Putin: "We"re not interested in the USA losing their fight against international terrorism, we are their partners. But Iraq is a special case, there were no international terrorists there under Hussein. Use of force out of one"s borders can be allowed only by UN Security Council sanctions. Hence everything done without such sanctions can not be legitimate, neither be justified. And it is speaking softly. But in the history of humankind great countries, empires, have always suffered a number of problems: feelings of invulnerability, of greatness, of infallibility. This has always worked against them. I hope it wouldn"t happen to our American partners."