#1 2 former Soviet generals advised Iraqi military
Two former Soviet Army generals have been so deeply involved in helping to prepare the Iraqi military for a rematch with the Americans that on the eve of this war, Saddam Hussein ordered them decorated with high honors in Baghdad.
Both generals were communist hard-liners who were part of the abortive coup attempt against the last Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev.
"The ties between the Soviets and the Iraqis were very close at almost every level, in the military, in the intelligence services and in the foreign ministry," said one administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "A lot of them took the (1991) gulf war personally, and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them looked for ways to get even. But that probably doesn't include Putin, who I think looks ahead, not backward."
Glad to see those old butchers could find work with a like mind.
# 2 Gorbachev calls for end to "bloodbath" in Iraq
"Those that think they are leading themselves towards victory and will achieve their goals are wrong," Gorbachev said, following talks with Lebanon's President Emile Lahoud, in an allusion to the US-led coalition invading Iraq.
"I agree with President Lahoud on the need to work to restore the authority of the United Nations and oppose violations of international law," said Gorbachev, on his first visit to Lebanon.
We don't need Gorby's pontifications on international law, whatever that is. He presided over a totalitarian regime and left office because the country would rather have had a drunken Boris Yeltsin. We in the west made him a celebrity, but he was a failure to his own people. The Russians preferred Ronald Reagan.
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