Blow for Bush as Russia agrees £27bn Iraq deal

www.telegraph.co.uk ^ | Filed: 19/08/2002 | David Rennie in Washington and Ben Aris in Moscow

[linn37]

its a win win for russia either way ,they are getting some loot

[nunya bidness]

Pooty-poot ping!

[elfman2]

ROTFLMAO!

[Welsh Rabbit]

I don't blame Putin at all. The Russians are probably raping Saddam six ways from Sunday. I would not want to be Saddam's people going up against Russian negotiators.

I agree. The Russians are very shrewd and unscrupulous operaters (after all, they gave us a run for our money for awhile); an ignorant, backwards peasant like Saddam is just going to get hosed...

[GOP_1900AD]

Idiotic statements (many of these seen previously here on Free Republic, and, to our shame, written by people who claim to be either Rightists or Conservatives....):

1. "The Cold War is over, come out of your bunker."

2. "The Russians are our friends / allies."

3. "The Russians look Westward , Eurasianism is dead."

4. "Russia `fights terrorism' in Chechnya, therefore, we are in league."

5. "The Russian military has fallen apart."

6. "Russia and the PRC are enemies." [This fiction was started during the 1960s based on what we thought were border conflicts. It also was a key point in wishful thinking that allowed the quasi RINO Nixon administration to justify backing off on our goals of military capability to be able to win a war against the Eastern Bloc. Being duped into believing in the "China Card" shall go down in history as an epic error in Western geopolitical strategy.]

7. "Russia is owned by the West."

8. "Russia is capitalist now."

In response to these fictions, I have the following cutting questions:

A. Why was there never a formal treaty to end the Cold War?

B. How come none of the Communists (save those in Romania) were ever punished or, even, banned from future positions of power?

C. Why were the disarmament provisions so limited?

D. Why is it that, for all intents and purposes, Russia continues to arm the same client states they armed when they were the USSR, and why have they added new ones such as the PRC, Myanmar and a number of nations in Africa?

ANSWERS!!! I WANT ANSWERS!!!

Good day! ;)

[Askel5]

(so far so good ... all of a sudden the header dawned on me and I whipped off the bandana -- Fred25 suggested -- to come see if it were true ... )

Looks like Russia puts her money where her mouth is. The most pithy and elegant "nyet nyet Nanette" thus far.

I'm almost afraid to read any of the comments but Belmont_mark's ... bet everyone's got our Friend's latest move all figured out. The pragmatists, anyway. =)

[Eternal_Bear]

Whatever happened to "you are either for us or against us?"
Will Bush add Russia to the axis of evil? Turkey is also considering a massive economic deal with Iraq. With allies like these......

[Orion78]