Putin to Suspend Pact With NATO

[Ganja Ninja]

MOSCOW, April 26 — President Vladimir V. Putin said Thursday that Russia would suspend its compliance with a treaty on conventional arms in Europe that was forged at the end of the cold war, opening a fresh and intense dispute in the souring relations between NATO and the Kremlin.

The announcement, made in Mr. Putin’s annual address to Parliament, underscored the Kremlin’s anger at the United States for proposing a new missile defense system in Europe, which the Bush administration insists is meant to counter potential threats from North Korea and Iran.

Mr. Putin suggested that Russia would use its future compliance with the treaty as a bargaining point in that disagreement with the United States.

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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking in Oslo at a gathering of diplomats from NATO countries, reacted coldly to Mr. Putin’s speech.

“These are treaty obligations, and everyone is expected to live up to treaty obligations,” she said.

:eyes: How quaint.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/world/europe/27russia.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[NNN0LHI]

1. Russia will be selling mobile ICBMs to Bush's enemies next n/t

[SoCalDem]

2. Not Bushie's sweet widdle Pootie-Poot.. say it ain't so

[Ghost in the Machine]

11. good ol' pooty-poot!

[Skidmore]

15. Now that is a scary picture. * really thought he understood this man?

Pootie-poot has been laugh his tush off at Little Boots...reeling him in...slowly...steady there...slowly.....

SNAP! The jaws of death close...

[mmonk]

3. Obvious reaction to American policy.

Re-polarization of the world. It feeds the military industrial complex and the politicians that suckle from its breast.

[moondust]

4. And the ABM treaty Condi?

We can do what we want 'cause god's on our side?

[bdamomma]

5. that's rather hypocritical isn't it Condi, what about our total disregard

for the Geneva Convention Treaty!

[Ganja Ninja]

7. These people are just impervious to irony.

It just bounces off of them like bullets off Superman.

[peacetalksforall]

13. More proof - they think we're utterly stupid.

[Solly Mack]

6. Oh well

“These are treaty obligations, and everyone is expected to live up to treaty obligations,” she said.

[Lobster Martini]

8. Condi, stop taking the meds, please

"...the scale of the proposed missile defense system was obviously far too small to defend against the Russian nuclear arsenal."

Did Condi actually tell Putin that Russia shouldn't object to a missile defense system because it's design guarantees that it will be ineffective?

[malaise]

9. Condi really spoke on Treaties and Conventions?

“These are treaty obligations, and everyone is expected to live up to treaty obligations,” she said.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Condi didn't seriously say that did she?

Listen Condi, as the master said 'If you dig one ditch, you'd better dig two, one for your brother and one for you'.

The chickens are coming home to roost.

[Warren Stupidity]

10. That Rice woman was misquoted.

Here is what she actually said: "These are treaty obligations, and everyone else in the world except the United States is expected to live up to treaty obligations."

[Coventina]

12. Hey Bush, how d'ya like your legacy now?

Bitch got us back in the Cold War. Nice goin' ya moran.

[Selatius]

14. To Putin, Condi's statement's are hilarious, in light of the US withdrawing from the ABM Treaty.

If the US won't honor its own treaty obligations, why should Russia continue to honor theirs?