It's time for Russia to choose our side in the Great Game

The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 14, 2003 | Barbara Amiel

[MadIvan]

I disagree with this article. Russia was caught spying on us. Therefore they should get nothing but the back of our hand across their face.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

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[stripes1776]

When I think of Russia, somehow I just don't get a warm, cosy, cumbaya, can't-we-all-just-get-along feeling.

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Didn't the 'Great Game' end with the partitioning of Persia in 1907?
Did they miss something, like say, WWI and WWII?

[Madcelt]

Therefore they should get nothing but the back of our hand across their face.

That would be far too kind my friend....

[Diogenesis]

Spying is the lesser of their evil offenses.

America was foolish to trust the corrupt deceptive Russian bear.

========= Iraqi television =========

Iraqi TV boasts that they have Russian antitank 'technology,
which was used to kill Americans, and it was
given after OK by Putin himself..

---

========= Terrorist Enabling Russian =========

On the trail of WMD/cruiseMISSILE/GPS-jammers/-selling Putin,
Putin disingenuously denied that Russian firms sold military equipment to Iraq
because there were intermediaries and retired agents.

[lainde]

bttt

[bert]

The spying is ok. Everybody always spies

Russia is broke and sells anything it can including intelligence. Dumb move to sell to Iraq before the conquest. The assumption was nothing changes. Even after the destruction of the Soviet Union, they did not learn that there is change.

[dvan]

Just look at that face (Putin). Who couldn't trust an honest, sincere face like that????

[whadizit]

Whoever chooses sides with the French is automatically an enemy. Seriously, the KGB still runs Russia and the Soviet mentality still exists. They cannot be trusted.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Just look at that face (Putin). Who couldn't trust an honest, sincere face like that????"

Actually, on seeing this photo, my first thought was how much Putin looks like a young John Paul II.

[Renfield]

"...For all Mr Blair's stellar qualities, his attraction to the miasmic notion of nation states joining together in an international jamboree is junior common room circa the 1960s..."...
"Late High Tea at 8 O'clock!"....Chocolate cake, hot tea, Socialist Dogma, and some unappreciated talent banging out R&B on an upright piano over in the corner. OOOHH, those were heady days......

[Renfield]

"...For all Mr Blair's stellar qualities, his attraction to the miasmic notion of nation states joining together in an international jamboree is junior common room circa the 1960s..."...
"Late High Tea at 8 O'clock!"....Chocolate cake, hot tea, Socialist Dogma, and some unappreciated talent banging out R&B on an upright piano over in the corner. OOOHH, those were heady days......

[laz17]

Given that the UN is little more than an assembly of clapped-out tyrannies, just how it can possibly confer legitimacy on anything is a delusion the now vanished Iraqi minister of information might envy.

Anyone who thinks the UN can confer legitimacy on anything is delusional. The UN is a global socialist mafia, corrupt to the core. It's not only irrelevant at this point, it is illegitimate. "International law" is just code for the global socialist agenda. For the UN to pretend they have the moral high ground and to portray the coalition as rogues is akin to gangsters claiming to be the law and portraying the police as the criminals. They refused to enforce their own resolutions, and they have the audacity to accuse the coalition of breaking the law by enforcing them. The UN has absolutely NO credibility whatsoever as any kind of governing body. They should stick to being nothing more than an international humanitarian aid agency, and stop pretending they're some kind of global cop. The US will handle the role of global cop.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I gave the Russians too much credit in the past. I honestly they thought they were a lot shrewder than to align themselves with a bunch of losers like France and Germany.

[DB]

Spying wasn't the issue. Actively arming and supporting our enemy in a active war is.

Perhaps arming the Chechnyens would make the connection a little clearer for Putin.

[DB]

I did too.

[Pee_Oui]

We need to pull ALL ($) Aid from Russia, France, and Germany. We need to assist only countries who back the coalition.

This would set a few back on their heels..

D

[Pee_Oui]

John Nyquist has been writing and trying to warn the people about Russia for years.

Don't know why he's not still on the WND Op-Ed staff. They're "never" to be trusted.

D