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Iraq war unjustified: Putin
Sify News ^ | 12/18/03

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gasputin; iraq; iraqifreedom; putin; russia
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To: TexKat
>>> Anchorwoman Yekaterina Andreyeva sits at left.<<<

Yekaterina is a fox...would look good on FOX News!

41 posted on 12/18/2003 11:44:30 AM PST by HardStarboard (Dump Wesley Clark.....he worries me as much as Hillary!)
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To: Norse
Except he is sowing those conflicts, encouraging opponents to oppose us, arming them, flaking for them diplomatically, and trying to defeat us. He is just failing at it.
42 posted on 12/18/2003 12:00:57 PM PST by JasonC
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To: HardStarboard
We should acknowledge that many Russians are just as anti-American, if not more so, than their fellow Europeans. The average people are still mad that we won the Cold War and destroyed the Soviet world they knew, without giving any of them a free ride.
43 posted on 12/18/2003 12:20:43 PM PST by Democratshavenobrains
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To: Norse
The fact is, what happened under Saddam happens elsewhere in the world. Should we invade the world?

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.

44 posted on 12/18/2003 1:11:34 PM PST by OneRatToGo
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To: AIC
The U.S. will be doing things different in the future. No more soft touch.

That is as long as Dubya is in office. Don't even let me think about him not being. Makes me shiver.

45 posted on 12/18/2003 2:37:32 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: over3Owithabrain; HardStarboard
I just wanted to see who would be the first to respond on the young anchorwoman's appearance. LOL
46 posted on 12/18/2003 2:40:39 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Tolik; MEG33
The UN is/was corrupt, ran by corrupt money grabbing men.

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.

47 posted on 12/18/2003 2:55:01 PM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: TexKat
Texcat - I may be old, but I ain't dead or blind! She has fantastic looks and gobs of class. But I think Putin may have dibs!
48 posted on 12/18/2003 4:22:24 PM PST by HardStarboard (Dump Wesley Clark.....he worries me as much as Hillary!)
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To: TexKat; over3Owithabrain; HardStarboard
I just wanted to see who would be the first to respond on the young anchorwoman's appearance. LOL

Ahem...that would be moi!

49 posted on 12/18/2003 10:31:43 PM PST by rogue yam
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To: TexKat
Putin:......"this is my very soft judgement."

I don't think Putin will openly criticize us very strongly because he needs his alliance with the U.S. and President Bush. Putin's greatest threats right now are terrorism (Chechnya) and Soros' Open Society Institute taking him down like they did Shevradnadze in Georgia.
50 posted on 12/19/2003 10:06:41 AM PST by windchime
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To: michaelt
And since Putin has shut down all the private TV networks,==

He didn't shut down private networks. 1 of them just bankrupted and few others still there. For example: NTV and RenTV. Both are private networks.
51 posted on 12/19/2003 10:17:53 AM PST by RusIvan
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To: blackie

We must believe Putin's every word, since he is our 'friend' (gag) :)


52 posted on 12/20/2005 6:25:54 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: M. Espinola

The goofy Putster should put a sock in it!!

Hey Putin: STFU!


53 posted on 12/21/2005 8:21:27 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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