Same Old Russians

I have always believed that Russia was an enemy to the United States, even since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The only reason they are not a super power today is because their economy is in ruins, they didnt give it up voluntarily. Newly released documents show that the Russians were not only aiding Saddam Hussein prior to the U.S. invasion in 2003, but they were also giving them U.S. war plans.

Moscow had informants inside U.S. Central Command whose information on the March 2003 invasion of Iraq was relayed to dictator Saddam Hussein days before American troops ousted him from power, according to a Defense Department history releasted yesterday.

And, as U.S. troops encircled Baghdad in April, Russia's ambassador fed information from Moscow's intelligence service to Saddam's regime regarding U.S. troop movements.

Unbelieveable. I have no idea how much Vlad Putin was involved in all of this, but if he was he has got to go. Bush better step up and not let this one go because we cant be friendly with countries that are willingly attempting to undermine our efforts to protect ourselves. That makes them as guilty as Saddam Hussein himself.
The documents found also have some details about Saddam's WMD program:

The regime planned to restart production of weapons of mass destruction. It continued to hide scientists from the U.N. inspectors right up to the time U.N. inspectors left and the war began.

A seized Dec. 15, 2002, memo, written by an Iraqi intelligence agent posing as a U.N. escort, states, "Inside Bader WMD inspection site, there are Russian and Turkish scientists. When we visited the site, there were forced to hide from inspectors eyes."

And, Saddam continued to tell his commanders he still has such weapons. "For him, there were real dividends to be gained by letting his enemies believe he possessed WMD, whether it was true or not," the report said.

In conclusion, Saddam wanted the weapons and said he had them. Also, the Russian's were helping the Iraqi's before the war to help defeat the US. But of course its all Bush's fault...right?

Source Washington Times

-Brad