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Released July 1st

President Bush reportedly calls Vladimir Putin, the steely-faced son of the KGB and now President of Russia, a nickname. Bush calls him Pootie-Poot. This fact alone provides a pretty good indication about the level of our president’s understanding of the cut throat world of geopolitics.
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Unfortunately most of us don't posses this power to look into peoples hearts like Bush, Santa Claus and Jesus do. Instead, we have to look at the words and deeds of people. It would be nice if professional reporters and our national press did this more often because on June 18, 2004 they missed the President of Russia trying to take control of our next presidential election.

Pootie poot? If you didn't know what "WTF" stood for, consult your first obscene reaction to this news. Now thats not the real news in the story, THIS is the real news:

On June 18, 2004 while the September 11th Commission was releasing it’s findings and the press was finally asking President Bush the hard questions they should have been asking before the war, Vladimir Putin, Good ole Pootie-Poot, threw his little buddy Bush a lifeline. Pootie reveled that he had provided Bush with evidence that Saddam and Iraq were in fact planning terrorist attacks on the United States.

Isn't this next fact a little odd... coming, as it does, considering that it regards a former KGB Agent:

What people failed to notice was that no one in our government or Russia’s seems to know what Putin is talking about. Nor has the press bothered to ask.

Here is where it gets interesting, Bush may have just gotten himself impeached... for real.

Fortunately, while our national press was asleep, a well respected private intelligence company called Strategic Forecasting Inc, was not.
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Like the CIA, StratFor maintains high level contacts and informants at the highest levels of many foreign governments.
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Stratfor sources within the Russian Security Council, the Russian intelligence services and the Kremlin disputed Putin's claims. They assert that no such intelligence was passed on -- or ever existed. Putin appears to be playing a double game, exploiting the flux in the U.S. political scene to meet Russia's needs. Stratfor sources within the Putin administration tell them Putin strongly favors a Bush win in the U.S. presidential elections.
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Consider this:

If Bush has in fact knowingly accepted and perpetrated Putin’s lie on the American public in order to preserve his electability come November, then Bush has just put himself in an impeachable position. At a time when he is in negotiations with Putin in an attempt to get Russia to forgive billions in Iraqi debt, Bush is now at the mercy of his buddy Pootie-Poot. Putin can crush Bush by releasing his actual Iraq intelligence files in a way that will embarrass Bush. Perhaps leaking faulty intelligence that traces back to Bush’s former buddy, Ahmed Chalabi (ChallaBeanie?). Or he can help push Bush higher in the polls by leaking more tales of Saddam’s evil terror plans for America. Putin holds all the cards and pulls all the strings to Bush's future.

The question for the American public is what will Bush have do for Putin to keep him from spilling the beans, and what will it cost the US taxpayers and the rest of the world? Iraq currently owes Russia about 12 Billion dollars that everyone would like Putin to forgive so that Iraq can pay for re-building its own roads and schools. If this doesn’t happen, this tab (schools, roads and perhaps even the Russian debt) will most likely be picked up by U.S. tax payers.

Now we should draw conclusions too quickly, but we should head this reminder:
President Bush on the other hand chose to grab Putin’s life rope and go with the story. So while the State Department was denying any knowledge of the reports, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice were busy reiterating their early comments about Saddam's links to terror and implying that the Putin story was true, but that they could not comment on “confidential intelligence reports” (nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.). As a result, the right wing press, blogs and message boards are still buzzing with glee. They are even accusing the “Liberal Press” of downplaying Putin’s comments as part of a left wing conspiracy. I think it’s time that the national press take a hard second look and see if Putin’s lifeline to Bush was really a noose.

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Update:http:The Associated Press

ASTANA, Kazakhstan June 18, 2004 — Russia gave the Bush administration intelligence after the September 11 attacks that suggested Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq was preparing attacks in the United States, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
Putin said he couldn't comment on how critical the Russians' information was in the U.S. decision to invade Iraq. He said Russia didn't have any information that Saddam's regime had actually been behind any terrorist acts.
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Russia "warning" on Saddam puzzles U.S
Fri 18 June, 2004 20:44

By Raushan Nurshayeva

State Department spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters he did not know anything about the information that Putin said Russia passed on. No such information was communicated from Russia through the State Department, he said.

"Everybody's scratching their heads," said one State Department official, who asked not to be named.

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The Full report is somewhere in Strategic Forecasting's Geopolitical Diary. I'll throw the exact link when I find it.