Posted on 08/09/2006 1:11:49 PM PDT by lizol
Poland just as Czechs says it will host U.S. anti-missile site
Warsaw/Prague- The Polish Defence Ministry said that Warsaw still negotiates with the USA about a possible placement of a U.S. anti-missile site in Poland, while the Czech Foreign Minister said recently that it is almost sure that the USA will ask Prague to join its defence programme.
Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda made the statement on Czech Television on Sunday, but he did not specify the form of possible Czech participation in the anti-missile protection programme.
Various forms of participation include the stationing of a radar on Czech territory, or the building of a site with 10 missiles and manned by hundreds of soldiers.
The English-language weekly Prague Post quoted the Polish weekly Przegland as writing recently that the Americans tend to station the site in Poland, close to the Baltic Sea.
"We are still negotiating, no decision has been made as yet," the Polish Defence Ministry's spokesman Piotr Paszkowski said today.
He also declined to react to Svoboda's weekend statement.
A group of U.S. experts have already visited the Czech Republic and Poland to examine possible suitable localities.
The Pentagon wants to build a site in Europe that would be able to intercept possible enemy missiles launched from Iran and other risk countries.
According to available information, the site should be put in operation by 2011.
Czech politicians take differnet stands on the site. A recent Median poll showed that a crushing majority of Czechs are opposed to the stationing of U.S. missiles on Czech territory.
This will drive the Russkies ballistic.
THANK YOU POLAND! THANK YOU CZECHREPUBLIC!
"ballistic" - I get it.
The Czechs and Poles want missile defense but the liberal Democrats don't.
Gotta love Poland. Every move they make now seems to be a "screw-you" to the EU. Good for them.
"The Czechs and Poles want missile defense but the liberal Democrats don't."keep in mind the Czechs and Poles understand freedom, the liberal DEM haven't a clue!!!
Living in a police state will do that.
The EU? In what way (in this case)?
Actually one needs to distinguish between the Czechs and the Poles. Poland would be better than Czech politically and probably from a security standpoint as well.
Sorry, I was being lazy. I was referring to "other European countries".
Yeah but the Poles' popularity here on FR will rocket.
:)
The Poles are an Upright People.
I have a friend who just came back from Iraq. He said that when they were going into camp that is being run by the Poles, they would have to shoot code "shots" in the air because the Poles would shoot at anyone who came close to them. Then one time, even after the code "shots" were fired, the Poles still "accidently" shot at them. Later, when they went in to the base, the Poles offered bags of water as an apology. When my friend opened the bag of water to drink, he realized that they were filled with vodka. The best part he said is that that camp is the only one where the soldiers were able to take their gear of without worry of being attacked
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