[Momaw Nadon]

Shame on Pootie Poot!

[elfman2]

More welcome good news to the economic health of a post Saddam Iraq.

[Bill Davis FR]

where are the 27 billion coming from?

[Mudboy Slim]

"Mr Bush's nickname for the Russian president is "Pootie-Poot".

I find this IMPOSSIBLE to believe...MUD

[dts32041]

Looks like Russian will be rebuilding Iraq after Saddam follows the way of Ozymendias.

[Consort]

No problem. He can continue the deal with a post-Saddam Iraq.

[harpo11]

President Bush masterminds brilliant military strategery that topples paramount "evil doer" Saddam, liberates the people and Putin stands ready to implement marketing strategery. Hey, open up those market bazaars!

[linn37]

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

[nunya bidness]

Pooty-poot ping!

[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! ;)