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...been very low key, but Moscow has kept close tabs on the U.S. presidential race. Russian President VLADIMIR PUTIN has cabled his embassy in Washington demanding periodic updates on what the polls show, and Russian diplomats have been hitting the lunch circuit to mine reporters and pundits on who is ahead--or, to be more precise, on how GEORGE W. BUSH is doing. And how hard line his foreign policy advisers...
...Bush's alarming lack of command of the issues. He may have a star-studded group of advisers at the ready, but what happens when Colin Powell and Condalezza Rice disagree over whether to go to war, say, in the Middle East? If you want to watch Vladimir Putin, Jiang Zemin and Saddam Hussein eat George W. for breakfast while we blow $60 billion or more erecting an ineffective and geopolitically destabilizing anti-missile system, vote Bush-Cheney...
...Putin had to spend an awful lot of money and ask the divers to risk their lives to pull bodies, and less than that, from the sunken sub. The last thing he wanted was a note with a voice literally from the dead telling Russians that the government had misled them from the beginning. The cover-up story from the Kremlin and the Northern Fleet was that the crew had died instantly, but this note shows that we still don't know how long the last crew member survived after the Kursk went down. It's obviously significant that...
...Does that create any more problems for Putin than he already...
...really. It's a new chapter in a p.r. nightmare for the president, and it will certainly reopen the wound. Nobody has forgotten the Kursk, or the way the Putin administration handled the news and the failed recovery. But although he took a hit in the polls for his handling of the crisis, it hasn't mortally wounded him by any stretch...