Rice Slams Russian General Over Warning

General Says Czech Republic And Poland Could Be Targeted If They Allow U.S. Missile Defenses

(AP)  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday called a Russian general's warning that Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted if they host U.S. missile defense bases "extremely unfortunate." Rice also repeated assurances the system does not threaten Russia.

Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov, head of Russia's strategic missile forces, said Monday that Russia might train its missiles on the two countries if they accept a U.S. proposal to base 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic.

"I think that was an extremely unfortunate comment," Rice said at a news conference in Berlin, adding that the system did not threaten Moscow's forces "and we have had the opportunity to explain that to Russia."

She said the United States has made clear to Russia that the system would be to counter any missile threat from Iran. The system is too small to stop Russia's large nuclear arsenal, she said.

"Anyone who knows anything about this knows that there is no way that 10 interceptors ... are a threat to Russia or that they are somehow going to diminish Russia's deterrent of thousands of warheads," Rice said.

"I think everyone understands that with a growing Iranian missile threat, which is quite pronounced, that there need to be ways to deal with that problem," she added.

The missile dispute is chilling relations between Moscow and Washington, which have already been damaged by differences over NATO's eastward expansion and U.S. concerns over human rights in Russia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow sees the establishment of the missile defense sites as a signal that the United States wants to gain nuclear superiority over Russia. He dismissed U.S. claims that it was to counter Iranian threats.

"If they talk about potential threats coming from Iran or North Korea, missile defense elements should be located in a different place," Lavrov said in an interview published Wednesday in the daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta. "We can't help noting that these facilities would be capable of intercepting missiles launched from Russia."

[bigwhtpony]

"Russian President Vladimir Putin has sharply criticized the U.S. missile defense plan, saying it risks provoking a new Cold War."

Bring it on, Puski......your vodka imbibed country is in no position (financially or militarily) to mount another cold war. So take another drink and go sit down!

[mitywhity]

The Ruskies are jumping at every opportunity to wave their sabres. They want a cold war anyway. Anyone who doesn't see them re-arming and becoming a menace down the road in the not-too-distant future is blind.

[middleman8]

Here we go again..The last cold war Russia and the U S threatened each other over Canada.This time Canada should have a thousand nuke-rockets and inform these two countries that the first one to try to use Canada as a battle ground gets wiped out.

[agnim]

Posted by bigwhtpony at 11:42 AM : Feb 21, 2007

The last bungling fool to issue his childish "bring it on!" is getting it up where the Sun don't shine, enough to increase his gray hair count. LOL

Those countries already have demonstrated their stupidity by joining the witless "coalition of the willing" in Iraq, and had to turn tail.

They are again creating even more problem with THEIR POWERFUL NEIGHBOR by foolishly following the present administration's effort to intimidate and bully.

They tried it with China earlier on; and China knocked down one of our spy planes and had it cart it out of China in pieces; yet we don't seem to learn that large nations can STILL hurt us real bad if we continue to fight the Cold War.

[bluestardad]

Put a bag on Rices face and stuff her mouth with cotton. She should not be permitted to speak to anyone of another country until 2009. she has done enough damage.

[snooze55]

I think Russia should Join the United States and co-develop a missile defense system that benefits both countries. In fact, why won't Washington as Russia to host a missile defense system as well and assist in manning it. I think it's time that Russia and the United States become co-equal partners in strategic defense, self-defense and the war against terrorism.

[snooze55]

I think Russia should Join the United States and co-develop a missile defense system that benefits both countries. In fact, why won't Washington as Russia to host a missile defense system as well and assist in manning it. I think it's time that Russia and the United States become co-equal partners in strategic defense, self-defense and the war against terrorism.

[bwessels]

Russia wants to be part of the EU, G8 (G7), even NATO I think. If Iran is the problem, offer to put the interceptors in Russian soil under our control. Put up or shut up, Vlad.

[olebd]

Once again, it's about oil. Iran is a supplier to Russia and Russia doesn't want to jeapordize that.

[lars008-2009]

putin.......... did you forget????

NEVER FORGET THE RAPES OF BESLAN GIRLS!
Terror at Beslan
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1316935651894423094

RAPES IN BESLAN: IN MUHAMMAD%u2019S FOOTSTEPS
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Trifkovic04/NewsST091304.html

Forget Not the Children of Beslan
http://kenlydell.typepad.com/islamic_evil/forget_not_the_children_of_beslan/index.html

Religion of Peace??? More like a cult of death.
http://www.terrorists-suck.org/why_suck/beslan.html

[lars008-2009]

olebd
russia exports oil haji.... hahahahahahaha

Russia's oil renaissance
Opec ministers want to maintain curbs on oil exports, but Russia's oil output is growing dramatically. In the first of two articles, BBC News Online reports on Russia's newly resurgent oil industry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2058214.stm

[lars008-2009]

snooze55

the usa offered to share it with them.... back in the 80s

[clements212]

First of all, as a Russian-American, I'm offended at some of the comments made here! Its very sad to see that in 2007 there are still people who are stupid enough to think that its acceptable to use ethnic slurs or other bigoted remarks to make some sort of half-baked political point. Second of all, considering the HUGE Iraq mess we are in and the general instability in the Middle East, what in the world are we doing antagonizing yet another country? Is this administration purposefully trying to create instability in the world?! This bad for America and bad for the world!

[lars008-2009]

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
This is just as true of the man who puts %u201Cnative%u201D before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

[lars008-2009]

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City 12 October 1915 Theodore Roosevelt

[jebediah76]

Clements -
As a Russian American you should be equally dismayed that the motherland is itching to ratchet up the rhetoric on nuclear first strike capabilities. The reason the whole thing works is that the US and Russia have enough nukes to annihilate everyone - and everyone can pretty much agree that a nuclear first strike would be pointless for either nation. What is to gain if the people are gone and the ability to step foot on the continent of Asia is null and void for a million years?

Not so for Iran - and as one of the other major nuclear players the Russian military should be offering to help in missile deterent systems to so that we do not get a nuclear rogue state in the middle east.

Personally I think we should provide Ahmenadijad with ten ICBMs and give them to him with an iron clad guarantee that if they light one off on anyone pre-emptively, that the nation of Iran, starting with the great city of Tehran, will shortly become a large green glass tourist attraction for generations to come with - No questions asked.

[jebediah76]

Lars - while the spirit of what you say seems right you should think about this. Language like --No room in America for those who are disloyal-- Is frighteningly Nazisitic. Loyal to What? To the Governement? The reason we vote is so that we can show our leaders what will cause us to be disloyal. This is why we have such a strong nation.

I think it is a xenophobic and dangerous idea put forth by Theodore and now by you. I don't care what someone puts in front of their name with or without a hyphen - as long as it ends in American and is said with pride and reverence for the idea that all men and women are created equal and that their loyalty be to the idea that freedom is an absolute - not a political prop for the self-riteous.

[skyk-2009]

The Problem with the administration of Sir Lies-A-Lot is the same today that it has been since the "Smoking Gun". Who with a normal level of intelligence can believe anything this Cow Rice say's. Certainly not the citizens of the World in which we live. When you elect Southern Fascist to represent you on the world stage you should expect this as a reality. When you elect people who will bring the Government of the Worlds biggest superpower back into session so some Slimy little Leader of the Religious Reich can interfer between the Courts and a Family, not to many people in the world will take you serious when it comes to morals. People who do such things have NO morals...the administration of Sir Lies-A-Lot has no morals.

[grazinggoat]

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.
The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American.
Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City 12 October 1915 Theodore Roosevelt
Posted by lars008

-Israel and PNAC were not existing at that time... how would Theo have behaved?

[formrusmcsgt]

More proof that the administration never misses an opportunity to show it is for conflict and confrontation as opposed to peaceful coexistence....

[grazinggoat]

Let me tell you something Liars008. The man or woman who disconnect completely from his roots and homeland IS a danger for humanity. Immigrating to a country does not mean that one has to leave every background home.

The USA is a country proud of all its minorities, with no exception. The immigrants who embark on a journey on the American soil don't stop breathing oxygen. They still breathe the same oxygen they used to breath before, drink the same H2O they used to drink before and poop the same sh*t then before...

Often they leave the comfort of the homeland to look for a better future in the USA for them and their family... Best case to mention here is Obama. That doesn't mean (she) he has to strip off of everything that was characterizing him (her). Let me tell you that Roosevelt was right back then, but erring nowadays%u2019 present time.

[dallison7]

Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City 12 October 1915 Theodore Roosevelt
Posted by lars008

1915... almost one hundred years ago. Lars, circunstances were different then, we live in a different world. Just as we hear the religious zealots condeming things like abortion and stem cell research, telling us that the God of the Bible would not condone such things. Folks, I'm sorry you haven't noticed, this is the 21st century. The Bible is ancient text. If you intend to apply it to today's problems you will need an updated version.

[dallison7]

On a serious note. Take a look at her picture. If that's not a Klingon I'll eat your grandma.

[zootallures2]

Oh, I believe..lol. Putin and the rest of the crazy world leaders are just as looney as Condoleeza and Bush. You are all in on this crazy war and killing stuff. There are no good guys and the world citizens aren't much better. Nothing but arrogant, unappreciative, hateful nuts not worth the life God gave them.

[ndjam]

There is something amusing about criticism of the use of force by the man who turned Chechnya into a smoldering ruin. Putin and his Russian stooges love to intimidate countries with useless threats and fear mongering talk of a nuclear attack. Everyone on here should go read about how this thug has oppressed and slaughtered millions of people in Chechnya and in Daghestan. This fear mongering rot(Putin) is no friend of the U.S. believe me. He would love nothing more than to destroy us and own this world. FREE CHECHNYA AND FREE DAGHESTAN from this murderous regime.

[zootallures2]

Putin and Bush need serious psychiatric help along with the crack pots who follow these immature nit-wits. Sick people addicted to war and killing.

[toolmangler-2009]

I agree with the snoozer. Should have seen that one coming. If you are working together then the trust factor kicks in and things start to get done.

[toolmangler-2009]

zootallures2. Please be quiet until you know what you are talking about. You are just looking like a fool right now. I am hoping that you are not but I have to go with the evidence and right now it is not good.

[fascistusa]

Sure. You can TRUST Fascists like Rice, Bush , and Cheney.

Those missles are just for "looks". Wink Wink.

Even Americans don't believe the Neo-Cons.

I wonder if their goal is WW3.

[fascistusa]

We need to hook Rice up with Warf from Star Treck : The Next Generation.

Take one for the team!!!

[fizzal-2009]

does gen. Nikolai Solovtsov know he gets his bread butterd with sale of oil and gas and trade goods through those countries?

[firststate]

The consummate diplomat, (neo)Con-de-Liar Rice has managed to impress or influence absolutely nobody on her whirl-wind tour of distraction. Could it be that, like the administration's her personal credibility is worth even less than old Enron stock certificates?

[zwaggsy]

Didn't it occur to anybody that with several NATO states engaged in a irrelevant war that several old enemy's would take advantage off this? Some people say that Bush & Blair are the people for the 21st century, personaly I think that their foresight & intuition suck!

[bildooreilly]

A million americans are homeless and these turds are going to spend billions of our tax dollars to protect EUROPE from Iran.

[annd2302]

Talk about looking like a gorilla, oh well we all came from some sort of cave dweller.

Enough about how she looks; now we need to think real hard about getting our soldiers back from Iran, this woman is going to start a war with Russia. It is high time we as Americans start thinking of America. Lock the borders, defend our land and let the rest of the world just have at it all they want, without our intervening.

Thought this was a done deal in the 1991 timeframe, So how is it Russia be allowed to have thousands of warheads or is she speaking of the 1600? (see last paragraph)

"Anyone who knows anything about this knows that there is no way that 10 interceptors ... are a threat to Russia or that they are somehow going to diminish Russia's deterrent of thousands of warheads," Rice said.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
START, officially the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, is a treaty, originally signed by the United States and the Soviet Union, that barred its signatories from deploying more than 6,000 warheads atop a total of 1,600 ICBMs, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and bombers. Proposed by United States President Ronald Reagan, it was renamed START I after negotiations began on the second START treaty, which became START II. It was signed on July 31, 1991, five months before the collapse of the Soviet Union.


End of story, or just the beginning?

[lars008-2009]

let the riots start........lol

The float carried two identical cartoon-style papier-mache figures, each wearing a suicide-bomber's belt and carrying a dagger and a pistol. The first was labelled 'the cliche,' the second was labelled 'the reality.'

Both scowling figures were labelled 'mullahs,' a term used to describe both Shiite and Sunni clergy. The float was part of a carnival parade watched by more than half a million people in the western city of Dusseldorf.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24507_German_Muslims_Seething_at_Carnival_Parade&only
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/news/article_1265687.php/Carnival_attracts_3_million_in_Germany_-_Muslims_offended__Roundup_

[lars008-2009]

I was talking today to a woman from Bosnia, she so many horrific inhuman things were dont by the Muslims to her people. She would only tell me a couple of what she thought was the least of the horrific things that were done... she said that the Muslims would take the pregnant women and asked them if they wanted to know what the *** of their baby is and even if the woman said NO, they would then proceed to cut the baby out of the womb then hold the baby up and tell the dying woman the *** of her baby... and to the men they would put him over a very sharp pointed stake, and eventually he wouldn't be able to hold his weight up and he would fall and impale himself through the bowels and die a horrific death...
These people say that Allah is all merciful, Allah will let people submit and live, but if they dont submit they die, simple...so we either submit or we die,, just as the quran says, and our leaders seem hell bent in putting us in more and more danger, they have allowed the enemy to not only get behind enemy lines but to multiply like flies... They have to deal with the fast growing ever increasing Muslim problem at home and in every country that they have adopted...all other religions come and live happily all except Islam,,
Posted by Gaye5 at 02:41 AM : Feb 22, 2007

[tuckerndfw]

I'm sure Russia is really concerned about her comments.

She is as useless as everyone else in the Bush administration.

[lars008-2009]

RIDICULOUSLY BACKWARD BARBARIC SCUM!!!
HOW MUSLIMS TREAT MODERATES
http://masada2000.org/kill-collaborator.mpeg

RUSSIAN PRISONER OF WAR
http://www.dafka.org/ContentFiles/videos/m-mpg.asx

HOW MUSLIMS TREAT RUSSIAN CIVILIANS
http://masada2000.org/Execution%20-Russian.asf

HOW MUSLIMS TREAT ORIENTALS
http://masada2000.org/shosei-koda-beheading-video.wmv

HOW MUSLIMS TREAT EUROPEANS
http://www.abrahamic-faith.com/audio/eugene-armstrong-beheading-video.wmv

HOW MUSLIMS TREAT YOUNG GIRLS
Search Three Indonesian Girls Beheaded
http://www.ogrish.com/archives/three_indonesian_girls_beheaded_images_Oct_30_200 5.html

How Muslims Treat Farm Animals
http://muzzybeastiality.org
http://masada2000.org/impalement.asx
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.241172591&par=0
http://www.faithfreedom.org/Gallery/8.htm

Iran to Stone 13 Year Old Incest Victim
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/008354.html
http://www.wfafi.org/wfafistatement12.htm
http://www.zhilaa.com/english.htm
VIDEO!!!!
http://www.apostatesofislam.com/media/stoning.htm
http://www.apostatesofislam.com/

[lars008-2009]

talk about the worst secretary of state....

mad aldim.....

Always knew demonic-rats were against free speech%u2026%u2026.lol

YouTube blocked video mocking Clinton administration
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52405

A drudge video link
Limits imposed on access to clip critical of Albright-run North Korea policy
http://drudgereport.com/flashma.htm

YOU HAVE BEEN ZUCKERED LIBSCUM...LOL

EXCLUSIVE: 'SCARY MOVIE' DIRECTOR MAKES CAMPAIGN AD; MOCKS DEMOCRATS...
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashma.htm
The David Zucker Albright Ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h3GPc_yMCE

[bellal-2009]

The thing I like about Secty. Rice is that you just know she can play hard ball. She doesn't have to posture or pose she's the real deal.