Seems the following link I provided in the Russia, Rice and the Cold War thread in the Europe forum has expired.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080709/..._ca_st_pe/rice
I didn't know they expired.
Guess I'll have to provide the text heretofore.
I did supply an excerpt as follows:
Excerpt:
Rice dined privately with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, a Russian nemesis, a day after Russia warned that it might resort to military means to counter a U.S. plan to base anti-missile defenses in the Czech Republic. Rice called the Russian response sad but predictable.