IRAQ DOCS PROVE PUTIN ISN'T TRUSTWORTHY

POOTY-TOOT: PART OF THE PROBLEM, NOT PART OF THE SOLUTION.

A MUST READ FROM CAPT'S QUARTERS.

Complete roundup of news reports and blog comments HERE.

MUCH MORE HERE AT GATEWAY PUNDIT: evidence of high level miltiary meetings between Saddam and Russian envoys days before the war, AND... contemporaneous reports of the strange movements of Russian ambassador Titorenko - to Syria and back to Baghdad - in the first stages of the war.

(IT ALL SMACKS OF COLLUSION AND MAKES ME SURER THAN EVER THAT RUSSIA PROBABLY HELPED SADDAM HIDE THE WMD STOCKPILES IN SYRIA.)

UPDATE: OVER ONE YEAR AGO I POSTED THAT PUTIN WAS PART OF THE AXIS OF EVIL, PART OF THE PROBLEM AND NOT THE SOLUTION:

PUTIN-IRAN AXIS - (Friday, February 18, 2005)

MSNBC/AP:

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he is convinced Iran does not intend to develop nuclear weapons and said he plans to visit Iran. Putin, at a meeting with Iranian National Security Council chief Hasan Rohani, also said Russia would continue its nuclear cooperation with Iran. Moscow has helped Iran build a nuclear reactor, a project that has been heavily criticized by the United States which fears it could be used to help Tehran develop nuclear weapons.

I have looked into Putin's eyes and seen the soul of an autocrat and an adversary who has joined the Axis of Evil. Putin is helping Iran, Styria, and North Korea. That makes him part of the problem, not part of the solution.

It is HIGH TIME we fomented an ORANGE REVOLUTION in Russia! More HERE.

UPDATE: NRO has a MUST READ on Russia by Ilan Berman. EXCERPT:

Moscow's renewed maneuvers in the Middle East have everything to do with ideology. Over the past year, Putin's increasingly authoritarian governing style has succeeded in eliminating any semblance of serious domestic opposition to the Kremlin, giving the Russian president virtual carte blanche to formulate foreign and defense policy. Worse still, this growing political mandate has been mirrored by the revival of unhealthy notions of Russian greatness and geopolitical opposition to the United States. Whether these ideas actually benefit Russian national interests in the long term remains to be seen. But for the United States, the Kremlin's counterproductive policies in the Middle East — and the corrosive ideology underpinning them — are becoming harder and harder to ignore.

THE RECENT FACTS WHICH HAVE COME TO LIGHT ONLY REINFORCE MY OPINION - JUSTIFIABLY SO.

IF RUSSIA BLOCKS ANY MOVE AT THE UNSC AGAINST ASSAD OR IRAN, THEN IT PROVES THAT THE RUSSIA IS AN ENEMY AND THE U.N. IS USELESS; AND THEN, WE SHOULD WITHDRAW FROM THE UN AND KICK THEM OUT OF THE USA.