A New Cold War?

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re: america is the titanic.

What is the logic behind the sinking of the titanic? Carelessness in use of modern day technology, combined with human arrogance.

Therefore, the world is a perpetual titanic...

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re: america is scared.

Vague mentality!

Are the actions of a leader indicative of the collective whole?

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re: bush administration and hypocrisy...

What a priviledge to be sitting around with a full belly, debating this bullsh*t!

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re: bush administration & 9.11.

It's really neato that everybody has an opinion about bush's reaction to 9.11

1) He was president for a short period of time (inexperienced)

2) 9.11 is the most monumental terrorist attack on U.S. soil (not including pearl harbor [war]).

3) In addition to the president: you have the department of defense & the CIA
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Yes, president bush allegedly was reading to school children (the future of the world) and did not jump up (even to call his own family).
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1) It's called COMPOSURE in times of TERROR! AKA: Keeping your cool.

2) If the damn dod & CIA needed his arse THAT SECOND, his arse would have been YANKED from the room

3) A school classroom doesn't sufficiently provide security for a country's leader in times of TERROR

Perhaps, it's too bad that we don't live in times of Hitler & Stalin...so some of you pukes could worry about yourself instead of the President's PR (albeit we know what your fate would be).

GROW UP!!!

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday blamed U.S. policy for inciting other countries to seek nuclear weapons to defend themselves from an "almost uncontained use of military force" -- a stinging attack that underscored growing tensions between Washington and Moscow.

"Unilateral, illegitimate actions have not solved a single problem, they have become a hotbed of further conflicts," Putin said at a security forum attracting senior officials from around the world. "One state, the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way."

In what the Russian leader's spokesman acknowledged was his harshest criticism of the United States, Putin attacked Bush's administration for stoking a new arms race by planning to deploy a missile defense system in eastern Europe and for backing a U.N. plan that would grant virtual independence to Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo.

Putin said it was "the almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations" that was forcing countries opposed to Washington to seek to build up nuclear arsenals. "It is a world of one master, one sovereign ... it has nothing to do with democracy," he said. "This is nourishing the wish of countries to get nuclear weapons."

"This is very dangerous, nobody feels secure anymore because nobody can hide behind international law," Putin told the gathering.

Putin did not mention the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, but he voiced concern about NATO's expansion plans as possible challenges to Russia.

"The process of NATO expansion has nothing to do with modernization of the alliance or with ensuring security in Europe," Putin said. "On the contrary, it is a serious factor provoking reduction of mutual trust."

On the missile defense system, Putin said: "I don't want to accuse anyone of being aggressive" but suggested it would seriously change the balance of power and could provoke an unspecified "asymmetric" response.

The Bush administration said it was "surprised and disappointed" by Putin's remarks. "His accusations are wrong," said Gordon Johndroe, Bush's national security spokesman.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who was also attending the conference, described Putin's remarks as "the most aggressive speech from a Russian leader since the end of the Cold War."

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates had little to say about the accusations, remarking only that Putin "was very candid."