Bush backs away from public spat with Putin

[Rose Siding]

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - President Bush backed away on Saturday from a public confrontation over Russia's democracy with President Vladimir Putin, adhering to a pledge not to lecture the Kremlin leader......

Bush said it came up at their social dinner on Friday night.

"I talked about my desire to promote institutional change in parts of the world like Iraq, where there is a free press and free religion, and I told him that a lot of people in our country, you know, would hope that Russia would do the same thing," Bush said.

He quickly added: "I totally understand, however, that there will be a Russian-style democracy. I don't expect Russia to look like the United States. As Vladimir pointedly reminded me last night, 'We have a different history, different traditions."'

Putin pounced on the reference to Iraq. "We of course don't want to have a democracy like the one in Iraq, to be honest," he deadpanned, to laughter from Russian-speaking listeners.

Upon hearing the translation of Putin's remark, Bush interjected: "Just wait."

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A laughingstock. We're a laughing stock! Congress actually tasked bush with lecturing Putin on democracy! "Just wait" he says. For, you know, *history*. He's gone to war with another part of speech: The Present.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Just saw the clip on the news.. SWEET

the laughter made the jab even sharper....

Bush is the butt boy of the G8.. a real world class idiot

[itzamirakul]

6. I abhor Bush...but I hate to see the U.S. A, become the joke of the

world. Especially by Russia, who we fought so very long in a cold war.

Bush has taken the country that used to be the most respected, and THE MOST FEARED and turned it into a ball of cotton candy. Into Swiss Cheese...full of holes. This war in Iraq shows all of our vulnerabilities. A group of semi-organized rag-tag rebels is fighting with the greatest army in the world and what makes it so bad, these rebels are holding their own in the fight!

I am against the war and always have been. I, too, lived in the fantasy that no other country or group would ever dare attack us. Bush put us into a position were they not only tried to attack us...they succeeded. So much for THAT balloon...just stick a pin it it.

[C_U_L8R]

13. Me too... I'm embarrassed

and ashamed at what "our" president has done to us
and done to others in "our" name. I'm ashamed.

That said... truth and humor are our best weapons against this asshole.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

15. America is not laughed at, but our leadershit is.

Condi Rice and Dick Cheney have done immeasurable harm, yet both are utterly convinced that theirs is the proper path.

[Cha]

28. Yeah, I tend to think

bush is not gonna drag down America with his bad name and the bad names of con rice, the dick cheney, rummy, and the rest of the gargoyles.

Anyone with the real news and a brain outside the country can see they staged a coup with the help of our fascist media and the 5 extremely insane court deadly jesters.

[Joanne98]

2. We haven't had a real election since 1998. Can Putin help us?

get rid of the voting machines?

[madokie]

3. I think without realizing it he just did.

the masses are awakening

[blogslut]

4. I heard that

After president Peddles said..."Just wait", there was a pause so chilling I felt it. That weren't no joke.

[peekaloo]

5. Pootie Poot kicks Puss N Little Boots right in his dee-mock-rASS-ee.

"just wait". :eyes:

[Hubert Flottz]

7. "just wait".

Classic schoolyard bully line!

[peekaloo]

9. Exactly! Nothing to back up his bu$hit but empty words and gestures.

:hi:

[C_U_L8R]

8. And the poor dumbass freeps

seem to think that Bush was smackin' Pootie down.... bwahahahahhaha

Goodness these freeper idiots don't even realize when they've been whooped upside the head.
Talk about stoooooopid ... YIKES

[ProSense]

10. Just wait?

OMG, he's believes he's going to be credited for someone else's solution---however long it takes---because he created the effed up situation.

[ginnyinWI]

18. he thinks he knows better than everybody else

He takes the "long view" and can see how wonderful the future will be because of his actions! LOL. How many other despots and dictators have thought this same thing. The absolute arrogance of fools.

[Coexist]

11. But isn't W supposed to be the one with the cleverl quips?

He must be pissed.

and "just wait". WTF is that? He sounds like an impotent 5th grader.

How embarassing.

[reichstag911]

12. "Just wait?"

Does that mean that he'll move Russia up on the list of countries where he's going to send other people's kids to die? Is Russia next, or will it be Iran, Syria, North Korea, Lebanon, or maybe...Switzerland, yeah Switzerland, they haven't been in a war for a long, long time; we can kick their asses, right George? Or maybe we should start with Andorra, or Monaco, or Lichtenstein, just as a warmup (and, well, because we really haven't got the conventional military wherewithal to take on any real power at this point...but we sure can bomb the shit out of 'em from miles in the sky!)

[RagAss]

27. ...nobody has had much luck invading Russia.....

[peacetalksforall]

14. And watch our pimps and pimpesses skirting the issue and telling us

things that make it appear that he performed well.

I remember yesterday - with anger - pimps and pimpesses smeared Al Gore for his stiff neck, woodeness, brown shirts, the lock-box, and they filled their lies about his non-lies.

Pimps and pimpesses who make their mortgage money through Murdoch, General Electric, Time-Warner, Rev. Moon will continue to smear Gore and elevate George, our pitiful George. He tries, I think he really tries, but he is one mixed up soul. They have to coach, tutor, educate him for the role and don't always succeed because of his bull-headedness of remaining the frat cheerleader who morphed to cowboy, nothing more. It must be pretty awful to learn everyday that Cheney is really the President.

Yes, their code word for Cheney, Edgar (for Edgar McCarthy) is accurate.

Can you believe the amount of taxpayer money that goes into prepping him and supporting him?

[teryang]

16. "I thought you were going to ask me about the pig."

Who's the pig?

[seafan]

20. This is the pig.

A man looks to grilled wild boar at a barbecue for U.S. President George W. Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel with residents of the village Trinwillershagen near Stralsund, northern Germany, on Thursday, July 13, 2006. The U.S. president spends an official visit to Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)



A protester holds up a poster against U.S. President George W. Bush during a demonstration in the German town of Stralsund July 13, 2006. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts Bush on Thursday in a visit intended to solidify their ties and likely to focus on Iran and her concerns about the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Poster reads: 'No to War and Capitalism'. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann (GERMANY)


Transcript: Bush in Germany with Chancellor Merkel: On Iran, North Korea, Lebanon.

July 13, 2006

PRESIDENT BUSH: Chancellor, thank you very much. Thanks for the invitation. This is a beautiful part of the world, and Laura and I are so honored to come to your constituency and meet some of the friendly people who live here. I remember you coming to the Oval Office, and you said, if you are coming to Germany, this is the part of Germany I want you to see. And now I can see why you suggested it. I'm looking forward to the feast you're going to have tonight. I understand I may have the honor of slicing the pig

.

And I guess that's about all -- we discussed a lot of things, in other words. And thank you for having me. I'm looking forward to that pig tonight. (Laughter.)

Q A question addressed to you both. You talked about the Middle East, and what is your assessment of the military action of Israel in Lebanon? The French Foreign Minister already said it is disproportionate. Does that give you cause for Europe or the United States to intervene?

And apart from the pig, Mr. President, what sort of insights have you been able to gain as regards East Germany? -- (inaudible) --

Steve.

Q Thank you, sir. Just to follow up --

PRESIDENT BUSH: Follow up on?

Q On both of these. Does it concern you that the Beirut airport has been bombed? And do you see a risk of triggering a wider war?

And on Iran, they've, so far, refused to respond. Is it now past the deadline, or do they still have more time to respond?

PRESIDENT BUSH: I thought you were going to ask me about the pig.

Q I'm curious about that, too. (Laughter.)

PRESIDENT BUSH: The pig? I'll tell you tomorrow after I eat it.

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/net/20060714/large.8b5bf421b2944ddb0ca293df47a860a7.pjpeg
Destruction of home of Hezbollah leader by Israeli forces, 7-14-06, from Yahoo News, while the disengaged impostor smirks and jokes.

[teryang]

21. Thanks for photos and transcript

It's hard to believe.

Let them eat pig! I hear they'll be a slaughter.

[seafan]

22. You're welcome, teryang. IMHO, * crossed the Rubicon this week.

We have hit the point of no return with what is happening in Lebanon, Israel and Syria, with the Decider hiding out, sucking on his barbecue-stained fingers.

No one in this world knows what will happen next. Not a good way to be for any of us.

One thing I am sure of, and that is that we will not even BEGIN to turn all of this around for the better until we remove these bastards from power.

[Sugar Smack]

31. I need a drink.

:cry: :banghead:

[durrrty libby]

17. "just wait" sounds threatening

I don't get it. What did he mean by that?

[patricia92243]

19. All that is needed is for Bush to "Look into Putin's eyes and see his soul

Everything will be okey-dokey then. :sarcasm:

[Disturbed]

23. Eating pork is forbidding for Jews and Muslims.

Busholini is a fool for promoting it.

[RagAss]

24. The shrub needs to wear an friggin Clownsuit when he's out in the world...

[guinivere]

25. Well, at least he didn't blurt "Ahm tellin mama."

"Just wait" is just as childish. That's what that shrub is. A big, dangerous, thoughtless, self-centered, spoiled child.

[Neshanic]

26. Putin looks like he is suffering an imbecile when with him.

The looks, the body language, all seem to be him thinking "what a fucking idiot."

[Avalux]

29. Free press in Iraq? LOL.

The man is so fucking delusional - Al Jazeera is not allowed to broadcast there, and as much as possible, the Pentagon controls what comes out.

Putie's comment IS funny, and terribly, terribly embarrassing.

[liberaliraqvet26]

30. At least Putin was elected the first time.

Shrub was selected. And he talks about democracy.