Gates, European leaders rap Medvedev for bellicose talk

 Russia's threat to station missiles along its border with Europe drew strong criticism from senior United States and European officials Thursday, as they prepared to confront President Dmitri Medvedev on the matter before heading together to Washington to discuss reforming the world financial system.
In an interview, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, strongly criticized Moscow's threat to put missiles in the enclave of Kaliningrad, which shares a border with Poland and Lithuania, and he warned that "cold war rhetoric" over the issue was "stupid."
"We don't need a cold war," he said in an interview. "We need cool heads."

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