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You're right, I mis-worded that. I have no doubt they were involved...including the JDAM Busters they gave them just days before the invasion started. What amazes me is that they would even dream to think it would have done any good after the way "top soviet technology" worked so well against us in '91. I just don't see the pay out for them...could they have ever thought they would ever be able to cash those oil vouchers??? I know they Russians did some really stupid things during the cold war, but you would think they had figure out by now that their best efforts were never a match.

Sorry if I seemed to be a bit testy. No use lecturing you, you know as well as I that the Russian are essentially doing the same deal in Iran. They desperatly want to take the region over. They need warm water ports. Lots of gas/oil pipelines. They need to do all in their power to regain what they believe represents super power status. They must over a long period of time make sure socialism is the accepted means governance globally, regardless of the cute charades they attempt to deceive with in the mother country.
And above all they like the stupid Europeans must do all they can to oppose the US when it appears they can get away with it. Problem is they all are afraid of us from the economic as well as the military viewpoint.
As you quite aware, this whole Iranian nuclear weapon problem really rests on the Russians lap. Like they and the French primarily did with Saddam, the Russians are doing once again with the Iranians. Well as we know, since the Sha of Iran got the boot and the goons got in.
At any rate. As far as I am concerned, the cold war never went away, it just became a bit more, how should we say, lucent to the causual observer and for those that prefere to turn their heads away from the realities. GWB plays footsies with Vlad and company out of neccessity, not by choice.