[edpc]

The point is that the Russians not only can't be trusted, but they were looking to aid and abet Saddam....

They weren't the only ones. According to Betrayal by Bill Gertz, the French built Roland missile system was discovered. Some had manufacture dates after the weapons embargo was imposed. They maintained the systems must have been acquired through a third party, but I doubt it. Additionally, the book claims the Iraqis were supplied with GPS jammers by the Russians. They were supposed to disrupt the JDAMS munitions, but they were either destroyed by other systems or failed, fortunately.

[romanesq]

Yes, I do recall the issue on the French missile system as it also was in violation of the truce. This time though, it's not the French betrayal I'm concerned with, it's the alliance between Iran and Russia and what danger that poses to the world.

It's global and it's large and sadly eminent.

[Moose4]

I remember hearing talk about the Russian GPS jammers (an attempt to defeat GPS-guided smart munitions) three years ago at the time we were actually invading.

They aren't our friends, folks. There are few real friends on geopolitics, just countries with coincidental interests here and there. We'd do well to remember that with Russia.

}:-)4