Posted on 07/07/2009 4:18:00 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Barack Obama offers to scrap missile shield in return for help from Russia with Iran Tony Halpin in Moscow
President Obama put the Kremlin to the test yesterday by offering to scrap a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe if it helped to stop Iran building a nuclear bomb.
He used the second day of the Reset Summit in Moscow to urge a new era of partnership between Russia and the US in combating the spread of nuclear weapons to rogue states and terrorists.
“That is why we should be united in opposing North Korea’s efforts to become a nuclear power and preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon,” Mr Obama said.
The US plan to put a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic strained relations with Russia under President Bush. Moscow views the shield as a threat to its security, while Washington insists that it is to defend against a surprise attack from Iran. In a speech that was notably light on criticism of Russia, Mr Obama pressed Moscow to take more responsibility for stopping an Iranian bomb.
“I know Russia opposes the planned configuration for missile defence in Europe . . . I have made it clear that this system is directed at preventing a potential attack from Iran and has nothing to do with Russia,” he told an audience of students from the New Economic School in Moscow.
“I want us to work together on a missile defence architecture that makes us all safer. But if the threat from Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes is eliminated, the driving force for missile defence in Europe will be eliminated. That is in our mutual interest,” he said.
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So, if Russia decides to attack Poland, for example, no problem? Mr. President?
He couldn't be so stupid.
Idiot!
You F%%@ing IDIOT!
No, stupidity. He trial ballooned this one last month.
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Should have known SDI was on his hit list
America, you were pretty great while you lasted.
Putin’s house boy.
I think the Russians have to pretend to be cool to him because they love him so much.
Putin is playing Obama like a fiddle. Iran is a major concern in the world, but I am sure they played along with the Iranian leadership only to throw them under the bus later. Russia does not want a nuclear Iran. Russia wins !!
Not so sure I am going to be willing to pick up the pieces after the b0nehead and his ilk are removed.
America’s potus is a blithering idiot.
So it his TOTUS !!
It’s probably who can pay the higher price. Well why not?
We have plenty of money and we trust Russia.
They don’t want to take us over. No one wants to take us over.
That’s what a college kid told me back in the 80s. Stupid kid.
He just gave away Europe
Obama to Putin … “Mr. Putin, put that wall back up!” ;-)
I’m gonna disagree with the Idiot take on this one, although Zero is certainly that.
This is pure cowardice and appeasement.
What else can one expect from a morally ungrounded, thoroughly unaccomplished, affirmative-action, Ivy League lawyer?
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