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Putin endorses Bush (over Cocao)

I'm votink for W darlink.

Vlad is attending a summit of the Central Asian Cooperation Organization (CACO) in Dushanbe, along with such heros as Presidents Nursultan Nazarbaev of Kazakhstan, Askar Akaev of Kyrgyzstan, Imomali Rahmonov of Tajikistan, and Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan. From the august gathering of the CACO heads-of-state (which voted last May to allow the CIS to join as a full member, cutting the Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova Alliance (GUAM) off at the who-gets-Russia-first game of Post-Soviet Unions), Vlad had the following bits of wisdom to share with the voyld.

International terrorism pursues a goal of causing the maximum possible damage to US President George Bush and preventing him from being reelected for a second term.

If international terrorists achieve this goal, they will celebrate a victory over America and the whole anti-terrorist coalition, which could lead to an increase in international terrorism.

On the plus side Putin also said the Russian government would respect the choice of the American people, so voting for Kerry won't actually be voting for a remake of "The Russians are coming" or "Red Dawn".

Terrorism, organized crime and religious extremism head the CACO agenda. See my piece on the plutonium economy for subtext.

Posted by EBW at October 18, 2004 09:24 AM | TrackBack