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Obama: When someone throws a drowning man a life preserver, he cant afford to question his rescuers intentions. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Clearly Vladimir Putin, whose relationship with Obama is famously frosty, has no interest in doing him favors. Moscows gesture was meant to help its ally Assad by preventing a U.S. strike that could have benefited the Syrian opposition. U.S. President Barack Obama Thus, this week President Obama eagerly grabbed a lifeline thrown by the Russians: a proposal that international monitors take control of and destroy Syrias chemical arsenal. Moscows offer gave the president an excuse to postpone a congressional vote on authorizing a military strike against Syria a strike meant to punish Bashar al-Assad for crossing a chemical-weapons "red line" by gassing civilians. The Kremlin saved Obama from public humiliation since he was almost certain to lose the vote. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.