Posted on 12/13/2012 10:28:24 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
CBS News has learned Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has signed the order to send two U.S. Patriot missile batteries to Turkey.
He delivered the news to CBS News correspondent Cami McCormick in an exclusive interview.
Panetta spokesman George Little says Panetta is also sending 400 members of the military to operate the missile batteries.
The deployment is part of a NATO effort to help build a shield to protect Turkey from chemical weapons attacks or any incoming missiles from its neighbor, Syria.
Under NATO agreement, the U.S., Germany and Netherlands will deploy the batteries and set them up inside of Turkey by the beginning of next year
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I sure wish that “Arab Spring” was something innocent, like a deodorant soap.
Russia will consider this a provocative act.
Just like Bubba did in Kosovo, Obama and Hillary are trying to start WWIII, with the U.S. on the side of the Muslim extremists and Russia on the side of the Christians. Hard to believe we could be put into this position.
Interesting.. “Flexibility”?
0bama’s BFF is President Erdogan of Turkey.
It really is an unbelievable turn of events...
Guess it’s time to replace those Jupiters we took out.
Never could imagine America would be one of the “world powers” that tries to take out Israel. Never thought that Prophecy would come to pass. Boy was I wrong. God help us!
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