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Merkel Open to Missile Shield Due to Iran Threat
Reuters ^ | July 18, 2007

Posted on 07/18/2007 7:49:09 PM PDT by george76

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she does not oppose U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield to counter any future attack by Iran.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday she does not oppose U.S. plans for an anti-missile shield to counter any future attack by Iran, a project that has strained ties between Russia and the West.

"I am not against Mr Putin but also not against the idea," Merkel said at a semi-annual news conference in response to a question about the U.S. shield plan. "I have always said that one cannot say there's no threat coming from Iran."

While her Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung has explicitly backed the U.S. plan, Merkel has been cautious when speaking about it and had not previously linked the shield to what the West perceives as the future threat of a nuclear-armed Iran.

Washington wants to place 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar facility in the Czech Republic to protect the United States and its allies against potential missile attacks from what it calls "rogue states" such as Iran and North Korea.

(Excerpt) Read more at javno.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; czechrepublic; germanchancellor; germany; iran; merkel; missiledefense; poland
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1 posted on 07/18/2007 7:49:12 PM PDT by george76
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To: M. Espinola; lizol; Jedi Master Pikachu
Polish President Lech Kaczynski said this week in Washington that the U.S. anti-missile shield would be built in Poland despite Russian objections...

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2 posted on 07/18/2007 7:51:56 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
She’ll be driven from office for this.Germany’s “anarchists” and other fellow travelers will see to that.
3 posted on 07/18/2007 7:56:44 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
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To: george76

One can only imagine how socialists and anarchists would react now if a nuke destroyed Berlin.


4 posted on 07/18/2007 8:03:42 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: george76

For Germany, yes, but let’s not get in any hurry to do that for the rest of western Europe.

Europeans still view Jews with suspicion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1868175/posts


5 posted on 07/18/2007 8:21:12 PM PDT by familyop (former cbt. engr. (cbt.))
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To: george76

I don’t suppose she wants to chip in to pay for it?


6 posted on 07/18/2007 8:27:03 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: george76

“I am not against Mr Putin but also not against the idea,” Merkel said ...

meanwhile:

http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/GasOpec.htm

“...buyers from Germany , France , Italy and Austria have recently renewed their gas supply deals with Gazprom.”


7 posted on 07/18/2007 8:32:17 PM PDT by ken21 ( b 4 fred.)
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To: plain talk

They would blame it on America.


8 posted on 07/18/2007 8:51:16 PM PDT by Wiggins
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; KlueLass; ...
Ping!
9 posted on 07/18/2007 8:56:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Profile updated Wednesday, July 18, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: ken21

ahh...Gazprom will make them pay.


10 posted on 07/18/2007 9:56:52 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Guess that back rub paid off. Frau Merkel is a physicist by trade. Guess facts matter to her. The thought of a few hundred thousand Germans being killed by an Iranian rocket must keep her up at night. Screw Putin.


11 posted on 07/19/2007 6:44:50 AM PDT by Dilbert56 (Harry Reid, D-Nev.: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war.")
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To: americanophile

Yes, very gracious. You pay for and build a missle shield that will protect us, and I will not oppose it.


12 posted on 07/19/2007 8:01:54 AM PDT by Steelerfan
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To: Steelerfan

Raytheon has alreadt converted the Standard Missile 3 into an interceptor and it works like a PAC-3. All they need is to get contracts for parts.


13 posted on 07/19/2007 8:52:05 AM PDT by BobS
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To: george76

si.

that’s why i posted the link.

putin’s a crafty bastard, an autocrat of the byzantine mode.


14 posted on 07/19/2007 9:04:19 AM PDT by ken21 ( b 4 fred.)
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