Subject: Primakov chats with Heiney and George
Date: Jan 20, 2008 3:17 PM
This will also not get into the MSM. Primakov believes the 911 stunt
was a stunt
and he has so stated publicly.
http://www.actionlyme.org/070426hometemp.htm
All of this confirms what I have previously demonstrated. Russia
won't tolerate
any more US shenanigans. They're furious.
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http://video1.washingtontimes.com/fishwrap/2008/01/bush_meeting_with_kissinger_pr.html
Bush meeting with Kissinger, Primakov
President Bush went into a meeting this morning with former U.S. and
Soviet officials
this morning, including former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and
former Soviet
Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov.
The White House announced the meeting this morning, and originally
said it would
take place this afternoon.
White House spokesman Tony Fratto said that the stated reason for the
meeting was
that it is "an opportunity for the president to hear the views of
these respected
statesmen on a number of issues important to the United States and
Russia."
But Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Primakov head up a working group on U.S.-
Russian relations
made up of former officials in both governments. The group was formed
in April after
both leaders met in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who
supported
the idea.
Sarah Mendelson, a Russia expert at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies,
said the group is a way for Mr. Putin to maintain contact with the
Bush administration
while continuing to close off contact with the U.S. inside his
country.
"Putin wants a funnel system where he has contact with a very few
senior folks
repeatedly and that's where heâEURO(tm)s getting his idea of what policy is
going
to be, and then he wants to cut off contact for everybody else," Ms.
Mendelson
said.
It's interesting to point out that with this group, Mr. Putin is
operating independently
of the Bush White House. He can initiate contact, through this group,
with any of
the presidential candidates and pick right up with the next president
where he left
off with Mr. Bush.
The reason the Kremlin is cutting off contact with outsiders for
normal Russian
citizens, Ms. Mendelson said, is because Mr. Putin is "actively
fostering anti-American
sentiment and anti-British sentiment."
"It's an old tactic to divert attention away from the fact that
institutions
at home barely function," Ms. Mendelson said.
-- Jon Ward, White House correspondent, The Washington Times