No one saw the Putin, Bush breakup coming. After Bush confessed to looking into Putin's blue eyes and seeing that he could do business with the guy, it was like a done deal, a pronouncement at the alter. The world took a breather: perestroika and glasnost all over again. The honeymoon was soon over after Bush asked Putin to join his coalition in Iraq, saying "No" to a piece of the oil pie. "Net oil? Net medovy mesyats!" (honeymoon)
So Bush went to war in Iraq without Putin; became bungled; asked for help to get him out of the war mess. "Net." Estrangement wafted the air.
When Bush requested stiffer sanctions against Iran due to their nuclear weapons program and possibility of making an atomic bomb, it was, "Net," again. Lots of rubles to be made in Iran. Putin started wearing sunglasses.
With the recent release of the National Intelligence Estimate, a report composed by sixteen intelligence agencies in the United States and commissioned by the U. S. Senate, a report Dick Cheney did not want released, (and possible cause requiring Cheney's heart to be reset) the Bush, Putin love fest crumbled to a kaput.
The NIE study reported that Iran shut down its nuclear weapons program in 2003, but Bush presented Iran as the cause for World War III, building tensions, oil prices skyrocketing. Even Osama Bin Laden cooperated with the promise of a threatening message. Former 9/11 candidate Rudolph Giuliani became incredibly more wild-eyed and finger waving on the campaign trail. "What? I'm former 9/11 candidate? I lost my 9/11 title? I'm the Sex On The City candidate? But will it get me the White House?" Net.
Putin said Russia was helping Iran build a nuclear reactor boasting total cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency. There's no evidence Iran's planing to build nuclear weapons. So much for Putin's blue eyes. End of relationship.
Start of the relationship between Karl Rove and George Bush, seeing Bush for the first time, "Huge amounts of charisma, swagger, cowboy boots, flight jacket, wonderful smile, just charisma - you know, wow."
Must be the blue eyes..
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