Posted on 12/18/2003 8:35:07 AM PST by TexKat
Moscow: Cautioning the United States against "imperial ambitions", Russian President Putin today said the US-led invasion of Iraq bypassing the UN Security Council was unjustified.
"Anything done without the sanction of the UN Security Council, cannot be accepted as just and justified," Putin said in an annual live televised question-answer session, adding "this is my very soft judgement."
Putin said: "In all the periods of the history of mankind the countries with imperial ambitions always suffered from a number of problems, which softly speaking, complicated their situation - these were their sense of invulnerability, sense of greatness and sense of infallibility.
"I earnestly hope, that this will not happen with our American partners."
Responding to a question from a soldier whether Iraq would become another Vietnam for the US, he said: "Russia is not interested in the USAs defeat in their combat against international terrorism."
"There were no international terrorists (in Iraq) under (Saddam) Hussein," he said.
However, Putin said he backed the US in its global combat against terrorism.
Putin's comments came before the arrival of US President George W Bushs special envoy James Baker tonight in Moscow to persuade Russia to write off USD 8 billion Iraq debt.
Yekaterina is a fox...would look good on FOX News!
That sounds like a typical bury your head in the sand statement. Since bad things happen all over the world then we should just ignore them all and do nothing. People are also starving all over the world so why should we try and feed them.
If we have to take these genocidal regimes down one at a time then yes we should do it. We'll have to do it since the UN doesn't have the will or the backbone to do it.
Saddam hid in a little spider hole. As Rummy said to the reporters the other day, "Imagine the quantity of biological agents that could be hidden in a spider hole the same size that the Rat was found in". Just because we haven't found anything does not prove that it doesn't exist.
That is as long as Dubya is in office. Don't even let me think about him not being. Makes me shiver.
I sure wish that the Iragi's would have completed telling the world what they really wanted to tell us during the 1st or 2nd week of Iraqi freedom, when Baghdad Bob and the Iraqi treasurer and etc. were given their press conferences at 3 a.m. eastern time.
In total frustration with their partners in crime (some members of the UN),they were so mad, sweating heavily and flies swarming round and round their heads, they were on the verge of revealing the corruption of their dirty little cohorts, but damn they held back what was really happning Damn, damn,damn.
Ahem...that would be moi!
We must believe Putin's every word, since he is our 'friend' (gag) :)
The goofy Putster should put a sock in it!!
Hey Putin: STFU!
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