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Putin keeps options open on Iraq war - (Playing Global Chess )
The Orange County Register ^ | Friday, February 14, 2003 | DEBORAH SEWARD The Associated Press

Posted on 02/14/2003 1:45:08 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Edited on 04/14/2004 10:05:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

He appears to side with France and Germany but may not in the end.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: iraq; putin; russia

1 posted on 02/14/2003 1:45:08 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I agree, Russia just wants to get a slice of the pie, whereas the Germans and French just want to rub Bush's nose in it.
2 posted on 02/14/2003 1:47:44 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
Read this for another angle:

Mark Steyn: It's not really about Saddam

Nor is it about Bush directly!

3 posted on 02/14/2003 1:51:36 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Nuke Saddam ( Bush is thinking about it ) and then what about Germany and France?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Maybe Putin encourages France to stab us in the back, and then quietly shifts back to our side of the question, just in time to save his oil concessions. France is shafted.
4 posted on 02/14/2003 2:36:27 PM PST by marron
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Russia angling for the best handout they can get.
5 posted on 02/14/2003 3:36:01 PM PST by George W. Bush
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
On issues such as membership in the World Trade Organization, foreign investment, debt relief and help in fighting terrorists at home, it is Washington's voice, not Europe's, that counts for Putin.

This bears repeating.
6 posted on 02/14/2003 3:37:42 PM PST by tet68 (Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
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