George Bush isn't in charge, says Vladimir Putin

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h/t: sott.net
Richard Beeston
The Times
My kinda guy… but the people around him are rubbish, says Putin
In a thinly veiled dig at George Bush, Vladimir Putin today
suggested that the US President was not in charge of American affairs,
saying that it was "the court that makes the king".

Amid heightened tensions with the US in the wake of the war in Georgia,
the Russian Prime Minister insisted that the US leader was a man of
honour and integrity, but blamed members of the administration for the
sharp deterioration of relations with Russia.
"I still hope we will maintain good relations, but it is the court
that makes the king," he told a group of foreign journalists in an
interview at his residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
He nonetheless spoke fondly of his relationship with Mr Bush,
saying, only half-jokingly: "I treat President Bush better than some
Americans would".
At times Mr Putin displayed genuine anger, particularly when
discussing the deployment of US navy warships just off the Russian
Black Sea coast. Much of his criticism was aimed directly at the Bush
administration which he accused of training and army the Georgian
military and encouraging its leadership to launch last month's assault
on the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
"Should we have wiped the bloody snot off our face and bowed our
head? Should we have waved our penknives?" he said in response to the
mobilisation of Georgian tanks and troops.