Putin reveals intelligence confirming Saddam planned attack on America

[Sirotnikov]

Or, if you like, you could substitute 'killing' for 'terror'.

Of course, I hope you can reconize the scale of difference between a mugging and the other two.

I hope you can understand the scale of moral difference between war against a government, and terrorist attacks aimed against civilians.

But sadly I suspect you can't.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov

Or, if you like, you could substitute 'killing' for 'terror'.

Of course, I hope you can reconize the scale of difference between a mugging and the other two.

I hope you can understand the scale of moral difference between war against a government, and terrorist attacks aimed against civilians.

But sadly I suspect you can't.

Of course, I hope you realize that there is no such thing as a war "against the government". Wars are all-inclusive.

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by The Vagabond
Putin must really be frightened that Kerry might win in November.

We all are frigthened that Kerry might win.

[General Ludd]

Putin wants to cripple america by helping bush stay in power.

[OliverFA]

Originally posted by Spiffor

This was not the tune I heard when France "backstabbed" the US by precisely refusing to join its war in Iraq.

The difference is that Russia showed their disagreement but didn´t oppose directly and by all means to US, like Germany and France did.

From my point of view Putin played smart. Despite lots of things have changed in Russia, they cannot still just go together with the US. They have to play some kind of oppostion just to keep appearences.

[Dis]

the war was about oil.

get over it.

not that it's a bad thing. oil is good...

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov

Or, if you like, you could substitute 'killing' for 'terror'.

Of course, I hope you can reconize the scale of difference between a mugging and the other two.

I hope you can understand the scale of moral difference between war against a government, and terrorist attacks aimed against civilians.

But sadly I suspect you can't.

Indeed.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by General Ludd
Of course, I hope you realize that there is no such thing as a war "against the government". Wars are all-inclusive.

No they aren't.

[chequita guevara]

The United States was also planning to invade Canada. The fact that plans have been made does not mean they they were to go into effect.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by The diplomat
We all are frigthened that Kerry might win.

We are?

[Kuciwalker]

That point has been made multiple times in this thread.

[chequita guevara]

Yeah, well, I didn't feel like reading it.

[DinoDoc]

Boshko seems to be the only one with a relevent point against the article.

[johncmcleod]

I'm going to point out the obvious. Russia says they told us about these terrorist plans, the US says they didn't. Obviously someone is lying. Now I don't see why the US would deny knowledge of these plans. If Russia did find these plans and send them to the US, Bush would be delighted to get more evidence for his war on Iraq and would use it as 'smoking gun evidence.' But this didn't happen, so it seems to me that the Russians are doing this to get US support.

Besides that, these plans are ridiculous. As it has been stated, just because they have a plan doesn't mean they will attack. But most of all, why would Iraq attack us? Why would a struggling third world country in the middle of the desert make a terrorist attack on the US? The Americans would cry, "Because they hate us!" But I really don't think Saddam hates us. After all, we supported the Baathist coup that put him in power, gave Saddam plenty of support and weapons and allowed US corporations to sell him chemicals for WMD. And the terrorists that attack the US do so because of religious reason. They are usually radical Shiites. Saddam is not like this. He is a secular sunni and probably has very little devotion to his religion anyway. Saddam is the opposite of Osama bin Laden, and Saddam is an enemy to any radicalist terrorist such as ObL.

And even if, for no apparent reason, Saddam made an unprovoked attack on the US, it would just give Bush the perfect excuse to invade Iraq. Saddam would get flattened, and America would have the world's support. Saddam is a bad guy but he is rational and he isn't suicidal.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by The diplomat
Al Queda had plans to attack. so what?

The Canadian military has plans for attacking the US. So what?