As a member of the United Nations Security Council, France, Russia and China all worked against the United States on Iraq. The reasons were many, not the least of which was the fact that all three countries had oil and other financial interests in Iraq.
The connection with Russia is becoming somewhat more disturbing as time goes on. Earlier this week it was stories of Russians helping remove explosives to Syria in the days before the U.S.-led invasion.
Now this:
2 Russian generals get Iraqi awards on war eve
Two Russian generals were photographed receiving awards from Saddam Hussein’s government for helping Iraqi military forces less than 10 days before the U.S.-led invasion.
The two retired officers were identified by the newspaper Gazeta.ru as Col. Gen. Vladimir Achalov and Col. Gen. Igor Maltsev, both former high-ranking officers involved in Soviet rapid-reaction and air defense forces.
Both generals were photographed receiving awards from Iraqi Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmed in early March 2003, only days before the war began on March 20, 2003. The photographs were taken in a building that was bombed by U.S. cruise missiles during the first air raids on Baghdad, the newspaper stated.
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