[jimbo123]

Pootie Poot on Iraq WMDs:

Leaders of Russia, France, Germany meet on Iraq

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer

Friday, April 11, 2003

(04-11) 18:12 PDT ST.PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) --

President Vladimir Putin said Friday he welcomed the fall of Saddam Hussein, but called the U.S.-led war in Iraq illegitimate and a threat to international law.

Speaking after a summit with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac, Putin signaled Russia was ready to cooperate with U.S.-led coalition forces on reconstruction, saying Moscow would consider writing off Baghdad's debts.

But Putin also criticized the United States for failing to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which he said was the only justification for war.

"Even in the most acute moment of the fight for its survival, the Iraqi regime did not use such (weapons)," Putin said. "If in the last moment of its existence it did not use them, it means they do not exist."

[Allegra]

"If in the last moment of its existence it did not use them, it means they do not exist."

Bull-malarkey. It means no such thing.

Nice try, though, Putin.

[cookcounty]

Wow, Putin in deep denial of WMD already on April 11th! "Sarindar" already implemented!!