Comments on: Obama Changes Course on Missile Shield

By: FreeSpeech09

FreeSpeech09 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:46:16 +0000

On behalf of the 78% of my Czech countryman, I would like to express my thanks and gratitude to our President Obama and his administration on the great courage and common sense.

Our President Barack Obama just scrapped one of the craziest, the most dangerous and illegal agreements in our modern history, the “Missile Shield Agreement”.

This agreement was signed last summer by senile warmongers in Bush’s administration and corrupted Czech politicians, who betrayed Czech people in the fashion reminiscent to a “Great Munich Betrayal of Czechoslovakia” in the year1938.

Once again, the Czech people, against their will, without democratic vote, by dictatorial blackmail, would be sacrificed in the superpower games. This time the stakes were much higher, because the Czech capital city of Prague would be exposed to the first nuclear strike.

All Americans and all peace loving people in the world should applaud to this truly brave decision, and be proud that there is a new world leader, President Barack Obama, with just plain common sense.

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Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:56:05 +0000

[...] to be our focus and basis of the programme” announced yesterday. Jason Ditz writes at AntiWar.com: “The new plan will be to deploy smaller missile defense batteries off-shore in the [...]

By: zouppie

zouppie — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:24:24 +0000

So what did the USA gain from this? Did Russia throw Iran under the bus? I assume the sale of the Russian S-300 Air Defense System to Iran is no longer an option.

By: retiretheempire

retiretheempire — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:00:13 +0000

indeed, Russians would not be fooled by some cheap ploy to conceal a new stealthier version of a ballistic missile defense SYSTEM, system being the optimum word. Without a frontline radar "listening" post like the one they were planning to put into Czech Republic, detection of a nuclear launch in Russia won't happen quick enough to interecept a missile during launch phase. And that was the whole purpose of this proposed US system, to intercept on LAUNCH, not to specifically protect european territory from incoming missiles, as do Patriot missiles or the Patriot knock-off Arrow system of Israel. Amazingly, this seems to be a genuine reversal of Bushonian policy. The relevant defense contractors involved must be pretty pissed with Obama

By: Peacegeek

Peacegeek — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:04:21 +0000

guns4everyone is ignoring the reaction of the Russians who are jubilant. Bush's plan was merely disguised as a deterrent targeted at Iran when the actual target was Russia. SDI bases in Eastern Europe were part and parcel of the post-Cold War iteration of McCarthyism that still seeks to encircle Russia via the expansion of NATO. In The Times of India, Medvedev is quoted: "We value responsible approach of the US President for implementing our agreements. I am ready for continuation of the dialogue. Washington's declaration on Thursday shows that there are good conditions on the ground for joint anti-missile action." When Medvedev is praising Obama, it is time to give him credit for repudiating Bush's mania.

By: guns4everyone

guns4everyone — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:03:20 +0000

He is replacing the apparently unworkable 2007 system with what is
being presented as a "comprehensive, proven, and cost-effective" system,
i.e. the almost ready for prime time American-funded Israeli Arrow
system, which will be deployed in Turkey, Azerbadjan and perhaps
Georgia. In the meantime Poland will still get enhanced Patriot missles
which are being sold as ABM-capable as well. It's all still the same,
but even better version of the encirclement and first-strike threat
against Russia (and will be answered to as such) but now more neatly
tucked away from eyes of those spoil-sport Europeans.