do, then I will take it seriously.
Its so cute when cubs growl, and thats an accurate description of Russian military capability.
Lets not forget Putin lost in Chechnya.
Have it your way Pooty Poo.
Putin’s not that big and idiot...he could have said this tongue and cheek...but he isnt going to go to War to protect the Iranians...
We might bomb the Iranians from the 7th century AD they live in to 450 B.C, but Putin will still get his oil...and he knows that...
Would Putin lie to the Iranians? Oh no, of course not. ;-)
When Pooty Poot is looking at the prospect of a bunch of empty silos on the U.S. Trident submarine fleet (contrasted with his subs who have a nasty tendency to blow up underwater, ala ‘Kursk’), plus a fleet of B-2 and B-1 bombers able to deliver nukes anywhere on Russia, and those ‘launch-on-warning’ capable Minutemen missiles still in their land based silos, he will ask himself if Iran is worth seeing Mother Russia destroyed over, and that’s when he’ll send the inevitable telegram to Madmood Ahbinjerkinoff that says “sorry, can’t help you this month, try back later. If there IS a ‘later’ that is...”
Ledeen mentioned this meeting between Putin and Khamenei
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914918/posts
And if you haven’t seen this, it’s interesting........”Red Army Dreams - You’re getting colder.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916317/posts
“Putin’s an idiot who embraces the age-old Russian dream of a warm-water port”
But he knows Judo,....”HIYA!” (extend flat hands out from body while bending knees)
Remember, when the MSM was predicting WWIII because we mined Haiphong harbor in Vietnam, and killed a few Russian sailors in the process, Gromyko’s response was “You gotta do what you gotta do.”
That’s an empty bluff. Russia has no will to go nuclear in defense of Iran, and conventionally Russia would get quite bloodied in any confrontation with the United States.
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