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To: BradtotheBone
Putin suggested that Iraq had been invaded because of its oil wealth and assured one caller that energy-rich Russia could not suffer the same fate. To think so, he said, was "political erotica."

Putin is delusional if he thinks we would WANT to invade Russia for it's "riches".

Can you imagine the economic drain that would be?

PUTIN, we want to be partners in freedom. You are the one who wants to be OUR adversary.

7 posted on 10/18/2007 4:13:28 PM PDT by SteamShovel (Global Warming, the New Patriotism)
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To: SteamShovel
Russia has enough force and resources to protect its interests both in the territory of the country and in other countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced today answering a question during a phone-in that former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright allegedly said that the resources in Siberia belong to Russian on an unjust ground. “I am not acquainted with the statement made by Madeleine Albright, but I know that such ideas occupy minds of some politicians,” Putin said. “Such political erotic can and will make someone satisfied, but will not result in anything. An example of it is the events in Iraq. A small country that cannot protect itself, but has vast resources. They learned there how to shoot, but failed to put things in order. Because fighting against people is an affair that has no prospects.”

Does anybody know, if Madeleine Albright ever made such statements? If so, what was the context?

29 posted on 10/18/2007 6:32:15 PM PDT by tetuhe1898
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To: SteamShovel
Putin is justified to worry that Russia will be invaded to take over its natural resources.

But its not the Americans, its the Chinese or the Muslims who will do it, gradually and relentlessly. The Chinese and Muslims will just move in, as the Russian population in Siberia and southern Russia gets smaller and smaller as Russian women have fewer and fewer babies and younger women continue to abort their babies so casually, the typical Soviet style of birth control.

Putin is whistling past the graveyard and looking over his shoulder looking at old cold war ghosts while he should be looking at the red dragon and the jihadists lying in wait just ahead...

44 posted on 10/26/2007 11:04:34 AM PDT by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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