Condi stunned by Putin's frosty tone.

[partylessinOhio]

Just reported on NBC Nightly News by Andrea Mitchell. Putin kept her and Gates waiting for 40 minutes. He was quite adamant about putting those anti-missiles near Russia - suggesting the US might put them on the Moon instead.

We are back to the days of the cold war thanks to * who saw Putin's soul.

[aquart]

1. That woman is so out of her league.

Forty minutes? How long did Georgie keep the Pope waiting?

[partylessinOhio]

4. But, but she's a Russian expert.

:rofl:

US-Russia missile defense talks fail
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer
9 minutes ago



MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin warned President Bush's top two Cabinet officials on Friday to back off U.S. missile defense plans for eastern Europe as high-level talks yielded little more than a pledge to meet again.

Despite presenting new cooperation proposals intended to bring Moscow on board, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates failed in a series of tough meetings to turn around Moscow's opposition to the system and other strategic issues.

Putin set the tone early on when he hosted Rice and Gates and their Russian counterparts at his country home outside Moscow and delivered a stern rebuff to U.S. plans to push ahead with establishing missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic.

In combative comments that took the U.S. side aback during a photo session, Putin criticized Bush's pet project and threatened to pull out of a Cold War-era treaty that limits intermediate-range missiles.

"We may decide someday to put missile defense systems on the moon, but before we get to that we may lose a chance for agreement because of you implementing your own plans," he told Rice and Gates in Russian, according to an Associated Press translation.

"We hope that in the process of such complex and multifaceted talks you will not be forcing forward your previous agreements with eastern European countries," Putin said. ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071012/ap_on_re_eu/us_russia;_ylt=Ai1.YlOzBPcunlJvaRSptU2s0NUE

[ccpup]

8. Georgie kept the Pope waiting?

I hadn't heard this! Do tell!!!!!!

[tularetom]

2. Could she really be that goddamn dumb?

Putin is nothing if not a master of subtle one upsmanship. And besides she has no standing at all with him, even less than *.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. ex USSR KGB vs. Condi shoe shopping Rice. Putin seems very humorless, but

I'm afraid this is just the sort of thing that makes him chuckle. MKJ

[aquart]

5. A middle-aged man who deliberately goes topless on the internet

Has a fully intact sense of humor.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

9. Oh, how could I forget!

LOL, :rofl: MKJ

[msongs]

6. putin has more in common with stalin than bush nt

[partylessinOhio]

7. These photos say a lot.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice listens
as she and Defence Secretary Robert Gates meet Russia's
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, October 12, 2007.


U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seen at a news
conference in Moscow, Friday, Oct. 12, 2007. 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.

[scarface2004]

10. i heard putin..

told her to go fuck herself in russian!!

[aquart]

13. I'm so wrong to hope so.

Bad Abby.

[Aviation Pro]

11. Condomlezza Rice....

...was a piss poor Russian Studies student, has a two-year old's grasp of the yazik (language), and completely blew the fall of the Soviet Union. Her only purpose is to serve as Bush's school marm and ex-KGB polkovnik (Colonel) Putin ate her for breakfast.

[xchrom]

12. some expert you are, condi -- some expert.

[dflprincess]

14. There was a horrible story in the Minneapolis paper yesterday about an 11 month old who drowned

in the bathtub while her mother shoe shopped on line. There has to be something wrong with me because as tragic and awful as this story is my first thought when I read the headling was "I didn't know Condi had kids."