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Babar
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« on: March 24, 2006, 03:49:56 PM »
Russia aided Iraq in opening days of invasion
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« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2006, 03:49:56 PM »
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Russia provided intelligence to Iraq's government in the opening days of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, including information that fed Iraqi suspicions that the main U.S. invasion force coming from Kuwait was actually a diversion, a Pentagon report released on Friday stated.
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« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2006, 05:18:21 PM »
Ok, time to add Russia to the list of countries to invade.
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« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2006, 05:22:16 PM »
Oh, hardly. Russia provided Iraq with false information, thus aiding the US attack.

The intelligence, the document stated, was that the American forces were moving to cut off Baghdad from the south, east and north, that U.S. bombing would concentrate on Baghdad and that the assault on Baghdad would not begin before around April 15.

In fact, Baghdad fell about a week before that date.


They made Iraq not expect the attack until it was too late.
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« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2006, 05:39:06 PM »
So Saddam got Punk'd?
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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2006, 07:05:56 PM »
The article is careful to say that Russia did not intentionally provide Saddam with false information. Russia merely provided information that was inaccurate. Big difference there.
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2006, 07:47:43 PM »
I honestly don't see the point.  Iraq didn't have any chance of stopping the US invasion even with good intel.
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2006, 08:17:06 PM »
France still provided the banks for laundering money from the oil for food scandal, threatened African countries who didn't vote no, and French made weapons were found with dates made after the sanctions were in place in Iraq.   They did plenty.

And Russia did their part as well.
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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2006, 08:29:01 PM »
The answer is clear, we must invade France!  They are our enemy after all, and a major object in the path of our global goals...
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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2006, 08:30:54 PM »
Originally posted by: Reflex

The answer is clear, we must invade France!  They are our enemy after all, and a major object in the path of our global goals...


We have many enemies, we don't invade them all.   That doesn't take away from their status as an enemy.   How hard is that to understand Reflex?
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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2006, 09:24:37 PM »
Originally posted by: Babar
The article is careful to say that Russia did not intentionally provide Saddam with false information. Russia merely provided information that was inaccurate. Big difference there.


Where does it say that?
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