Rice Says U.S, Russia on 'Same Page' Regarding Iraq

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, May 16, 2004; 3:00 PM


MOSCOW, May 16 -- The United States and Russia are now "on the same page" regarding the future of Iraq despite past disputes, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Sunday after consultations on a new U.N. resolution guiding the transfer of limited authority to an Iraqi government this summer.



Rice met with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend to discuss the next stage in the Iraqi occupation and solicit cooperation in fashioning a new Security Council resolution conferring legitimacy on an interim government after June 30. Although she proposed no specific language and won no public commitments, she pronounced herself satisfied with the talks.

"We and Russia are, so to speak, on the same page now about how we move forward," Rice said in an interview with the "Namedni" news program on Russia's NTV television that aired Sunday night. "No matter how we got into Iraq and disagreements we might have had in the past, everybody agrees that the most important thing now is to have a stable Iraq, to move forward with a resolution at the United Nations Security Council."

During the discussions, Russian officials pushed a proposal to convene a special international conference on Iraq as a means to infuse greater credibility on the transfer of political power in Baghdad. Rice agreed to consider it without committing to it, U.S. officials said afterward.

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more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31145-2004May16.html

Bush "looked into his eyes" and "saw his soul" or some such nonsense. I pray that Cheney and Rice are not as stupid.

ed for spell

Jeezus effing Christ. Now they're heroes again (if they'll boost shrub's numbers). What a pantload.

How many times have members of this administration made similar statements about how other countries view the situation in Iraq?

BAH! :puke:

it would endanger national security.

and besides, Cheney would have to help Bush with the big words. like "board of directors" "stock options" "deferred compensation" etc.