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.
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One can only imagine how socialists and anarchists would react now if a nuke destroyed Berlin.
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
I don’t suppose she wants to chip in to pay for it?
“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.”
They would blame it on America.
ahh...Gazprom will make them pay.
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.
Yes, very gracious. You pay for and build a missle shield that will protect us, and I will not oppose it.
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.
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that’s why i posted the link.
putin’s a crafty bastard, an autocrat of the byzantine mode.
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