Posted on 07/03/2005 10:49:08 AM PDT by jmc1969
SVETLOGORSK, Russia (AP) -- President Vladimir Putin has called on the world community to work with the United States to bring stability to Iraq, saying after meeting with French and German leaders that past disputes over the U.S.-led war should not prevent future cooperation.
Like France and Germany, Russia sharply opposed the invasion of Iraq and has expressed concerns about continuing violence and the increased attacks that have been blamed largely on Sunni Arab insurgents.
"All of the disagreements on the Iraqi problem must remain in the past," Putin said Sunday.
"We should be pooling efforts with the United States and with the countries that are present in Iraq today and that have assumed the function of promoting stability in that country in order to help the Iraqi people assume responsibility for its future."
French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder came to this city outside the Baltic Sea port of Kaliningrad at Putin's invitation to mark the 750th anniversary of the founding of Kaliningrad -- formerly Koenigsberg now a Russian enclave cut off from the rest of Russia by EU members Poland and Lithuania.
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Yeah, he must need something. Like help in some lower provinces.
Yes, Putin's definitely got something up his sleeve besides a hairy arm.
We need to take the cuffs off Vlad the Mad and let him do his work on the Chechens. They have been adverserial to us in the past, mostly on differences of economic systems and egotistical politicans on both sides. That aside, there has never been any clash betweeen Russia and America, nonewhatsoever, that would justify war, and they have been fighting Islamic terrorists dating back to the Khanate of the Golden Horde. The Russians are, in the fight against terrorism, the Watchmen on the walls of freedom. Let them do what they should have done all along, decimate the Chechens, leaving only a few to tell the tale (an effective tactic fighting Islamic terrorists, used also by Pershing in North Africa in the years leading up to WWI).
As for the insurgent battle in Iraq, the majority of the so-called insurgent are displaced Sunni nationalists (Saddam loyalists) displaced in the current political order--partially of their chosing, but mostly because the Shiites have downplayed what little remaining clout they had. They are fighting for a place at the table for the most part, and while a black mark on them, they are almost exclusively attacking Americans. The Jihadi terrorists, led by Zarqawi et al, are the ones attacking Iraqi police forces, Iraqi military forces, and Iraqi civillians. The Sunni insurgents have pretty much left their Shiite and Kurdish countyrmen alone.
Too little, too late
Does this mean Vladamir is willing to share the costs incurred in the past to bring Iraq to a state of Democracy?
I think not.
Well that is kind of what I was implying. They are closer than us to the source of the "problems" of late.
""All of the disagreements on the Iraqi problem must remain in the past," Putin said Sunday.
"We should be pooling efforts with the United States and with the countries that are present in Iraq today and that have assumed the function of promoting stability in that country in order to help the Iraqi people assume responsibility for its future." "
so , whatd'ya think ,... Bob Kraft let him keep the Super Bowl ring and he had a fundamental and deep change take place , WELL BLESS HIS LITTLE HEART [/srcsm]
What did he have up his sleeve when he came out 3 times and publically endorsed Bush over Kerry? Did Blair, Sharon or Berlusconi do this even once? No.
That was the Phillipines against the Islamic Moro, who now make up the Abu-Ni Saif, whom, by the way, we are again fighting.
Well they forgave $9 billion in debt, more then most of our "supporters".
Unfortunetly there is ZIP protecting the Mexican borders (to include the one shared with us).
I wonder where the haters are?
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