Should Russian troops go to Iraq?

[to free the oppressed]

Just what to know what you guy's think, because I would like to see American and Russian relationship get stronger by Russia sending troops to Iraq.

[USMarine3521]

I want to know how they would be able to pay for that...I watched on discovery wings channel that hind d pilots are only allowed to fly once a month...either that or the program I watched is really old.


edit: and I voted no because I don't think the Iraqi's would like the presence of Russians.

[96B]

I do not think the Russians support sending in help or at least their population doesnt, but I think it would be greatly appreciated if they would at least send some kind of support.

[front]

The poll was "Should Russian troops go to Iraq?"

The answer is "NO".

cheers

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[96B]

Do you mind explaining why you believe they should not go? I am curious.

[mocking_loudly]

Russia invented the word craptastic.

East meets west, It's not going to go down to well.

Can you imagine the outrage and press clippings from any friendly fire incidents.....oh yeh!.

[front]

"o you mind explaining why you believe they should not go? I am curious."

I am not going to even begin to start...

semperfi2003... ENOUGH is enougn.

Go to a Library and figure it out. Take the time to get up off your ass and go to a place in your town where the "books" are.

Then READ!

You have enough of your questions asked and answered over the last year. Figure it out...

www.google.com is a hint.

cheers

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[Seiyuuki]

Wow! And here I thought people with question in this forum can without ridicule get a decent answer.

[to free the oppressed]

dude if Semperfi2003 would like Russia to send troops to Iraq thats cool, but Front you are just acting like smarta**. P.S. the next person that votes "No" I'll bi**h slap you. :lol:

[front]

Wake up!

"The Russians!"

His question was "Do you mind explaining why you believe they should not go?"

"Should not go?"!!!

It is obvious.

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[GazB]

I don't think the Iraqis want any foreign power there... US, UK, or UN.

I voted No.

The best thing the US could do is gather up 50,000 Iraqi men that have 10 or so people vouch for them, that they are not nuts or Pro Saddam, train them up and give them uniforms and rifles and let them solve their own security problem.

[front]

"Wow! And here I thought people with question in this forum can without ridicule get a decent answer."

Seiyuuki?

"If they ask a decent question."


It is obvious that the "Russians" are going to sit on the sidelines and laugh.

So ehhhh... FeCK off... with your pedantic defensive*ideas for the ROOOSeians."

The blank check is in dollars. Not Russian money.

No Russians need apply my friends... :-)

cheese

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[Saranof]

"Wow! And here I thought people with question in this forum can without ridicule get a decent answer."

Seiyuuki?

"If they ask a decent question."


It is obvious that the "Russians" are going to sit on the sidelines and laugh.

So ehhhh... FeCK off... with your pedantic defensive*ideas for the ROOOSeians."

The blank check is in dollars. Not Russian money.

No Russians need apply my friends... :-)

cheese

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And the award for "Ignorant F**khead of the year" goes toooo...you!


If anyone, the US shoots more of thier own then the russikes.

They need more iraqi policemen, not more forigein troops

[Dmitri]

Wow! And here I thought people with question in this forum can without ridicule get a decent answer."

Seiyuuki?

"If they ask a decent question."


It is obvious that the "Russians" are going to sit on the sidelines and laugh.

So ehhhh... FeCK off... with your pedantic defensive ideas for the ROOOSeians."

The blank check is in dollars. Not Russian money.

No Russians need apply my friends...

cheese

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Well, either you are some prior service that still has **** in his breaches from the Cold war or some young nerd that read too MANY books and now can't get over it...
and the question was should russia sent troops, not money... As you know, us really wants to get as many troops out of there as they can, I think that would be a good help.

[Jack Mehoff]

Remember what happened in Germany after WW2 when east meet west?





They need more iraqi policemen, not more forigein troops

Precisely

[Haiw]

front, the cold war is over... :roll:

[Jack Mehoff]

front, the cold war is over... :roll:


You never know what mother Russia has on her mind.

[ibstolidude]

Russia invented the word craptastic.

East meets west, It's not going to go down to well.

Can you imagine the outrage and press clippings from any friendly fire incidents.....oh yeh!.

It would not be the first time Russian (or Former USSR countries) worked with the US while fwd deployed (ie besides "soldiers exchange")...I am aware of no major incidents yet.

[Haiw]

You never know what mother Russia has on her mind.

Mother Russia yea...Papa Soviet is death ;)

[Seiyuuki]

The best thing the US could do is gather up 50,000 Iraqi men that have 10 or so people vouch for them, that they are not nuts or Pro Saddam, train them up and give them uniforms and rifles and let them solve their own security problem.

I think the US have already started to do that:

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=424159

An Iraqi civil defense specialist examins a land-mine after it was made safe, in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)


http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=424175

An Iraqi policeman guards the al-Yarmouk hospital where Aquila al-Hashimi, one of three women on Iraq's Governing Council, was treated after she was shot and critically wounded Saturday, Sept 20, 2003, in an assassination attempt outside her home in west Baghdad, police and doctors said. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=424178


http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=424186

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=422642


New Iraqi army soldiers line up to shoot during a training course near Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)


http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=422621

A U.S. Army 101st Airborne division officer directs an Iraqi soldier how to shoot a target during a training course near Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)


http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=422622

U.S. Army 101st Airborne division soldiers and an Iraqi soldier, center, check a target after shooting during a training course near Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=422838

4th group of Iraqi new military officers and soldiers with flag of ICDC (Iraqi Civilian defense corps) stand at performance of graduation ceremony at a U.S. Army of 101st Airborne division base in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=422815

New Iraqi military officers and soldiers wait for graduation during a ceremony at the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division base in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=422837

U.S. Army of 101st Airborne division's comander Major General David H. Petraeus, left, shakes hands with new graduated Sgt Sabah Abdul Salam after graduation ceremony at a U.S. Army of 101st Airborne division base in Mosul, 400 kms (250 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

[volfram]

I don't care if Rusians send troops to Iraq or not,i just can't stand when Putin say how valuable peace is for him but in the same time he is responsible for one of the bloodiest war now.

[ArmoredDov_D9]

Answer to the poll question:

Yes

America will be the good cop and the Russians will be the bad cop.
No offend against Russia but the Russian troops can do all the things that the US troops cannot do because of international pressure, alledglt regarding to Human Rights issues.

[96B]

"o you mind explaining why you believe they should not go? I am curious."

I am not going to even begin to start...

semperfi2003... ENOUGH is enougn.

Go to a Library and figure it out. Take the time to get up off your ass and go to a place in your town where the "books" are.

Then READ!

You have enough of your questions asked and answered over the last year. Figure it out...

www.google.com is a hint.

cheers

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Yeah, and you're ugly.

[Rantanplan]

Russians as occupying forces?!?!!??!

Checenia, Afghanistan, Czechoslovakia, Poland ...........

Nope!

[Dmitri]

I don't care if Rusians send troops to Iraq or not,i just can't stand when Putin say how valuable peace is for him but in the same time he is responsible for one of the bloodiest war now.
First of all, he is not the one that started it. Second of all, did you know that most guerillas that ATTACK THE CHECHEN gov't are mercenaries from another countries?? And right now the Iraqi war is more bloodier anyway.

[Tom.G]

I don't think the Russians will send any men to Iraq. Last I heard they had their hands full in Chechnya(spelling?). The Russkies are having enough trouble controling that tiny piece of ground. What makes you think they would divert recouces to a war in which they aren't even involved?

[martinexsquaddie]

hey they would make american troops look professional by comparision :lol:

[army cadet_ngcsu]

Well, I believe that we do need some international support regarding Iraq and if that means bringing in the Russians, then so be it. The Russians could prove to be helpful and this will further isolate France and some of the other anti Americans in the EU. I am sure that Russia is looking for some sort of way to mend relations with the US and this is the perfect opportunity, I hope they take us up on it. More than Russians, I think we need more Islamic countries contributing to the peacekeeping corps.

[jlanni]

what were giveing the iraqis US uniforms now? is there any reason why were doing that? prob a stupid question but the uniforms that the US has is pretty much a unique identifyer between other nations

[front]

Ouch... the personals are flowing from the people. :-)

seyuki and semperfi? Let me educate you...

Russian soldiers should not be sent into any country to help achieve "stability" when they cannot, by their presence, achieve any type of "stability" in the former Soviet Republics where they were once, and are now in battle against the followers of Islam.

Is that clear enough to you children?

Muslims DO NOT WANT Russian soldiers in Iraq or Afghanistan while Russian soldiers fight the "Faithful" in Chechnya.

So wake up.

NO Russian soldiers in Iraq thanks.

cheers

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[walford]

I thought the Russkies were already there...

Revealed: Russia spied on Blair for Saddam
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/13/wrus13.xml

Russian Military Rushes to Help Saddam
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/3/150527.shtml

Pro-Saddam Russian espionage
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2003/apr/15/opinion/20030415opi2.html

Russians Want to Build Bridge Named After Saddam Hussein
http://english.pravda.ru/society/2003/03/14/44399.html

Ex-spy fingers Russians on Iraqi WMDs
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/00[/b]0774.html


Next topic: should French troops go to Iraq

[StarvingStudent47]

Russia is just about economically bankrupt, and right now their military is suffering because of severe lack of funding (both in terms of equipment and training). Even if we were long-time allies, which we aren't, I don't think it's either prudent or just to ask a country in that situation to send troops to foreign lands. It's just asking for trouble.

I'd be more than happy to get more support from Western European countries, though--or maybe even from places like India and Japan. It's just that Russia isn't the place I'd start.

[GazB]

"Russia is just about economically bankrupt, and right now their military is suffering because of severe lack of funding (both in terms of equipment and training)."

Umm, that is rubbish.

Defence expenditure has increased the last 3-4 years in a row, and while it doesn't approach what the Americans are spending they aren't anywhere near as bad off as they were 10 years ago.

What happened to bush and blairs claims that if the international community won't join then they can't partake in the rebuild and that the US, UK, Australia and a few other countries could and would do it by themselves?

[to free the oppressed]

should French troops go to Iraq.
The answer is "HELL NO".