Putin earlier Monday compared the actions of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to war crimes perpetrated by deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
"Saddam Hussein, of course, needed to be hanged for destroying several Shiite villages," Putin said. "But (not) the current Georgian leadership, which in less than an hour drove tanks through children and old people, burned people alive in their homes. These leaders need to be protected!"
All I remember Putin doing is trying to stop the U.S. from enforcing UN resolutions against Saddam. Wow.
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