I can see it happening. Hey, this bastard administration has proven themselves below reproach.

Putin accuses U.S. of orchestrating Georgian war

SOCHI, Russia (CNN) — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates. [...]

Gee… Wonder just who the hell that would have been?

“U.S. citizens were indeed in the area in conflict,” Putin said. “They were acting in implementing those orders doing as they were ordered, and the only one who can give such orders is their leader.”

Would be absolutely fair terrible if Putin were to see George Bush as George Bush saw Saddam Hussein… invade America and hang his ass.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino blasted Putin’s statements, saying they were “patently false.”

“To suggest that the United States orchestrated this on behalf of a political candidate just sounds not rational,” she said.

Yes, bitch, we know. Don’t suggest anything negative about overlord Bush, or you’ll step out of the shadows and squawk and be shrill on command.

It would appear Condi’s meeting with Putin was a bust. I wonder what Chimpy’s reaction to this will be.

Putin Visits Iran, Sends Warnings to US

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Russian leader Vladimir Putin met his Iranian counterpart Tuesday and implicitly warned the U.S. not to use a former Soviet republic to stage an attack on Iran. He also said nations shouldn’t pursue oil pipeline projects in the area if they weren’t backed by regional powers.
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Putin has warned the U.S. and other nations against trying to coerce Iran into reining in its nuclear program and insists peaceful dialogue is the only way to deal with Tehran’s defiance of a U.N. Security Council demand that it suspend uranium enrichment.

“Threatening someone, in this case the Iranian leadership and Iranian people, will lead nowhere,” Putin said Monday during his trip to Germany. “They are not afraid, believe me.”

VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press

Source: AP

Russia = diplomacy
US = war-mongering

How did we get here? Oh, yeah… years of republican control.

By Peter Finn
The Washington Post

MOSCOW, Sept. 12 – President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday nominated a longtime associate who is a largely anonymous figure to be the country’s new prime minister, scrambling predictions about who will be the Kremlin-backed candidate in next March’s presidential election.

Viktor Zubkov, 65, was chosen by the president hours after Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov resigned. Zubkov, chairman of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service, a body that investigates money-laundering, must be approved by the lower house of parliament, or Duma, which invariably approves Kremlin initiatives.

Fradkov, a colorless technocrat who loyally followed Kremlin orders, said he was leaving his post so Putin would have a free hand to create a new government in the run-up to the presidential election, as well as parliamentary elections scheduled for December.

Putin, accepting Fradkov’s resignation, sounded a similar note to explain the government reshuffle, and also hinted that Zubkov may be around for a while.

“We all need to think about how to build up the structure of power and governance so they are better suited to the pre-election period,” said Putin in televised remarks from the Kremlin. He added that “we need to prepare the country for the time after the parliamentary election and after the presidential election.”

read more HERE

By Caren Bohan
from Reuters

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, hosting Vladimir Putin at his family’s estate on Maine’s rocky coast, will seek to revive a friendship with the Russian president amid tensions that have evoked comparisons to the Cold War.

Arriving on Sunday in picturesque Kennebunkport, Putin will dine in the evening with the Bush family at Walker’s Point, the summer home of Bush’s father, former President George Bush.

Bush and Putin will hold a policy session on Monday and may take in some fishing.

U.S. and Russian officials have described the Kennebunkport meeting as informal and emphasized that big announcements are unlikely on some of the difficult issues, such as a proposed U.S. missile shield in Europe and independence for Kosovo.

“One should not expect any breakthroughs to be made or any major decisions to be announced or documents signed,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

“The point of the meeting is to explain to each other mutual concerns and positions on certain questions.”

Iran is one topic the White House is eager to raise. Bush plans to try to enlist Putin’s support for wider economic sanctions aimed at pressuring Tehran over its nuclear program.

read more at REUTERS

I’d give everything I own to see this…

Bush, Putin to discuss missile defense

JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer

HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - President Bush said he hoped to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that a Europe-based U.S. missile defense system is not an issue either side should “be hyperventilating about.”

Bush and Putin are seeing each other here for the first time since they clashed over U.S. plans for a missile shield flared into Cold War’style rhetoric.

With U.S.-Russia relations at their lowest point in decades, Putin and Bush will sit down Thursday on the sidelines of a summit of the world’s eight major industrialized democracies being held at this seaside resort.

The United State says the shield targets a potential Iranian nuclear weapon, not Russian ones. Russia retorts that’s an “insufficient” explanation. Putin has warned that a new shield could require Russia to retarget missiles toward Europe or take other buildup measures.

Trying to tamp down Moscow’s anger, Bush officials have argued that it’s obvious the defense system isn’t aimed at Russia because of its huge arsenal of nuclear rockets.

“A missile defense system cannot stop multilaunch regimes. … The fact is that you can’t stop two, three, four, five missiles,” the president said after a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

He added: “Russia is not a threat. They’re not a military threat. They’re not something that we ought to be hyperventilating about.”

More at Yahoo! News

Our madman of a president isn’t going to stop until we’re all wiped off the planet. When can impeachment get put back on the table?

MSNBC.com:

Bush, Putin hold tense call on missile defense

Conversation highlights strains between two countries

WASHINGTON - Russian President Vladimir Putin registered his concerns Wednesday with President Bush about a planned U.S. missile defense system in Central Europe in a conversation that highlighted strains between the two nations.
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‘Growing tensions and mistrust’
Despite Russia’s support last Saturday for a U.N. resolution toughening sanctions on Iran for refusing to stop enriching uranium, “there are growing tensions and mistrust in both capitals,” Dimitri Simes, president of the Nixon Center, said in an interview.

“And it makes it more difficult to work together on nonproliferation and counter-terrorism,” Simes said.
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As for Iran, Simes said Russia does not want to see it armed with nuclear weapons. “But Russia also does not want to see a U.S. military action against Iran, no matter what,” Simes said.