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2014-06-22 Iraq

Iraqi Source Claims Putin Offered Iraq's Al-Maliki Military Aid

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iraq

#1 Interesting, if true.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-22 06:30|| 2014-06-22 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm sure it's true someone said so, g(r)omgoru.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-06-22 07:18|| 2014-06-22 07:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Russia has had continues to have its own Sunni problem in the Caucasus and Dagestan. Thus, the support for Shiite Iran and Al-Maliki.

Posted by Muggsy White8658 2014-06-22 08:46|| 2014-06-22 08:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Also helps stick it in the eye of Obummer. As Victor Davis Hanson says "annoying Obama is why Putin gets up in the morning."

Posted by frozen al 2014-06-22 11:38|| 2014-06-22 11:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Russia would love to have Iraq as a client state. Putin would view it as a takeaway from Obama further humiliating him.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-22 11:50|| 2014-06-22 11:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh yeah, and Russian troops on the boarder of Saudi Arabia.

Posted by Squinty 2014-06-22 11:55|| 2014-06-22 11:55|| Front Page Top

#7 The only thing that would upset O is if Putin purchased the Washington Redskins and kept the name the same.

Posted by Dale 2014-06-22 13:56|| 2014-06-22 13:56|| Front Page Top

#8 It would be changed Dale, slightly, the Washington Reds.

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-22 18:00|| 2014-06-22 18:00|| Front Page Top

#9 Iff true, AFAIC it'll the Bammer once again being a good OWG Globalist + SSSSSHHHHHH .... PCCCCCCCC helping not One but Two OWG Co-Superpowers expand their MilPol or Geopol spheres.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-06-22 22:45|| 2014-06-22 22:45|| Front Page Top

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