Nevermind, even though the thread was yanked by the mod, I could get my post back and I'd copied the link. Here is the story about Russians being in Iraq just before we invaded.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/884529/posts
Here's an even better article. Talks specifically about Russian official with expertise in WMD and weapons clean-up being in Iraq days before outbreak of the war:
http://www.peterlevine.ws/iraqblog/archives/000141.html
Here is a quote:
"The Soviet bloc not only sold Saddam its WMDs, but it showed them how to make them "disappear." Russia is still at it. Primakov was in Baghdad from December until a couple of days before the war, along with a team of Russian military experts led by two of Russia's topnotch "retired"generals: Vladislav Achalov, a former deputy defense minister, and Igor Maltsev, a former air defense chief of staff. They were all there receiving honorary medals from the Iraqi defense minister. They clearly were not there to give Saddam military advice for the upcoming war—Saddam's Katyusha launchers were of World War II vintage, and his T-72 tanks, BMP-1 fighting vehicles and MiG fighter planes were all obviously useless against America. 'I did not fly to Baghdad to drink coffee,' was what Gen. Achalov told the media afterward. They were there orchestrating Iraq's "Sarindar" plan."
Please ping all who might be interested. Someone might want to send this to Drudge.