Attacking Our Patriots

IBD Editorials ^ | August 28, 2008

[Kaslin]

Democrats: Joe Biden shares Barack Obama's lifelong commitment to keeping America unprotected against nuclear missile attack. Neither he nor Obama wants to protect Georgia — theirs or ours.

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What sealed the deal for Poland in allowing the deployment of U.S. ground-based interceptors (GBI) on its soil was the deployment of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles on its soil.

PAC-3 missiles are true anti-missile missiles, much more sophisticated than their predecessors that were pressed into action during Desert Storm.

Warsaw knows that PAC-3 missiles might have proven useful in Russia's invasion of Georgia and would be useful in its defense as well. Russia has threatened to station short-range SS-21 missiles and its longer range SS-26 cousin in Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave the size of Connecticut on Poland's northeastern border and in neighboring Belarus.

According to the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, Russia fired more than two dozen SS-21s, with a range from 43 to 75 miles depending on the variant, into the defenseless democracy of Georgia.

The Georgian government said two SS-26 missiles, with roughly twice the range, had targeted an oil pipeline crossing its territory.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Once soldiers ..and young,

They are still soldiers:

http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66978

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