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Keep missile shield out of Poland, Czech Republic, Obama warned
ABC News (Australia) ^

Posted on 11/24/2008 9:50:08 PM PST by Chet 99

Keep missile shield out of Poland, Czech Republic, Obama warned

By Moscow correspondent Scott Bevan

Posted 9 hours 26 minutes ago

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has warned the President-elect Barack Obama that Moscow will respond if he pushes on with plans for a missile defence system in Europe.

Speaking at a human rights law conference in St Petersburg, Mr Putin has said the US plan for the missile defence shield is aimed at Russia's strategic potential.

Russia can only give the project an adequate response, the Prime Minister added.

Mr Putin has urged Mr Obama to drop the plan to place facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, saying if there are no shield sites in those countries, then the question of Russia's response would also be dropped.

Mr Obama is yet to confirm whether he will continue with the plan once he becomes the US President in January.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho2008; coldwar2; easterneurope; missileshield; obama; obamatransitionfile; putin; russia; russianthreat; sovietunion
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1 posted on 11/24/2008 9:50:08 PM PST by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99

Obama will be a wet noodle.


2 posted on 11/24/2008 9:51:21 PM PST by bergmeid
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To: Chet 99

Will you call or fold, Mr. Obama?


3 posted on 11/24/2008 9:51:58 PM PST by Nachoman (Think of life as an adventure you don't survive.)
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To: Chet 99

“Yassuh, Massah Putin”.


4 posted on 11/24/2008 9:52:20 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Chet 99
"Vladimir Putin has warned the President-elect Barack Obama that Moscow will respond if he pushes on with plans for a missile defence system in Europe."

Putin should not be foaming at the mouth. Obama has promised cut back on defense spending. God help us all.( I mean Americans not Putin. He can drop dead.)

Bart.

5 posted on 11/24/2008 10:00:30 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Chet 99

“uuuhhhh....aaaahhhhh.....CHANGE!....HOPE!....”


6 posted on 11/24/2008 10:06:10 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Chet 99

Obama: Yes sir, Mister Prime Minister.


7 posted on 11/24/2008 10:07:36 PM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: beethovenfan

HA! I said it without the ebonic accent, but I sure thought it in it.


8 posted on 11/24/2008 10:09:04 PM PST by autumnraine (Churchill: " we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall never surrender")
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To: Chet 99

There is only one reason to put a “missile shield” in Eastern Europe and that is to purposely restart the “Cold War”. Anyone who supports such a project is as big an idiot as anyone who voted for the Obamination. The Russians are PARANOID, even if we have the best of intentions they will view it as a threat to them, and the idiots who came up with the plan KNOW IT. “Ike’s” Military-Industrial complex is alive and well and wants to sell expensive missile systems and they can’t do much of it if us and the Russians are all cozy.


9 posted on 11/24/2008 10:13:06 PM PST by flash2368 (Scary Times)
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To: Nachoman

I was waiting for this to happen, he will fold.

Then the President of Iran will be foaming at the mouth for his shot at Obama.


10 posted on 11/24/2008 10:20:29 PM PST by Islaminaction
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To: flash2368

What about blocking Iranian missiles?


11 posted on 11/24/2008 10:21:42 PM PST by Islaminaction
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To: flash2368
Let me try to understand you. In the first place the US is not placing the missile defense system in Poland, Poland is buying the missile defense system from us. Puten is an ass if he thinks that Poland would attack them. Russia has one hell of a nerve making any kind of noise since they have been selling war making materials and technology to Iran and a host of communists Countries all over the world. What you are really saying is America does not have the right to sell its military systems to anyone in the world. To hell with Russia.
12 posted on 11/24/2008 10:35:09 PM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Chet 99

He will fold and bow down to every white leader.


13 posted on 11/24/2008 10:37:37 PM PST by NoLibZone (Obams success proves that Ayers type violence is respected by the left. Let's do likewise.)
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To: Chet 99

The funny thing is Obama has publicly stated he doesn’t want the missile shield. Putin’s chest beating puts Obama in a pickle since he will now look weak if he cancels the deployment, but he actually needs to cancel it to please his base.


14 posted on 11/24/2008 10:37:55 PM PST by SeeSharp
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To: flash2368
"The Russians are PARANOID, even if we have the best of intentions they will view it as a threat to them.

If not I'm mistaken that is the point.

15 posted on 11/24/2008 10:40:02 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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To: Logical me

I did a little checking. We are placing our missiles in Poland, they are not “buying” them from us. Second we are giving Poland money to upgrade their military. It is a STUPID plan from the standpoint of Russian/US relations. We could have had a really good relationship with Russia had we used our head after the breakup of the USSR but that was not in the interest of the military-industrial guys. The kind of attitude I see in the responses is exactly the kind that will someday get us all toasted.


16 posted on 11/24/2008 11:07:33 PM PST by flash2368 (Scary Times)
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To: flash2368
but that was not in the interest of the military-industrial guys.

"military industrial" ?? You might feel more at home at DU.

17 posted on 11/24/2008 11:48:20 PM PST by libh8er
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To: flash2368

Were you, by chance, a Paul supporter? You are making nearly the identical argument that the leftists in Europe and here in the USA made against the Reagan policies. Restart the Cold War? Surely you are not that naive. Looking at the actions of Russia in the past decade I would say that it was “restarted”, if ever completely stopped, some time ago.


18 posted on 11/25/2008 12:37:56 AM PST by WildcatClan (AND THOSE DOESNT BRAIN JUST GO. ---- Cecile Noe)
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To: flash2368
"interest of the military-industrial guys"

Stop drinking the grape Flavor Aid.

America's allies have to be strong in the face of an aggressor. Their missile defenses and national militaries must be capable of withstanding any threat from the Communists that are running Russia.

"We could have had a really good relationship with Russia"

That will NEVER happen because the Russians see fit to conquer the planet regardless of the current strength of their military or nuclear arsenal.

You are a naive fool to think these ruthless bastards would ever hold hands and sing Kumbaya with America or her Allies.

It will never happen because their government has a history of pursuing only evil things.

19 posted on 11/25/2008 2:05:43 AM PST by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: bergmeid; Chet 99

What is the over/under for the number of days in a Hussein administration for the commies to get their way on this?


20 posted on 11/25/2008 2:18:42 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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