Putin Doubts Iraqi Elections Under Foreign “Occupation” at Allawi Meeting

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/12/07/putindoubsallawi.shtml

President Vladimir Putin, meeting on Tuesday with Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has called the U.S.-led military campaign in Iraq a foreign occupation and said its activities there go far beyond fighting terrorism.

“You know how we feel about the war against terrorism,” the Russian Information Agency Novosti quoted him as saying at the Kremlin meeting with Allawi, who is in Moscow on a state visit. “We are united in your fight against it, we understand that the processes in Iraq go far beyond this problem.”

Reuters quoted the Russian president, who, despite his friendship with U.S. President George Bush, opposed the war in Iraq, as saying that he can’t imagine how an election can be organized in Iraq under foreign occupation.

“I also cannot imagine how you on your own will be able to restore the situation in the country and stop it from breaking up.”

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[rodeodance]

1. "under foreign occupation" te he--Peeuuutin got that one right on!!

[NYC Liberal]

2. What's wrong Pooty Poot....woh hoo woh hoo woh hoo?

Georgie's gonna throw a tantrum over this one!

[merh]

3. The neo-cons don't realize it, but GeorgiePorgie resurrected

what they give St. Raygun credit for putting to an end! The cold war is alive and well. Putin has already warned the weed that he has nuclear weapons and to stop interferring in Russia's business (Putin believes that the USofA (CIA) had a hand in encouraging the terrorist attack on the school). Now he calls us what we are - an occupying nation!

How can folks let this idiot destroy our world?

[Tempest]

4. Bush's interference in the former USSR countries is to blame

Bush's interference started long before the Ukraine elections.

[xultar]

5. Putin is putin the pootie tang on georgie porgie. Buhwaaaaaaaaa! n/t

[daleo]

6. Putin is getting back at Bush for the Ukraine

Putin may have no great love of democracy or the independence of sovereign states either, but he isn't going to sit back and let Bush play games.

[NNN0LHI]

7. And Afghanistan too

These are the kinds of statements the Reagan administration used to make about the USSR when they were "nation building" there. Thats what I thought of first anyway.

Don

[daleo]

9. I agree about Afghanistan

Russians have long memories, too.

[BadGimp]

8. But Putty Poot????

how can you say that things will deteroriate and they will not be able to "stop it from breaking up.”???

amazing

With only a basic understanding of Iraqi history one can easily see how Saddam actually held Iraq together. I am not accepting or agreeing with the way he did it just saying it was obvious we'd be here fs Georgie Boy invaded with anything less than a 400K army.

Now Putin lets slip that Irag WILL break up.

I wonder how those brave US and Colalition troops will feel when they realize they went to war, fought and some gave all, to create a theocratic Islamic State in Iraq.

[Disturbed]

10. A new Democracy-Iraq

After the U.S. Puppet Govt. wins the upcoming Iraqi elections the U.S. Military will stay there to defend the new Democracy for at least as long as it takes to subdue the colony. The Multi-Corps that have backed this colonization will not allow any U.S. Govt. to abandon the goal of controlling Iraq's realestate and resources.

The Hand-Over That Wasn't: Illegal Orders give the US a Lock on Iraq's Economy
by Antonia Juhasz

Officially, the U.S. occupation of Iraq ended on June 28, 2004. But in reality, the United States is still in charge: Not only do 138,000 troops remain to control the streets, but the "100 Orders" of L. Paul Bremer III remain to control the economy.

These little noticed orders enacted by Bremer, the now-departed head of the now-defunct Coalition Provisional Authority, go to the heart of Bush administration plans in Iraq. They lock in sweeping advantages to American firms, ensuring long-term U.S. economic advantage while guaranteeing few, if any, benefits to the Iraqi people.

The Bremer orders control every aspect of Iraqi life - from the use of car horns to the privatization of state-owned enterprises. Order No. 39 alone does no less than "transition from a … centrally planned economy to a market economy" virtually overnight and by U.S. fiat.

Although many thought that the "end" of the occupation would also mean the end of the orders, on his last day in Iraq Bremer simply transferred authority for the orders to Prime Minister Iyad Allawi - a 30-year exile with close ties to the CIA and British intelligence.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0805-07.htm

[VegasWolf]

11. Wait, didn't AWOL tell us Iraq was sovereign? n/t

[Vidar]

12. May be sour grapes, but Putin speaks the truth.