Posted on 11/03/2004 11:42:42 AM PST by 4kevin
Russian President Vladimir Putin led world leaders' tributes to George W. Bush's victory in the U.S. presidential race, saying it meant Americans had not allowed themselves to be cowed by terrorists.
"If Bush wins... I can only feel joy that the American people did not allow itself to be intimidated, and made the most sensible decision," Putin said at a Kremlin news conference after talks with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
He was speaking before Democratic challenger John Kerry conceded victory to Bush in Tuesday's vote.
Ex-KGB agent Putin and former oilman Bush have forged a close relationship that Russian opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq has not derailed and have been united in the struggle to derail Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda movement.
"I am convinced that international terrorism gave itself the goal of not allowing the re-election of Bush. The statement by bin Laden in the final stages of the pre-election campaign is the best confirmation of this," Putin said.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
Good for Vlad!! Bush and Putin are going to be a great terrorist fighting team the next four years...
Eggggcellant!
Is Putin up for re-election anyway soon?

Happy hunting!
Rootin', tootin' Putin!
My sentiments exactly. We are not Spain.....
As for Vlad Putin, let's go get some ragheads, it's open season!
OK Vlad what do you want?
I see a lot of death coming to terrorists of all stripes in the next four years.
Bush is the farthest thing from an appeaser; Kerry looks like one.
The Muslim terrorists know that Bush will go after them with a vengeance.
Bin Laden has his work cut out for him (assuming that he follows through with his threats of hitting back at the red states).
What's the raghead word for county? My state (NJ) went for Kerry, but my county (Sussex) went solid for Bush and sent conservative Scott Garrett back to Congress representing the 5th distict. I hope that turd eating goat humper will take into account I did everything I could to make NJ a red state.
There's no fervor like that of a new convert to anti-Islamism.
I think if you have the opportunity to see the red - blue county breakdown across the country, you'll see that there are VERY few counties that are blue. They must have very dense (in more ways than one) populations.
Cool, but what is OBL saying?
They get it. They really get it.
Spin, spin, spin.
Could have called Bush "Ex Baseball Team owner" or both of them "committed Christians".
Why aren't the tanks rolling into Fallujah yet!!!!!!?
any idea how passaic county turned out?
Well, 51% of us aren't........
It's the other 49% that the terrorists, the Democrats and the Liberal news media put their money on.
Passaic:
Kerry 91,939 55%
Bush 73,568 44%
Sussex:
Bush 42,085 65%
Kerry 22,282 34%
Sussex County representing! We may be small, but we vote like Georgia or Alabama, and I take pride in that!
see monmouth county ?
IIRC, he won re-election last year. I THINK Russia has a term limit he's now up against, but do not quote me on whether it does (or whether Putin is of a mind to follow it).
It's all here:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/NJ/P/00/index.html
Monmouth was 55/44 for Bush.
CENTCOM sees, and waits....
oh i know, I was at the firehouse at 5:45 with shorts t shirt and flops, high fives all around.
The one nand only named source for that story was a man named "Shaw" a supporter of Chalabi and who is under investigation by the FBI - and his words are just specu;ation based o the hearsay of two un-named Europeans.
Wise up. You were had.
"Ex-KGB agent Putin and former oilman Bush"
Good ol' CNN.
Liberal media bias is in the grace notes. Do they think we're too unsubtle to see it?
Umm, what's this got to do with it Cnn?
Putin enacted a 13% flat income tax.
Wish we had that here, or a national sales tax.
YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!!
Don't put words in my mouth. There are other sources that indicate Russians were there (or still there) shortly before we got there. I did not claim to know what they were doing. I'm saying that it seems likely that Putin does not want us to know.
Ping!
This is Grrrrrrreat news!
Ping!
This is Grrrrrrreat news!
Bull - all those other sources reference the WT articles as the source.
PS: Yes -a handful of ex Soviet air defense people serving as mercenaries were in Iraq for obvious reasons but that had nothing to do with the missing WMD or explosives.
Ah, c'mon. You mean to see you can't see what little game CNN is up to here?
Why dodn't they instead refer to them as "President Putin and President Bush" instead of using Democrat talking points portraying them in roles which they no longer hold nor roles in which they now operate as friends?
I haven't seen CNN refer today to Kerry and Edwards as "Former Vietnam War Protestor and Ambulance-chasing trial lawyer", have you?
Wake up and smell the coffee.
Perhaps they are tired of getting their butts kicked?
Good for Vladimir. And he has a good point -- Osama bin Laden, though I wouldn't dream of thinking the mass murderer, did help us in his sick little rich boy gone wrong way.
Yeah, now Osama has to "keep his word" (RIIIIGHT) and not attack DC, NY, or CA.
"I see a lot of death coming to terrorists of all stripes in the next four years."
We are waiting for the KGB and Mossad to reach out bring death to the super rich who have financed terrorism which has killed innocents around the world.
When about a dozen of these super rich elites and their organizations take a dirt nap, terrorism will shrink down to very minimal actions.
Of course all leaders like Ben Laden must stop breathing and uttering threats soon.
I wonder if Chirac had called yet?
Well looks like we can eliminate a lot of candidates from the John Kerry "a lot of foreing leaedrs want me to be elected " list. Hell even Chirac gets eliminated (sort of). Now, conspicuous by their absence from the list of quotes are Kim Il-Jong, Yasser Arafat, The Mad Mullahs of Iran
Ochin xhorosho.
If anybody from Russia sees this, we are still in mourning with you over the loss of your children and adults at that school.
Together, we ~WILL~ avenge our dead!
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