Posted on 11/27/2005 1:47:48 PM PST by redvers llewellyn
WHY HAS THIS DAMNING REVELATION BEEN FORGOTTEN? _________________________________________________________
Russia Warned U.S. About Iraq, Putin Says
By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, June 19, 2004; Page A11
Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that his intelligence service had warned the Bush administration before the U.S. invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein's government was planning attacks against U.S. targets both inside and outside the country.
Putin, who opposed Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq, did not go into detail about the information that was forwarded, and said Russia had no evidence that Hussein was involved in any attacks.
"After Sept. 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services, the intelligence service, received information that officials from Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist attacks in the United States and outside it against the U.S. military and other interests," Putin said, according to RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency. "American President George Bush had an opportunity to personally thank the head of one of the Russian special services for this information, which he regarded as very important," the Russian president told an interviewer while in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan.
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bttt
What??
This should be front page news somewhere. Anywhere!
It has been an incredible failure of this administration to effectively make the case for doing the right thing. The case has been there.
Bottom line folks ... if the Bushies can't get this sort of info out they aren't playing in the big league. There are ways to circumvent the liberal mainstream media ... if this report is true.
Bump, BTTT, means to reply to a thread for the purpose of keeping it current on the screen. This works for only a very short time since everything scrolls by rapidly.
It seems pointless to bump since the volume of traffic is so large. It might be a way of bookmarking a thread for oneself, or just saying 'hey'. The ping is more useful since a group with known or suspected interests can be called to a thread long after it has scrolled into the bit bucket.
1984 Again
Oh but see, he hadn't actually done anything yet! We should have waited until he killed a few thousand Americans and then made sure he had a fair trial with a good defense attorney! /sarcasm
Exactly! All this should be brought out in Saddam trail. I suppose Putin was going to warn us ...(not!)
Yep, there is the issue of how reliable Putin is. The Left used that argument when this story first came out.
What it means is that I am trying to keep the story near the top as it is important.
I also gave it a bump for a selfish reason, I wanted to have a post of mine own on this thread so that I could easily come back to this article in the future.
People bump an article to keep it up top in the current postings for other people to see and post on.
People also bump an article for self reference so that they can log into their own account look at their postings and rereference the article.
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