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U.S. to relocate missile defense system
Space War ^ | 8/27/2009 | UPI

Posted on 08/27/2009 8:25:27 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld

Washington may relocate the controversial missile defense system planned for Eastern Europe to the Balkans, Turkey or Israel, a Polish newspaper reports. The U.S. plan included 10 long-range interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic. That plan will almost certainly be scrapped, Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reports. Washington is now looking for alternative locations including in the Balkans, Israel and Turkey, the daily says, citing U.S. administration officials and lobbyists based in Washington.

"The signals that the generals in the Pentagon are sending are absolutely clear: as far as missile defense is concerned, the current U.S. administration is searching for other solutions than the previously bases in Poland and the Czech Republic," Riki Ellison, chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, a Washington-based lobby group, told the newspaper.

The system, meant to be ready by 2013, was aimed at defending the United States and its allies in Europe against nuclear attacks from rogue states such as Iran.

The Kremlin, however, says the planned location in Eastern Europe is compromising Russia's national security and a further sign of NATO's eastward expansion. Russia believes the alliance has turned from a security coalition into a geopolitical tool used by the United States to increase its political and economic clout in Eastern Europe.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: aerospace; balkans; bho44; easterneurope; europe; gbi; israel; missile; missiledefense; nationalsecurity; nato; nmd; pentagon; turkey
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Personally, I would like it in Turkey at Incirlik Air Base.
1 posted on 08/27/2009 8:25:27 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: sonofstrangelove
The way BO has been dising Israel you can count them out.
2 posted on 08/27/2009 8:29:18 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Warning: Some words may be misspelled/ You will get over it / Klingon is my 1st language)
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To: sonofstrangelove

They’ll locate a US missile defense system for Europe in Israel...um...ok....

Will they put the US border patrol in **Greenland**...?

This is getting COMPLICATED.


3 posted on 08/27/2009 8:29:47 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: guitarplayer1953

Dunno, if it makes Russia more likely to want to nuke them, Obama might warm to the idea.


4 posted on 08/27/2009 8:33:15 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
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To: sonofstrangelove
Doesn't a move much further south, closer to the likely launch sites require a MUCH FASTER response time to make the intercept? Will Barry even have time for the 3 AM phone call?

Is Poland another ally being dismissed by this strange cabal we have infesting our foreign policy? What is the strategerie?

5 posted on 08/27/2009 8:36:46 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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To: sonofstrangelove; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


6 posted on 08/27/2009 8:38:31 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: sonofstrangelove
The exact location will be published in the NY Times.
7 posted on 08/27/2009 8:39:55 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: sonofstrangelove

Just take a globe and run a string from Iran to Europe and the USA and you will see why Poland and the Czech Republic were chosen.

You will also see why these sites are no threat to Russia, which has its ICBMs along the TransSiberian railroad which sends them across Siberia and the Arctic nowhere near the Polish/Czeck sites.


8 posted on 08/27/2009 8:41:31 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: sonofstrangelove

Since BHO seems to admire the legacy of FDR, it is fitting that he would sell Poland down the river again. We were cowards at Yalta and buckled to Stalin and now BHO is going to kiss Putin’s A@@ and go back on an agreement that poses no real threat to Russia. If Russia wanted to initiate a nuclear attack on the West with its many ICBM’s or bombers, will 10 ABM sites really matter that much?


9 posted on 08/27/2009 8:45:56 PM PDT by Historix
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To: sonofstrangelove
"Balkans or Turkey"

Putting a missle defense to protect against an Islamic bomb in an Islamic country does NOT make sense.

10 posted on 08/27/2009 8:47:20 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Historix

Yes, especially after Poland went out on a limb for us over this, and now BO is giving the Russians exactly what they were demanding. Shameful. Shameful. Shameful.


11 posted on 08/27/2009 8:51:41 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I don't think BiBi will though. He'll tell BO to stick it where the sun don't shine or knock off this crap about giving up Jerusalem.
12 posted on 08/27/2009 8:58:01 PM PDT by guitarplayer1953 (Warning: Some words may be misspelled/ You will get over it / Klingon is my 1st language)
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To: NonValueAdded

The system would be way too small to cope with a barrage from Russia, and Russia knows that. This hurts their pride, not their security.


13 posted on 08/27/2009 9:01:57 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Barack Obama is a political suicide bomber and the Rats are political arsonists.)
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To: sonofstrangelove
However, by placing a strategic asset in Israel it would send a message to the world that the US will do whatever it takes to defend that asset.

That's why the ABM stuff won't go there under an Obama admin.

14 posted on 08/27/2009 9:20:17 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: sonofstrangelove

Besides throwing Ukraine and Georgia under the bus, Obama has now thrown Poland and the Czech Republic under it too.


15 posted on 08/27/2009 10:44:55 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: Thunder90

Add Honduras....


16 posted on 08/27/2009 10:53:13 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: DannyTN

The Turks have been our allies since the beginning of the Cold War. The have provided the United States with an air base(which contains B-61 nuclear weapons and at one time Jupiter IRBM missiles) within striking distance of Moscow and other important Russian ICBM bases. This is the perfect spot because it covers both Europe and it is able to strike missiles from Russia.


17 posted on 08/27/2009 11:38:44 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: DannyTN

The actual deployment locations of the Jupiter IRBM missiles within Turkey are still secret more than 40 years later.The central deployment base was Cigli Air Force Base.


18 posted on 08/27/2009 11:45:57 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: DannyTN

They have a Jupiter missile on display at Wright-Patterson AFB


19 posted on 08/28/2009 12:03:20 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld ("We will either find a way, or make one."Hannibal/Carthaginian Military Commander)
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To: sonofstrangelove

Looks like the trend of screwing over our friends and caving in to our enemies is continuing full speed.


20 posted on 08/28/2009 12:37:03 AM PDT by kamikaze2000
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