Condi making new friends ....

In a move that really doesn't surprise me anymore, Condi and the Bush administration are once again trashing diplomacy in preference of the big stick.

Rice Shows Teeth in Chilly Russia Trip

That chilly doesn't refer to the weather.

During a visit that sent a chill through relations Rice declared that Putin had too much power and she spoke out over the absence of independent television channels.

"Rice showed her teeth during talks in Moscow," read a caption in a Russian daily newspaper Thursday, beneath a photograph of a beaming Rice meeting President Vladimir Putin.

With plain speaking that left Russia's establishment aghast, she warned Wednesday that Washington was watching closely the fraud trial of oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

I guess pooty poot isn't so happy wappy anymore. Bush with his second grade team of pretend diplomats score another foul ball .... threatening Russia .... real smooth.

IA