Putin's Iraq claim startles US officials

[whatelseisnew]

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/06/20/2003175786

This isn't new, but an interesting quote at the end of the article:

Putin's remarks could be interpreted as lending credence to the Bush administration's concerns over Iraq and whether it supported terrorism in the months before the war, but it was impossible to say how credible the Russian intelligence reports were.

A Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, declined to elaborate on Putin's remarks, but said that intelligence reports alone could not justify the use of force against another country.

"If we all start wars based on intelligence," Peskov said, "then it will be the end of the world."

[eaprez]

1. I Didn't Buy It...

...when I first heard it and I still don't buy it. We hear over and over and over again that Sadam "intended" to do harm to the U.S. Yet there is no history of that - but they keep saying it over and over again. I think for whatever reason Putin was just trying to save Dubya's a** - funny these pronouncements and announcements always come after questions about the administration - I'm just surprised it wasn't a terror alert as it typically is.

[FloridaPat]

2. Pravda has an English version. It is in there. Doens't make sense.

Of course, I think Russia was one of the countries that warned Bush of 9-11 too. That has come up on the commision yet about all the countries that gave a warning.