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Vladimir Putin's online interview - PRAVDA.Ru: "Iraq is a special case"


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Q: Americans finally captured Hussein. But I think it would not better situation in Iraq, and another Vietnam can become of it. Will there be chaos, how do you think?

A: We-re not interested in the USA losing their fight against international terrorism, we are their partners in it. But Iraq is a special case, there were no international terrorists there under Hussein. Use of force out of one-s borders can be allowed only by UN Security Council sanctions, this is international law. Hence everything done without such sanctions can not be approved as legitimate, neither be justified. And it is speaking softly. But in the history of humankind great countries, empires, have always suffered a number of problems: feelings of invulnerability, of greatness, of infallibility. This has always worked against them. I hope it wouldn-t happen to our American parners.

Q: What do you think about extending the presidential term and possibility for three and more terms?

A: I am opposed to this.



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Putin is not a lover of Arabs, No, But he is a Man, a real Man that acts from his free will and is not a puppet. This president of Russia is not a puppet of the USA.