I haven't quite caught on to the dynamics of this board. I expected some entertaining rants about the Clinton-Rather interview. I thought that the Putin statement that he provided intelligence to Bush showing that Iraq was planning terrorist attacks against the U.S. would seal the case for the pro-war contingnent (which includes me, the only tofu eating atheist, lycra-wearing cyclist, environmentalist, anti-materialistic, Iraq war supporter.) Where's the outrage? Come on you prolific posters, entertain me. I'm trying to keep a balance between the excess value of my labor that my employer steals from me and the work time that I steal back from him. If there's no posts here, I'll have to work and have my pocket picked by this evil corporation.

Clinton Rather. Okay I think your seeing a collective--So who cares? This 950 page opus that the New York Times is calling eye-crossingly dull is going to make a decent primary source document in a few decades when everything else opens up. As for Rather what was he going to ask that Ken Starr hasn't told us about in every sordid detail.

Putin = Dictator. I would love to see his sources since no one had even mentioned this outside the realm of WMD's. In that instance most intelligence agree they had been duped, but unless Putin gives some credible evidence he comes off as being two faced. If he knew Iraq was to attack his soulmate why did he make sure that it was known that Russia was going to vote against the U.N resolution?

I haven't quite caught on to the dynamics of this board. I expected some entertaining rants about the Clinton-Rather interview. I thought that the Putin statement that he provided intelligence to Bush showing that Iraq was planning terrorist attacks against the U.S. would seal the case for the pro-war contingnent (which includes me, the only tofu eating atheist, lycra-wearing cyclist, environmentalist, anti-materialistic, Iraq war supporter.) Where's the outrage? Come on you prolific posters, entertain me. I'm trying to keep a balance between the excess value of my labor that my employer steals from me and the work time that I steal back from him. If there's no posts here, I'll have to work and have my pocket picked by this evil corporation.
In fact, it was almost embarrassing.

At this late date, with his pal Bush in trouble, the comrade is suddenly moved to share this urgent information with the world? How does he then explain his refusal to endorse the Iraq war at the time? How do we explain the administration's omission of this information in its rationale for the war, when it was throwing everything it had, real and made up, into the breach?

It was just impossible to take seriously. But what else to expect from a closet fascist counterrevolutionary like Putin?

(Good to see you have taken my recent economics lesson to heart, Comrade Continental!)

He had much to lose if war was brought to Iraq, i.e., billions of rubles that were owed him by Saddam. If he opposes war publicly, perhaps the US does not attack, yet in private he can help prevent an attack on the US, he maintains the alliance with Bush. Seems to me his tactics were spot on, but, hey, it just wasn't his day to win.