[OpusatFR]

Now just why would Russia help Saddam?

Are they hoping to put him back in power after a protracted terrorist/guerilla war backed by Russia and its proxies in the ME like Syria and Lebanon?

Are they holding him to ship him to another state?

Are they keeping him from trial at which a whole lot of problems could come out in conjunction with a paper trail that indicts Putie Poot?

Are they going to stick their feet into this and begin to back Saddam by sticking Russian troops into Iraq thus really starting a hot war?

You are either with us or against us...

[ewing]

The Russian Intelligence Service did get away with the Iraqi Secret Douments when the CIA tried to take out the convoy in Iraq the other day.

I would guess it is the sale of stinger tank busting missile sales to Iraq through an intermediary.

[mabelkitty]

They don't have the military might.

However, I agree the goal of Russia and France is to place a Saddam sympathizer (playa) in charge of the government to keep the blood oil contracts.

[MadIvan]

Now just why would Russia help Saddam?

Simple. They will hand over Saddam only on condition their Iraqi debts get paid.

Regards, Ivan

[green team 1999]

Now just why would Russia help Saddam?

saddam did not pay yet for five billion dollars of russian military equipment. russians want their money.

[Robert_Paulson2]

Turkey Russia France and Germany....
defacto... they are in a state of WAR with us.

This has been the ultimate "show your cards" play by the bush administration... HE KNEW who the REAL State Sponsors of terrorism were... and are.

Now 80 percent of America knows.

I still suspect we will be at WAR in a physical way with FRANCE by year's end... along with their allies in obstruction, TURKEY and RUSSIA....

I look for Kurdish "extremism" to be the excuse for FRANCE TURKEY AND RUSSIA to mount their own invasion of the north of Iraq... They have been warned.

They will not listen as this, to them, is not about oil, or Iraq, or the UN... this is about denying America, Britain and Australia and associated allies... the supremacy of of world dominance that we share, and that the USA leads. Plain and simple... they did NOT like the end of the cold war... and are appealing for the instant replay, to try and get US off the top of the pile.

They are fools.
What makes them think we will play as "nicely" with them, as we have with the IRAQIS....

"In the end there can only be one..." (Highlander)

[El Gato]

Are they keeping him from trial at which a whole lot of problems could come out in conjunction with a paper trail that indicts Putie Poot?

Or possibly a faction in the Russian government unfriendly to Putin? The retired Soviet generals who are said to have done the command and control bit for Saddam are also said to be from an anti Putin faction. I haven't a clue, but it's about as likely as Putin doing the deed, IMHO. He doesn't need the aggravation right now.