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Russian opinion possibly changing directions to be more favorable to an attack on Iraq.

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According to Fox top Russian diplomats are meeting with Washington in the coming days. I think I heard this right: Putin is looking for ways to get support among his own government for a possible war on Iraq. Bush plans on using a top CIA guy to try and draw connections between Iraq and Al Queda, which will strike a chord among the Russian people who have suffered at the hands of Chechen terrorists. It mentioned at the end that at the least they expect an absention from Russia, but are still hoping for a yes. If that's the case the only remaining veto power members would be china and france. I've heard so little from China recently I wouldn't really expect them to veto if there is otherwise fairly strong support for an Iraq-attack, and it does seem like world opinion is going that way in light of things like the recent european union solidarity.
 
Putin should do what Stalin did, deport all the Chechens to Kazakh.. 😉

too bad its hard to split up the rebels from the honest citizens in situations like these
 
Why doesn't Bush just bribe them? I'm sure they'd support him for the right price.

Because the money has been right from the begining from Bush, But Putin needs something to tie Al Quaeda to Chechnya to sway his publics opinion in favor of a war with Iraq. The Oil Deals have been worked out, and the Money offered as an aid package was already on the table, Putin needs popular opinion to be in his favor if he is to back Bush, otherwise his political survival against rival parties would weaken enough for a challenge.

~wnied~
 
Originally posted by: wnied
Why doesn't Bush just bribe them? I'm sure they'd support him for the right price.

Because the money has been right from the begining from Bush, But Putin needs something to tie Al Quaeda to Chechnya to sway his publics opinion in favor of a war with Iraq. The Oil Deals have been worked out, and the Money offered as an aid package was already on the table, Putin needs popular opinion to be in his favor if he is to back Bush, otherwise his political survival against rival parties would weaken enough for a challenge.

~wnied~
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Tying Al Qaeda to Chechnya is going to be easy. Tying Saddam to Al-Qaeda will be hard if not impossible. The only thing that Saddam and Al-Qaeda have in common is that US is against them. If it wasn't for US, Al-Qaeda would be fighting Saddam or secular dictators like him.
 
And it's very disappointing that Bush has undermined a solid coalition against Al-Qaeda to go on his Iraq adventure.
After 9/11, the world was squarely behind the US. We were justified to remove Taliban and most of the world supported us. But now most of the world either disagrees or outright dislikes the US, because Bush has failed to make a convincing case to go after Saddam, and instead it looks like he is settling old scores.
 
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