Putin, urging date for Iraq withdrawal, chides US for "pointless...fight with a people"

[BurtWorm]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7050237.stm

Putin wants US date to quit Iraq

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the US should set a date for a withdrawal from Iraq.

He was speaking during a live televised question-and-answer session with the public covering both domestic and foreign policy issues.

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Mr Putin told viewers that the US presence in Iraq was motivated in part by a desire to "establish control of the country's oil reserves".

But he said the US was now engaged in a "pointless" battle against a popular uprising.

"One can wipe off a political map some tyrannical regime... but it's absolutely pointless to fight with a people," he said.

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1. Putin-Clinton '08?

If we need a murderous dictator to point out the obvious...

[BurtWorm]

2. No kidding!

:hi:

I'd nominate him for a Nobel if he hypnotized Bush into withdrawing from Iraq, though.

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4. I don't know about his hypnosis skills

but I bet in his KGB days he got pretty good with a truncheon

[BurtWorm]

5. That's what Bush really needs.

If not a little radioactive Happy Halloween card.

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6. ROFL

Sick, but in a thoughtful, caring way :thumbsup:

[ShortnFiery]

3. Hey, they're a tag team ... they feed off of each other to keep us peasants FRIGHTENED

and compliant to authoritarian rule and endless war. :(

[NYVet]

7. Does he mean like his fight with the Chechans?

I mean, that has been going on for how many years?

Oh wait, that is an internal matter and we can't talk about that. :sarcasm:

[YankmeCrankme]

8. Not to defend Putin as I think he is a dangerous and anti-democratic, but...

your analogy is flawed. I don't believe Chechnya was ever an independent nation-state and was a part of Russia for several centuries. So, its situation would be more inline with an attempted succession/civil war. So it is an internal matter, more like the US's own war of succession.

Iraq is an occupation by an invading nation.