Posted on 03/15/2009 9:29:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
This is news that is nearly 12 hours old and still no word from the President.
” AP – MOSCOW – A Russian air force chief said Saturday that the country could base some strategic bombers in Cuba or on an island offered by Venezuela, the Interfax news agency reported, but a Kremlin official quickly said the military had been speaking only hypothetically.
The U.S. and Russia have been trying to reset their relationship, severely strained over U.S. plans to position missile defense elements in Poland and the Czech Republic and by Russia’s invasion of U.S. ally Georgia last year.
Russia has nothing to gain strategically from basing long-range craft within relatively short range of U.S. shores, independent military analyst Alexander Golts said, calling the military statement a retaliatory gesture aimed at hitting back after U.S. ships patrolled Black Sea waters near Georgia.
The chief of staff of Russia’s long range aviation, Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev, was quoted by Interfax as saying Saturday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had offered “a whole island with an airdrome, which we can use as a temporary base for strategic bombers.”
“If there is a corresponding political decision, then the use of the island … by the Russian Air Force is possible,” Zhikharev was quoted as saying.
Interfax reported he said earlier that Cuba has air bases with four or five runways long enough for the huge bombers and could be used to host the long-range planes.”
Of course this is totally unacceptable and the President should have already thrown down the gauntlet. This is clear violation of the Monroe Doctrine, and cannot be left unanswered. Instead he’s giving a Saturday weekly address on the dangers of bad spinach.
Don’t worry. Maybe our resolute Secretary of State will send another cute novelty gift.
Stupidity, resulting in incompetent administration and lack of self control coupled with weakness is a bad mix. As stress mounts the aforementioned type of individual who possesses great authority will tend to become vicious and lash out.
BHO’s a push-over. Our enemies and adversaries know this. China, Russia, Iran, AQ, et. al. will be coming at us with everything they can before the 2010 elections. Once the people wake up, the Dems will be out of power so fast it will make their heads spin.
More like a weak islamic Obambi prostitute that likes the idea of forcing down our throats the acceptance of Islam and radical Islam, the way it happened to “her”.
Odumbnuts probably has idea that Russia can even be a threat seeing as how they are socialist like him.
Obambi, she likes her Marxist teleprompters, and what is good for her must be good for us.
A freakozoid in power in action.
Meanwhile the brainwashed and impressionable youth continue their chants for him.
I have no where near the confidence in the American people that you have.
The real question, is how far will they push us, it's a horrible moment, in our history.
Obama and Co. know exactly what they are doing. They are following the communist plan.
Indeed they know. There is a reason why the terrorists have not attacked us again since 9/11 while President Bush was in the White House and kept us save. El Qaeda and Hezbolla are not dumb, like the rats think they are
The Obama doctrine: Pre-emptive surrender.
or was that an "OVERCHARGE" button...
what the Russians saw was a silly woman with a staff that is so incompetent that they couldn't even find a russian linguist, a white house staff that pays NO attention to details and a president that has such little grasp of information that he can't speak extemporaneously without a teleprompter.
What they see is not only moral weakness, but incompetence.
Why would Baraq consider this a threat?
It’s his dream come true........
I go back to the weatherman plan for America and the whole thing worries me a lot.
This must be the ‘hope’ and ‘change’ the masses were looking for!
For those of us who lived during the Cuban missile crisis, we knew John Kennedy and Obama is no John Kennedy
I fail to see the problem. Why would Obama respond to a fellow socialist or even Marxist showing support for the Obama administration by flying the flag nearby? /s/
For those of us who lived during the Cuban missile crisis, we knew John Kennedy and Obama is no John Kennedy
That’s not encouraging for those of us who know that Kennedy completely mismanaged that crisis and caved in the end to Soviet demands. If Obama can’t even achieve that low bar we are indeed in deep trouble.
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