Putin Tells Bush, World Leaders To Back Off

The Huffington Post:

President Bush and other Western leaders have sharply criticized Russia's military response as disproportionate and say Russia appears to want the Georgian government overthrown. They have also complained that Russian warplanes -- buzzing over Georgia since Friday -- have bombed Georgian oil sites and factories far from the conflict zone.

The world's seven largest economic powers urged Russia to accept an immediate cease-fire Monday and agree to international mediation. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her colleagues from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations spoke by telephone and pledged their support for a negotiated solution to the conflict.

"I've expressed my grave concern about the disproportionate response of Russia and that we strongly condemn the bombing outside of South Ossetia," Bush told NBC Sports.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin criticized the United States for viewing Georgia as the victim, instead of the aggressor, and for airlifting Georgian troops back home from Iraq on Sunday.

Read the whole story: The Huffington Post

Comments

[garrylee]

Well, it seem as though the cowboy positon of GB and JM did not work but the true test of diplomacy by Barack's friend Sarkosy.

[gevan]

Nothing like a megalomaniac with an inferiority complex in charge of a nuclear power is there? I was talking about Putin here, not Bush this time.