U.S. envoy dispatched after Putin charge

President's Bush's national security adviser is embarking on a high-level mission to Moscow and other European capitals, just over a week after incendiary remarks about Bush and the United States by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Stephen Hadley was departing Washington Tuesday for a four-day trip to Brussels, Moscow and Berlin, said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for Hadley and Bush's National Security Council.

In Brussels, Hadley planned to meet with NATO and European Union officials. In Moscow and Berlin, he was scheduled to sit down with his counterparts in the Russian and German governments.

(snip)
The trip has been planned for weeks. But it comes at a particularly delicate time in the Washington-Moscow relationship, meaning the Russian portion of his travels would be the most closely watched.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_russia_1

seriously?

It will be all the Russian counterparts can do to keep from laughing at this oaf.

just to add to the war on terrorism?

...It will save Millions of lives Ms. Pelosi.