Russian Bear,

It is very bad form to answer questions with falsehoods. The USA never sold chemical weapons or precursers to Saddam. If you can actually prove that allegation, you will make international news. You know very well that Saddam was a client of the Soviet Union and received most of his weapons and technical support from the Soviets. Do you imagine for a moment that the USA would give a Soviet aligned dictator potential evidence that it was violating chemical warfare treaties? Do you imagine for a moment that the Soviet Union would have hesitated to shout to the world that the Americans were violating treaties?

You mention 4 candidates for president. Four Potyomkin candidates. Can you imagine the uproar in the US if Ralph Nader were arrested for any reason? We would have a revolution if Barack Obama were to be harassed by the Bush administration in any way whatsoever. Volodya Putin used the instruments of state power to manipulate the election process and place an unknown man as president of Russia. Now we see that the bear cub is a Potyomkin president, Volodya holds the power. (You are right Medvedev is not a “silovik,” he lacks the eggs, he is a minor apparatchik, an oil lawyer, a new Russian with a pinkie ring.)

Of course Russia supported Saddam. Rossneft held a contract to develop Iraq’s Rumaila field – potentially 15 billion barrels.

You mumbled something about American advisors to Yeltsin being responsible for Russia never developing a proper economy like a proper, normal country. Consider Japan. Fifteen years after their country was destroyed, after they suffered nuclear weapons attack they were already exporting cars, cameras and electronics to the rest of the world.
Consider China. They abandoned Stalinist central planning and developed export manufacturing.
In both cases, at first their products were terrible, but they were patient and diligent and now Japan has the best reputation for quality in the world and the Chinese are getting better every year.

So, why does the homeland of bardak have nothing decent to sell to the world? Russia is a banana republic. It sells oil like any colony. The only superior product of Russia is the Kalashnikov. Everything else produced in Russia is garbage.
It is so much easier to blame the foreigners than to get off of your lazy asses and get to work. Just as in 1905, the Japanese shame the Russians. Just as in 1905, the Russians comfort themselves with false pride.

It will be good old fashioned Russian bardak that give the Georgians a victory.