Bush and Putin make me think of Hitler and Stalin.

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All four are lying, thieving, murdering totalitarian despots. They really are nothing more than gangsters. They all make war for personal power and profit.

Pooty-Toot hates Kerry. The ex-KGB bootlick knows the jig's up if Kerry comes in and cleans out the BFEE. I seem to remember the other day where he actually endorsed Smirkelgrüber.

My question is: Where were these Russian "warnings" when Powell went to the UN before the illegal Iraq Invasion? That would've been the time to say something -- BEFORE the war, eh, Kommisar?

For whatever reason, it seems Putin -- for oil, power, Chechen genocide -- went to the mat for his buddy Bushler. As they would recognize the true nature of the new Vladdy Joe, it's understandable why no one told the State Department ahead of time:

Putin Says U.S. Was Alerted to Possible Attacks by Iraq

By STEVEN LEE MYERS
The New York Times
Published: June 19, 2004

MOSCOW, June 18 — President Vladimir V. Putin said Friday that Russia gave intelligence reports to the Bush administration suggesting that Saddam Hussein's government was preparing terrorist attacks in the United States or against American targets overseas.

But officials at the State Department expressed surprise, saying they knew of no such information from Russia, Reuters reported.

Mr. Putin said Russia's intelligence services received and passed along the information after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and before the American-led invasion of Iraq began in March 2003. He did not give details of the nature of the intelligence or the type of attacks reportedly being prepared.

Mr. Putin added, however, that Russia had no information that anyone in Iraq carried out the plans for attacks. And he emphasized that the intelligence did not change Russia's opposition to President Bush's decision to go to war, in part because of administration assertions of Iraq's support for terrorism. Mr. Putin said the criteria for resorting to military force were clearly defined and "were not observed" in the American-led war to overthrow Mr. Hussein.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/19/international/europe/19RUSS.html

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1. Remember the Kursk?

Pooty-Toot is a new Stalin. And that's good for business, BFEE-style.

Analysis

Putin's new human mask slips in trial of strength

President risks losing support of public

Nick Paton Walsh and Jonathan Steele
Monday October 28, 2002
The Guardian

The ghost of the Kursk submarine disaster has come back to haunt President Vladimir Putin, as he watches public support for his handling of the Chechen theatre siege threaten to unravel.

The sinking of the submarine two years ago was a sudden and finite tragedy. The president was on holiday in southern Russia and made the disastrous mistake of not taking immediate personal command of the rescue mission. He did not move quickly enough to try to save the sailors, refused foreign help and lied about the dishevelled state of the Russian navy's rescue equipment. Once the sailors perished, he tried to throw money at the disaster, the offer of raising the submarine to permit a proper burial being too little too late.

With the theatre crisis, Mr Putin faced a bigger test. Some lessons had clearly been learned from the Kursk. Throughout the siege the president repeatedly said human life was sacred. He ordered his security services to protect the lives of the hostages above all, and had Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the federal security service, promise the gunmen that their lives would be saved if they released all the hostages unharmed.

He branded Arbi Barayev's gang international terrorists in an attempt to compare the incident to America's war on terror rather than the brutality and failures of his war on Chechnya. He met with his advisers until late on the first evening, and spent his first night in the Kremlin flat, to show he grasped the severity of the incident.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,2763,820567,00.html

This is happening under Bush's watch. And like his Poppy, Smirko knows what it takes to control power and people. Remember how they use Saddam?