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SHOWDOWN: RUSSIA VOWS SHIELD RESPONSE BEYOND DIPLOMACY
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Posted on 08/20/2008 10:34:32 AM PDT by illiac

SHOWDOWN: RUSSIA VOWS SHIELD RESPONSE BEYOND DIPLOMACY

Breaking news - just headline.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: esterneurope; geopolitics; georgia; missiledefense; poland; russia
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To: SevenofNine
“OH OH I wonder how Magic Barry going handle the Russians if he get into office.”

Easy: “I'm warning Mr. Putin, don't you dare impugn my manhood. You have no idea what will happen to you...(uh, er, uh, I'll hold my breath if you don't stop...I told you to stop, wait, stop.... you're going to regret doing this to me... I'm special....).

41 posted on 08/20/2008 10:49:58 AM PDT by keepitreal ("I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. . . until I don't.")
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To: illiac

“You not defend nation we want destroy. Me BEAR. You Eagle. Me bog rocks. You big smile. We spit in your face, you call it dew. We stop exporting Popov Vodka unless you out of Poland. We take poland, all your missiles ours.”


42 posted on 08/20/2008 10:50:59 AM PDT by Righter-than-Rush
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To: illiac

The Dems are watching polling numbers, at this point, to see where they can get an advantage on this issue. If the public is in favor of a more measured response, and diplomacy, they will excoriate Bush for being a cowboy. If, on the other hand, they find that polls are telling them to be more hawkish, than Bush’s current response, they will blast Bush, and seek to gain an advantage. If the polls are split, they will sit on their hands for the time being and wait for Bush to make an unpopular move, and then jump on it. The dems voted for Iraq, due to the fact that they didnt want to be on the wrong side of the repeat of the Iraq war, but once they saw a chance to cut Bush’s throat, politically speaking, they jumped on an anti-war bandwagon, even though the majority of their own party were in favor of the war in the first place. They put party way ahead of what should be done with the russians(I know,captain obvious calling) but they are political mercenaries as of the last couple of decades.


43 posted on 08/20/2008 10:51:10 AM PDT by krogers58
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To: illiac

its more than a headline now it links to a story.


44 posted on 08/20/2008 10:51:25 AM PDT by omega4179 (B.Hussein Keep the change!)
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To: SumProVita
“This doesn’t bode well for Obama.” Understatement...

It doesn't bode well for any USA leader

bad enough we have the muslim terrorists --now it is Russia again
45 posted on 08/20/2008 10:51:45 AM PDT by uncbob
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To: Rick.Donaldson

“The Georgians killed Russians, what did you expect the Russians to do? Sit on their asses?”

Only Americans have to do that. Kill our people and the left tells us it is our fault.


46 posted on 08/20/2008 10:52:20 AM PDT by keepitreal ("I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. . . until I don't.")
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To: SevenofNine

47 posted on 08/20/2008 10:52:28 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: Cold Heat
They do this for public as well as private reasons, and by keeping their people riled up against some foreign aggressor,they are much better positioned to take away rights and liberties necessary to maintain political control.

Judging from the statements of some of their citizens on the net lately, I think they're just proud "to be somebody" again, even though the only "somebody" they're capable of being is a knuckle-dragging bully.

48 posted on 08/20/2008 10:53:27 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: the anti-liberal

The dems are already urging restraint on the installation, citing it as still an unproven system. This will end up as a bargaining chip for something. Of course the russians have nothing to offer. Have they blocked access to the space station yet?


49 posted on 08/20/2008 10:53:51 AM PDT by Always Independent
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To: conservativepoet

Don’t think so. If I were Poland and or the Ukraine I’d be seeking cover.

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I think that would cross a trip line with this administration”

With the US just inking a mutual defense treaty with Poland I think you can count that out. I also think the Ukraine would be too tuff a nut to crack right now. With al-Asaad heading to Moscow now and the Kremlin’s recent comments about giving Syria nukes I think the playing field moves further to the south. Putin will find more friendlies in Syria and Iran than in Eastern Europe and he can further consolidate his energy gains there. The Kremlin is furious about our troops in Iraq and they’re looking to counter our moves there.


50 posted on 08/20/2008 10:54:35 AM PDT by bereanway
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To: illiac
"When you threaten Poland, you perhaps forget that it is not 1988," Rice said. "It's 2008 and the United States has a ... firm treaty guarantee to defend Poland's territory as if it was the territory of the United States. So it's probably not wise to throw these threats around."

Can you imagine such a strong response from an Obama Administration?

51 posted on 08/20/2008 10:54:43 AM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: flyfree

http://www.redstate.com/diaries/brianfaughnan/2008/aug/15/how-would-president-obama-handle-russian-expa/

Remember this video by Hussein?


52 posted on 08/20/2008 10:54:46 AM PDT by roses of sharon (SAVE YOUR GAS RECIEPTS, SEND TO PELOSI!)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Some of their comments are downright rotten and rude, calling all Americans “idiots” and “morons” among other things. WE’re too stupid obviously because we “believe everything out government news agencies are telling us”. lol

Some how, methinks they are confused on whose “government news agencies” are being listen to by whom.....


53 posted on 08/20/2008 10:55:36 AM PDT by Rick.Donaldson (http://www.transasianaxis.com - Please visit for latest on Russia/China/DPRK et al.)
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To: Rick.Donaldson; Abathar; SumProVita

From what you folks have said, there’s a euphemism that seems to best sum it up: “fellow travelers.”


54 posted on 08/20/2008 10:55:42 AM PDT by the anti-liberal
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To: illiac

55 posted on 08/20/2008 10:56:06 AM PDT by Islander7 ("Show me an honest politician and I will show you a case of mistaken identity.")
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To: uncbob

Russia is linked to some of those terrorists for their own economic gain.


56 posted on 08/20/2008 10:56:08 AM PDT by SumProVita ("Cogito ergo sum pro vita." .....updated Descartes)
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To: marron

Their claim to power doesn’t come from deed but from fear. They know no other way.


57 posted on 08/20/2008 10:56:20 AM PDT by Always Independent
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To: conservativepoet
Yea, but Russia won’t be satisfied.

Russia - a drunk with an unlimited appetite.

58 posted on 08/20/2008 10:57:11 AM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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To: illiac

Didn’t the dems give Putin the memo? The shields not 100% effective so they don’t want to fund it.


59 posted on 08/20/2008 10:57:17 AM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: Pete

But will they vote for a one term senatrix and ex first lady? I am becoming afraid we’ll get the answer to that question. :-( I really would rather McCain run against BHO, not HRC, but I am seeing just so many editorials and articles all but begging the DNC not to officially nominate him that I am beginning to fear a HRC resurrection.


60 posted on 08/20/2008 10:57:49 AM PDT by Verloona Ti
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