Putin given friendly reception by leaders of France, Germany and Spain

came up ?

...into little itty bitty pieces. Putin goes to the same countries and no protesters. Wonder if they are trying to tell our Crackhead In Chief something?

Don

do MOMMY BUSH AND POPPY BUSH AND BUBBA JEB tell him YOU'RE THE BEST, YOU'RE THE BEST, YOU'RE THE BEST? THE LOCAL NEWS JUST HAD A SHOT OF JEBBIE, MOMMY AND SONNY WALKING OUT, ON TO A STAGE, HERE IN SUNNY FLORIDA TO SELL SONNY'S SOCIAL SECURITY BUSH HIGHWAY ROBBERY. I GOT SO ANGRY SEING THE OLD MOMMY BUSH WHO DOES NOT NEED SOCIAL SECURITY TO LIVE ON, LENDING A HAND TO SONNY'S HIGHWAY STEAL ... My feelings towards them have gone from Can't stand to see them, to: they really make my anger rise!

....when Russia gave up Communism, very few people died....Russia went through hard transitional times without lashing-out at the World....they proved themselves to be stable adults....now they're beginning to reap the benefits....

....can you imagine bushco giving up Capitalism?....without slinging nuclear bombs all over the World?....

that they will move on without the US. I wonder if the streets were cleared or were the people allowed to greet him (unlike the boy king)?

someone else will.

Like, the rest of the world.

Whoda thunk?

Don

and how sad is that??



French President Jacques Chirac (R), Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (L), Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) (2nd R) and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (news - web sites) (2nd L) walk through the Elysee garden after a working session March 18, 2005 in Paris. The heads of states gathered in Paris for the first-ever four-way summit. REUTERS/Patrick Kovarik/Pool

but next to bush he looks reasonable.

scary. bush destroys everything he touches, always has.

who the fuck whould guess this would appen?

For the last four years they have only been hurt by siding with the US. Looks as if it is time they are reconsidering their options.

lately for my taste. Glad to see they're having this get together with Putin. In fact, when I heard it this am on the BBC WS, I was overjoyed.

This article from the March 16 World Media Watch describes the EU, Bush, and Iran and how EU may have messed themselves up.




1//Asia Times Online, Hong Kong March 16, 2005
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GC16Ak02.html

AN OFFER THAT CAN BE REFUSED

By Kaveh L Afrasiabi

TEHRAN - The Bush administration has offered modest incentives - of Iran's entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and spare parts for its aging airplanes - rejected by Iran as incommensurate with the huge nuclear card. In making this announcement, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made clear that this decision, reached with the European Three (ie France, Germany and Britain - EU-3) currently holding nuclear talks with Iran, implies that if Iran rejected the offer and insists on resuming its nuclear fuel cycle, then Europe would support the US's bid to take the matter to the United Nations Security Council for further action.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Assefi said Sunday in a statement that the country was determined to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, and "no pressure, bribe or threat" could make Iran give up.

This development is, indeed, troublesome for both Iran-EU relations as well as US-EU ties, notwithstanding the fact that the US continues to insist on Iran's permanent suspension of its uranium enrichment program, whereas the Paris Agreement, signed between Iran and the EU-3 last November, implicitly if not explicitly recognizes Iran's right under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to produce the nuclear fuel necessary for its reactors and, what is more, invites Iran to join a club of nuclear fuel-producing countries.

Thus, no matter how urgent the European desire to heal the trans-Atlantic rift with Washington, vividly demonstrated in President George W Bush's recent charm offensive in European capitals, the fact remains that in agreeing to bandwagon with the US on the next steps toward Iran, Europe has potentially bargained away its diplomacy and, worse, put at risk its carefully-cultivated nuanced approach toward Iran; already, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Dr Hassan Rowhani, has warned that in light of Iran's full compliance with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections, Iran will immediately cease negotiations with Europe and resume nuclear fuel production if Iran's dossier is sent to the Security Council.

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