Report: Obama Offers to Scrap Missile Shield If Russia Cooperates on Iran

Fox News ^ | March 02, 2009 | staff

[icwhatudo]

President Obama offered to consider scrapping plans for a missile defense shield in Europe if Russia helps rein in Iran's nuclear program, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported.

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Obama inherited plans to build the system in Poland and the Czech Republic from the Bush administration, but the new administration has equivocated over the project. Though the plans were put in place to deter nations like Iran and North Korea from launching attacks and developing nuclear weapons, Russia has interpreted the planned installation as a threat.

[edcoil]

Billions spent to scrap a system that is working - well, at least, Clinton got most of the technology to China.

[HiJinx]

BTTT

[kc8ukw]

Hmm. I know some Freepers will probably be all for this because they don’t want to bother Russian just to protect Europe. I’m worried though - the few defensive missiles we wanted to put in Europe pose absolutely no threat whatsoever to Russia. To act as bothered as they do is already disingenuous on their part - can we really trust them to help us with Iran?

[TommyDale]

Idiot!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Bambi doesn’t play chess.

[PzLdr]

Channeling the post Viet Nam Dims, Obozo? Nothing like screwing your Allies to placate your enemies. Try working on your cojones instead of your abs, you putz.

[americanophile]

I'm sorry to have to give Russia what it wants, it looks like weakness, but frankly the result is fine by me. I'm tired of paying to defend an ungrateful Europe. If they don't care to protect their cities from missiles, why should we? We should focus on an effective North American missile defense shield, and if the Canadians won't help, we should work around them.

[penelopesire]

IT’S TIME TO IMPEACH OBAMA! He is wrecking our economy, our constitution, and our national defense!

[silverleaf]

of course we can trust Pootie and ahmadnutjob to honor the messiah’s request to “cooperate” after watching the US walk away from its defense commitments to its eastern european allies

[ETL]

President Obama offered to consider scrapping plans for a missile defense shield in Europe if Russia..

This POS/Obama is extremely dangerous.

[b4its2late]

The democrats won’t touch him. He’s got at least 2 years of clear sailing.....

[musicman]

"Report: Obama Offers to Scrap Missile Shield If Russia Cooperates on Iran"

[xkaydet65]

To act as bothered as they do is already disingenuous on their part - can we really trust them to help us with Iran?

NO!!!!

[nufsed]

Obama to Poland: YP Your problem.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

You make a good point. The Poles and the rest of Eastern Europe have become used to American presidents giving them up to Russian blackmail.

[silverleaf]

eastern europe has not been “ungrateful” and has stuck its neck out to help us in the WOT, in various ways, some not open to scrutiny

you confuse “france” and germany- old europe- as representing all of europe

[Callahan]

So what if Obama ditches the shield and Russia complies and then reverses course. Does the Obama put shield go back up? Barry is just giving away the store.

[Big_Monkey]

"Obama to Poland: YP Your problem.

Poland is just another country full of white people to Barry. Besides, we all look the same to him.

[TADSLOS]

Wow, he’s diminshing Jimmuh Carter’s status as king of the tools every day.