Russians Are Sweating Bullets

[Richard G]

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/04/10/009.html

Good, screw em.

[Tony]

I got this

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[Reginald]

So did I. Have the Russians hacked your MSN mail Ac??
;)

[Supercharts]

Me three. What's with the link?

[Richard G]

Doh! Fixed.

[Denise]

I concur.

[Mel]

LOL!!! Seems they just were a teeny bit off the mark.

No problem..... let the French console them. :D

[Baker]

I got it to load look at how far off they where in covery the war.

As the allies' push into Iraq seemed to falter, many hearts in Moscow and in Europe rejoiced. In a poll taken in late March, 52 percent of Russians were of the opinion that the U.S.-led military action in Iraq was unsuccessful; 58 percent believed it would be a long war; 35 percent were convinced the United States would win in the end, while 33 percent assumed Iraq would prevail.

[Questioninggeller]

Originally posted by Mel
LOL!!! Seems they just were a teeny bit off the mark.

No problem..... let the French console them. :D

LOL

[armageddonman]

Ha anyone found any confirmation for this yet?

[iain]

I find it difficult to believe that anyone could seriously have thought the coalition would fail to beat Saddam, barring some "act of God" type events.

Did it not occur to these people that Iraq is a developing country with very old weapons and a poorly trained army, facing the world's most powerful military force?

Did it not occur to them that, having decided to go into Iraq to protect American lives against terrorist threats it is inconceivable that the coalition would have backed down before achieving victory : the political consequences would have been devastating.

Did people not think that, when given the choice between fighting to a probable death to prop up a doomed dictator and running away, the vast majority of Iraqi troops were more likely to choose the second option?

The only question was (and still is) how long the war would last and, as usual, the answer is longer than the optimists hoped but shorter than the pessimists feared.

[Lisa]

Ah, but iaian, the Russians had to talk bravado to Iraqi IMO. Wouldn't look too good to sell them a bunch of stuff, and then say "BTW, if you get into it with anyone more powerful than Gambia, you're screwed".

[armageddonman]

I still haven't found any confirmation for this.

[richardm]

Originally posted by armageddonman
I still haven't found any confirmation for this.

Which bit? All of it?

Here's some of it (http://www.aei.org/research/nai/news/newsID.16875,projectID.11/news_detail.asp) independently confirmed.

[Baker]

Originally posted by iain
I find it difficult to believe that anyone could seriously have thought the coalition would fail to beat Saddam, barring some "act of God" type events.

Did it not occur to these people that Iraq is a developing country with very old weapons and a poorly trained army, facing the world's most powerful military force?


I agree but most the worlds media was against the US and reported only the negative aspect of it.
Look at this link from another thread.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-04-10-arab-reaction_x.htm
Arab world stunned by Baghdad's fall
CAIRO (AP) — Arabs responded Thursday to the sudden collapse of Saddam Hussein's government with anger, shock and even disbelief. One newspaper refused to acknowledge that Baghdad had fallen.

Across the Middle East, people struggled to reconcile images of celebrating Iraqis with widely held suspicions about the United States' motives.

''We discovered that all that the (Iraqi) information minister was saying was all lies,'' said Ali Hassan, a government employee in Cairo, Egypt.

"Now no one believes al-Jazeera anymore," he said, referring to the Arabic-language television news channel.