On the afternoon of the first debate, I love to see President Putin announce that it is clear that Bush has the right approach, talking does nothing and terror must be stopped everywhere. He'd then offer Iraq 6 to 10 thousand troops to help democratize Iraq and root out the al-Qaeda there.
The crapweasels and their media spokespersons are still trying to sell the story that there is no connection between terrorism and Iraq. Who knows. But, they are pushing their opinion as fact.
THERE IS NO PROOF THAT IRAQ AND AL-QAEDA ARE NOT CONNECTED, there may be a lack of evidenece so far, BUT NO PROOF.
So, lets hope that Putin will now line up with Bush and Blair and urge France and the EU to get involved in what clearly is a fight instead of carping from the sideline.
Putin knows intimately that Iraq and al Qareda were connected. It was Russian intelligence that warned Bush, after 9-11, that another attack was coming and was supported by Iraq.
Unfortunately, in 2002, Putin aligned himself with the UN Axis of Weasels and failed to stand with GWB and Tony Blair in the War on Iraq, due to Russia's overriding commercial interests in dealing with Saddam Hussein (and maybe just a vestige of Cold War animus among the Russian military)
History is moving so quickly these days that all (except the French) have now realized the impact of their decisions made in the past 3 years. For Russia, better late than never.