Mr Obama 'did not make any promises concerning the anti-missile shield', a spokesman for the Polish president said
Posted on 11/10/2008 6:33:27 PM PST by bruinbirdman
The construction of a US missile shield in Europe has been thrown into doubt after Poland said that President-Elect Barack Obama had failed to commit himself to the project.
Mr Obama 'did not make any promises concerning the anti-missile shield', a spokesman for the Polish president said
Officials in Warsaw said that after a conversation between President Lech Kaczynski and Mr Obama, they believe that the chances of the controversial project going ahead now stood at no more than "over 50 per cent".
Radek Sikorski, the foreign minister, also conceded that the worsening state of the American economy might force the president elect to ditch, or at least delay the programme, in favour of domestic priorities.
Poland and the US committed themselves to the project on paper in August in the wake of Russia's military intervention in Georgia. A cornerstone of the of the defence strategy of President George W. Bush and designed to protect the West from attack by "rogue states" such as Iran, the shield would see Poland host ten interceptor missiles and the Czech Republic host the radar component of a system.
Any delay would delight a resurgent Russia, which has described the plan as an affront to its national security and has threatened to place missiles near Poland in retaliation.
A statement from the spokesman for Lech Kaczynski, the Polish president, said that Mr Obama "did not make any promises concerning the anti-missile shield" in a conversation the two men had last Friday, despite claims to the contrary published on the Polish leader's website.
Denis McDonough, a foreign policy adviser to Mr Obama, said that during the phone call Mr Obama had reiterated his long-standing position supporting the deployment of the missile shield but only when the "technology is proved to
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Which is exactly what this piece of "citizen of the world" would want.
I surely hope the survivors round up all those opposed to the shield and dump them on ground zero when it happens.
Bye-bye, Poland. It was nice knowing you.
Asked for comment....ZEROBama stands and approaches the press....30 minutes pass whilst the Teleprompter is set up and programmed. Ahem!!! ZeroBama says....
...and so it begins...
Just like Europe during world war 2, Poland is on their o0wn again. Obama is another Nelville Chamberlain
Manchurian presidenski.
Nothing surprises me anymore. The Europeans are on their own. Figure out, morons.
I don’t feel much sympathy for the EU. They are going to get exactly what they’ve been asking for for decades. But Poland was dealing with us in good faith.
So much for that.
And so much for the Baltic States, Georgia, and Ukraine.
Poor Poland. They are always the canary in the coal mine.
Wake up Europe...you wanted this guy we didn’t.
Come to think of it with Hussein bankrupting the coal industry ,union coal miners in OH, PA, VA, et al will be the canaries in the coal mine. How ironic.
Obamanation wants to cut the military by 25%. Now that Russia is rebuilding theirs. Bad planning. What kind of message does that send to Russia? Well, if I were Putin, who is really in charge there, I would get ready to use tactical nukes on selected targets on the US, knowing that Obamanation will not retaliate. He would eliminate the US power forever
hope the poles are glad they held out during negotiations for a better deal
Yes....and woe unto those who are still around to see the end....
Tell the Russians we’ll kill the missile shield if they kill the Iranian reactor.
Episode two: Return of the “Waffler”,(AKA Master of the vague but nuanced).
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