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I'd say you have to treat any such revelations of this sort (at this stage) with a grain of salt. Question why the administration did not use such information to build their case before the war; evidence that was not wholly speculative would have shored up public support.
Consider this from the LA Times: "It's apparent that Russians and President Putin are interested in a second term for Bush," said Liliya Shevtsova of the Carnegie Moscow Center. "We've always had good relations with Republicans. We dislike Democrats, because Democrats always care about democracy in Russia."
My guess would be Putin's playing politics in keeping his country out of harm's way concerning troop deployment but also lending support to the favored man (who calls him Pooty-poot). But who knows what the hell is going on at this point, really.
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