[wvromania]

the US knew of this all along....there was no way the russians could get in and slip out that many trucks without our EYES in the Sky seeing it.

So this leaves you to think....could Putin have teamed with Bush to pull one over Saddam's eyes? Could they have hammered a deal before the war under secrecy? Could this be why Putin endorses Bush?

I bet more will come of this.....It also seems funny that all the republican senators were always blasting Germany and France but not Russia.

[Acrobat]

Either Putin thought he was gonna help out an old pal and then got caught in the eye-in-the-sky and has to cover his you-know-what, or he and Bush had it worked out...

[pnz1]

I hope so. I've always wondered why the Bush administration didn't hit back on the critics of "no WMD, blah blah blah" even after the Duelfer report came out.

[processing please hold]

Putin was riding the gravy train of Saddam. To be a good dictator you need lots of money. Putin didn't give a rats-a$$ for Bush. When the $hit started coming down, Putin took back his wmds that he sold Saddam and got the hell out.

Survival was on Putins mind.