Pootie-Poot Votes For Bush - Will Vladimir Putin Pick Our Next President?

Vladimir Putin is attempting to influence our next election. The Russian President is playing geopolitical pro-ball while America is stuck in the Bush League.

Washington, DC July 1, 2004-- 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.

Naturally, President Bush believes Putin, his good buddy, would not try to hurt him. After all, as Bush proclaimed after his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, "I looked into his heart. He is a good man." No matter that Putin is an old KGB man who is currently crushing freedom in Russia.

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.

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.

Like magic this new information seemed to stop Bush's falling poll numbers. The national press shrugged, said "Wow, I guess it's good we went to war when we did," and switched back to coverage of the Michael Jackson trial. Across the country millions of Republicans called their Democrat friends and said with glee, "Did you see the news? Saddam was planning to attack us!"

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.

Fortunately, while our national press was asleep, a well respected private intelligence company called Strategic Forecasting Inc, was not. Strategic Forecasting Inc ( http://www.StratFor.com ) operates like a private quasi-CIA, providing intelligence services for the private sector. Like the CIA, StratFor maintains high level contacts and informants at the highest levels of many foreign governments.

Washington, DC Here are a few extracts from their recent report titled, "Intelligence, Iraq, and Putin's Double Game".

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.

Under U.S. President Bill Clinton, Washington pushed heavily for the Kremlin to empower the oligarchs and allow them to control the press; such a stance would likely resurface under a Kerry presidency. These attitudes arguably made the oligarchs more powerful than Russia's federal government -- a state of affairs Putin spent the bulk of his first term correcting. Though he smashed the oligarchs as a class and put most of the media under state control, the Bush administration barely batted an eye. - Intelligence, Iraq and Putin's Double Game, June 18, 2004.

To read the full, shocking, Strategic Forecasting Inc., report, visit: http://www.StratFor.com

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. Putin is willing to forgive only a fraction of this debt and then only on condition that Iraq honor the billion dollar oil contracts it signed with Saddam before the war. How will Bush apply pressure on Putin in these negotiations? How hard will Bush be able to push Putin to forgive Iraqi debt? How many billions of dollars will Americans have to pay for his silence? How will millions of Russians suffer if Bush gives Putin the freedom to turn Russia back into a totalitarian State? Will we ever get the truth? Will a guy named Pootie-Poot determine who we elect as our next President?

That not a single American News organization picked up on the information in the StratFor Report or bothered to look in to why the U.S. State Department couldn't verify Putin's statement is shocking. Especially since looking back at news reports that day the State Department seems to be practically begging Bush to join them in discounting Putin's statements at the time. One unnamed source is quoted as saying everyone in the State Department was "left scratching their heads" by Putin's strange comments.

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 its time that the national press take a hard second look and see if Putin's lifeline to Bush was really a noose.

I'm just an American who decided to look into this subject after seeing the look on Bush's face when a reporter asked him about Putin's comments the first time. Bush looked like he just did a Pootie-Poot in his pants. I thought I'd look around for some answers I wasn't finding in the local papers. If you agree that these are questions that need to be asked (and answered), please forward this article to your favorite news source or congressman. With your help maybe we can help save the world.

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