Meeting between Bush, Putin reveals divisions on sensitive issues

[wtmusic]

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - President Bush (news - web sites) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) tried to show unity Thursday, but their blunt and sometimes testy exchanges over Putin's commitment to democracy showed that relations between the two remained sensitive.

On the final day of his five-day tour to repair relations with Europe, a jocular Bush found himself at a news conference standing next to a stone-faced Putin, who appeared peeved at questions of whether he's rolling back democratic government as he consolidates power in his own hands.

"Russia has made its choice in favor of democracy," Putin said defensively. "This is our final choice and there is no way back, there can be no return to what we used to have."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/20050224/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_bush_wa_1

AKA "Bush the Great Divider Does It Again".

[lovuian]

1. Putin looked in Bush's soul and found a vicious &vindictive man

No wonder Putin was stone faced... theres nothing to smile about here!!!

[wtmusic]

3. Might make sense

to make friends with the man who is providing Iran with nuke fuel.

Just a thought. :eyes:

[AlinPA]

4. Actually, he looked into Bush**'s ear and saw the other side of the room.

[DELUSIONAL]

5. Probably closer to the truth.

There ain't nothing there -- no soul and brainless.

[Rex]

2. Putin should have pointed out the recent abductions by our govt

of American citizens. You know, the ones that end up dead or tortured close to death in other countries (our allies). I would have asked how the Patriot Act makes us a better democracy than Russia. Do democratic countries violate the Geneva Convention and torture suspects without solid evidence? Do democratic countries suppress anything they can when it comes to investigating 911?

Bush, as usual, makes us all look like idiots!