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White House to Scrap Bush’s Approach to Missile Shield
Slimes ^ | 9/17/2009 | PETER BAKER and NICHOLAS KULISH

Posted on 09/17/2009 7:09:46 AM PDT by balls

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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Disgusting but true.


21 posted on 09/17/2009 7:32:53 AM PDT by batter (Wolverines!)
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To: balls

Right now I am watching SecDef Gates defend this atrocious decision.

Sickening.


22 posted on 09/17/2009 7:35:07 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: balls
Does anyone have an idea just how defenseless a POTUS can leave the nation before it's considered treason?

I know, silly question. There's no such THING as treason any more.

23 posted on 09/17/2009 7:35:29 AM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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To: Huck

Yes we should have one here, and there is technology avaialable. Since Reagan, congress has never had the will to do it.


24 posted on 09/17/2009 7:35:45 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (All Hail the Community Organizer -in -Chief)
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To: Huck

It isnt defending Czechs and Poles. Get out a globe, look at Iran,,,trace your way to New York and DC by the direct route. A missile in its early boost phase passes over Czech republic, where the radar plots it. Then missiles are fired from poland for the intercept.

This never had anything to do with Russia. It was a mere handful of missiles, like 10 or so. Russia could easily overwhelm that. Also any russian launch tracks wouldnt pass over europe, they would fly over the polar region.

Russia knew the missiles had nothing to do with them, and had an ulterior diplomatic motive. Obama the amateur got owned by them. This was a minor thing he could easily have won.


25 posted on 09/17/2009 7:36:01 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: balls; All

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague”.”

~~Marcus Tullius Cicero


26 posted on 09/17/2009 7:36:15 AM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Obama's Blackberry, who's on the other end?)
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To: ecomcon

And his friends in Iran. Meanwhile, he is aking a hard line in Honduras, and will not meet the Dalai Lama.

What a punk, what a tool.


27 posted on 09/17/2009 7:37:43 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: PghBaldy
No questions... he couldn’t leave the briefing faster if he was strapped on an Iranian missile.

Of course no questions: he DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT EXCEPT THAT HE WANTS TO SURRENDER TO RUSSIA'S DEMANDS.

So he sloughs off to golf some more and has his SecDef do the heavy lifting.

He is nothing more than a script reading ignoramus.

WHY Gates has continued to stay on and defend this dolt is amazing.

28 posted on 09/17/2009 7:37:57 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: DesertRhino

Yeah, apparantly it’s all about IRAN. And so they are moving the system closer to IRAN. Doesn’t really sound like caving in to me. If it’s a better way to defend against Iran, I’m for it. If it makes Russia happy too, so what?


29 posted on 09/17/2009 7:38:00 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

bttt. good quote.


30 posted on 09/17/2009 7:39:17 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: swain_forkbeard
That system worked pretty well at Crecy and Agincourt.

Well that's just great, we'll be well prepared for the next horde of French knights.

31 posted on 09/17/2009 7:39:27 AM PDT by Liberty1970 (Democrats are not in control. God is. And Thank God for that!)
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To: balls

Three more years of this bullshit and we’ll be reduced to throwing strongly worded letters of protest at our enemies.

Oh, wait - we’re doing that now.


32 posted on 09/17/2009 7:40:10 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Welcome to the Revolution.)
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To: Huck

Moving it where? Aren’t our Eastern European allies worth defending?


33 posted on 09/17/2009 7:40:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Huck
We are not defending "them" we are defending the West. They are on the eastern frontier of the west, hence it makes sense to put a missile shield there.

You wouldn't think you'd have to explain this kind of thing to a sentient being.

34 posted on 09/17/2009 7:40:46 AM PDT by Publius Maximus (God, please let 2010 and 2012 come quickly...)
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To: DesertRhino

I really have mixed emotions on this. I appreciate your comments however we have navsats around the globe and intercept aircraft and missile’s for any long ride here.

I think europe should pay for its own defense - they have not and want the american taxpayer to pay for them.

There is nothing stoping either country from buying and implementing their own defense.


35 posted on 09/17/2009 7:41:26 AM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: Thermalseeker
Check the UK newspapers on Drudge page for their take. I think soon Europe will be missing Bush.
I am starting to experience JFK deja vu with the actions of the Son of OBama:
JFK=Berlin Wall....BHO=no support for Iranians
JFK=Cuba Accommodation and removal of missiles from Turkey...BHO=Missile Removal from Eastern Europe and Accommodation with Chavez
JFK=Abandonment of allies at Bay of Pigs....BHO=Abandonment of Honduras republic JKF=Increase troop commitment to Vietnam....BHO=increased troop commitment to Afghanistan
36 posted on 09/17/2009 7:42:14 AM PDT by BilLies
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To: DesertRhino
I simply can't comprehend this decision. The media reports I've seen so far don't even try to provide a reasonable rationale. Russia does not have a legitimate objection to 10 interceptor missiles when it has an arsenal of thousands of nukes. This system was designed for isolated rogue launches such as from Iran, or a terrorist effort or something similar. So what the heck is really going on???

Are that many people in the leadership of America really so much in favor of bald-faced treason? One of the few legitimate functions of government is to protect its people; here we have an administration that is usurping all kinds of roles government is NOT supposed to have, while doing what it can to undermine its legitimate roles. We need regime change, urgently.

37 posted on 09/17/2009 7:43:46 AM PDT by Liberty1970 (Democrats are not in control. God is. And Thank God for that!)
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To: angkor
Here's a quote

17.09.2009 11:42 What many are saying here in Poland is that this is a crap day to announce such a thing – the day of the Soviet invasion of Poland. Insensitive? Oh, yeah! Good one Washington! dunderhead
38 posted on 09/17/2009 7:43:55 AM PDT by cmsgop (Another proud graduate of the Larry Storch school of posting)
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To: DesertRhino
Russia knew the missiles had nothing to do with them....

Obamalamadingdong chose the 70th anniversary, to the day, of the Soviet Union's invasion of Poland to make this announcement. Accident? Chance? This plan has been in the works for months. He could have chosen any day this week, but he chooses September 17th to make this announcement. If Russia never had anything to do with it isn't the timing kind of odd?

39 posted on 09/17/2009 7:44:17 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Stop the insanity - Flush Congress!)
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To: balls

If America’s word is only good until the next election, maybe monarchy wasn’t such a bad idea after all.


40 posted on 09/17/2009 7:44:35 AM PDT by nina0113 (Sign seen at the rally: "Don't Tell Obama What Comes After Trillion".)
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