Pot comments on Kettle

NEW DELHI (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) launched a blistering attack on the United States, accusing it of running a "dictatorship" over global affairs and able only to worsen humanity's problems.

He warned in a speech delivered in New Delhi Friday night against attempts to rebuild the modern system of international relations along the lines of a uni-polar world. ...

"Dictatorship, the more so dictatorship in international affairs, has never solved and could not have solved such problems in the history of mankind," Putin said.

"Only a balanced democratic system of international law," could help ease those problems, he said. ...

"Even when dictatorship is beautifully gift-wrapped in pseudo-democratic phraseology it has never been capable of resolving such systemic problems. On the contrary, it can only make them worse," Putin said.

Bwah-ha-ha! Good one, Vlad! "Dictatorship beautifully gift-wrapped in pseudo-democratic phraseology!" Brilliant! I guess you'd be an authority on that, wouldn't you? Hee-hee-hee. I didn't realize you could be such a cut-up. I gotta say, this routine's a LOT funnier than that one about endorsing Bush during the campaign. Did you get a new writer?