Putin warns against U.S. missile defense. Has Rice and Gates wait for 40 minutes.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

The MSNBC article says missile defense. IMHO it is more like missile offense. If I were Putin I wouldn't be too happy that Shrub wants to set-up missiles in Eastern Europe.
Not all that comforting.

The Today Show reported that Putin had Rice and Gates wait for 40 minutes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21262371/

Putin warns against U.S. missile defense
Russian president takes firm tone with visiting Rice, Gates during key talks

Updated: 4:29 a.m. ET Oct 12, 2007

MOSCOW - In a tense start to talks on a range of thorny issues, President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned U.S. officials to back off a plan to install missile defenses in eastern Europe or risk harming relations with Moscow.

Addressing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the Russian president appeared to mock the U.S. missile defense plan, which is at the center of a tangle of arms control and diplomatic disputes between the former Cold War adversaries.

"Of course we can sometime in the future decide that some anti-missile defense system should be established somewhere on the moon," Putin said, according to an English translation. "But before we reach such arrangements we will lose the opportunity for fixing some particular arrangements between us."

Putin said Russia may feel obliged to abandon its obligations under a 1987 missile treaty with the United States if it is not expanded to constrain other missile-armed countries.

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[leftchick]

1. condi is such an embarrasment for this country

duh!



U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, and U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, right, smile as Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with an unidentified member of US delegation, unseen, at the presidential residence of Novo-Ogaryovo near Moscow, Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. In a tense start to talks on a range of thorny issues, President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned U.S. officials to back off a plan to install missile defenses in eastern Europe or risk harming relations with Moscow. ( (AP Photo/ Alexander Zemlianichenko, pool )

[bdamomma]

2. I wouldn't play with Putin, Condi better watch her a$$

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. Our true President just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and the sElected usurper wants to throw us

into WWIII.

As to CondiLieza? She hasn't a clue about Putin.