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Published Date: 20 August 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was today due to sign a deal with Poland that will see a US missile defence base built on the soil of the former Soviet satellite.
The deal to site ten US interceptor missiles at a base just 115 miles from Russia's westernmost frontier has further strained Moscow's ties with the West – already deeply troubled by Russia's conflict with Georgia.

Rice and her Polish counterpart, Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, were due to sign the deal in the presence of both the Polish president and prime minister.

President Lech Kaczynski said it was "an important day in our history".

In a televised address last night, he said the deal strengthened Poland's position in the world.

The country has in recent years joined the European Union and Nato.

The US says the missile defence system is aimed at protecting the US and Europe from future attacks from states like Iran. It rejects Moscow's insistence that it is a threat to Russia.





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  • Last Updated: 20 August 2008 12:26 PM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Postmark-55,

China, 20/08/2008 13:01:15
The US of course is looking to provoke the Russians some more, anything to justify their gross military budget. Europe can protect itself from so called enemies, enemies it wouldn't have if it quit backing US policies.
It's time the whole world turned its back on the US, and let the mighty Empire buckle at the knees and fall flat on its face.
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20/08/2008 16:27:23
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Mashimaro,

China 20/08/2008 17:07:43
#2 would that be a western democratic vote then?

cos no one mentioned my top dude, Genghis Khan - the man of the millenium, and what about Emperor Hirohito, did we conveniently forget about him? I'm sure he did way way better than Hussein. Oh but wait, i forgot, the US likes Japan these days so you can just conveniently forget about Hirhohito. Or maybe your "world" poll forgot to include the most populous nation in the world.

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Peter - very disappointed/concerned,

EDINBURGH 20/08/2008 17:30:20
After the recent behaviour of Vladimir Ratfink Putin and his bunch of fellow thugs. What the blazes do the Soviets expect?

The West can't disarm now thanks to 'Mother Russia'

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Conan,

Moffat 20/08/2008 17:42:29
Don't waste your time with the foregoing Chinese Communist Party (Mafia) fuctionaries, aplogists and sympathizers who post here. They are so obviously in the pay or debt of the Chinese Communist Party (Mafia) that their words are simply literally worthless. There will come a day when the great Chinese peolpe will be free of the curse of the Chinese Communist Party (Mafia) ... and that will be truly a day of horrendous reckoning - and they well know it. Which is why they will stop at nothing to wrap themselves in the usual nationalistic jimgoism to provide some cover for themselves while they continue to sell the great people of China down the river and rob the place blind. But, their day of harsh punishment is coming as sure as the morning follows the night. its only a matter of time and pressure - time and pressure.
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Mashimaro,

China 21/08/2008 01:36:32
#4 The West had 10 years to disarm! All it did was arm further. How do you explain that? huh? huh?
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mike - across the pond,

um mashi.... 21/08/2008 02:04:44
gengis kahn...

please know your history... before you babble...

even more than Alexander the Great, he ruled a good portion of the world...

granted barbaric tactics were used in his name... however he put an end to a LOT of real bad guys along his way across the russian steppes... and in their wake better governments followed
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mike - across the pond,

mashi.... 21/08/2008 02:07:24
who said the west was going to disarm?

we arent going to disarm pal.... E V E R

when I was young my grandfather gave me a coin with the phrase...

"you can have my gun when you pry my cold dead fingers from around it"

pretty much spells it out... doesnt it?
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Postmark-55,

China, 21/08/2008 06:55:04
#9 mike - across the pond,
Not just pretty much spells it out, it shouts out how arrogant your lot are.
Nobody else can have weapons, just you and you @ss kissing pals like Israel, the UK and now India are allowed to join the club. It will all backfire boy, give it time.
Remember when you backed Iraq and Afghanistan and where it got you? Now you're in there losing manpower as we speak, on a daily basis, and you haven't learned a thing, and you never will. That's a given with arrogant bullies, they think that they're invincible, well remember 9-11 and how invincible you were eh? The next one will make that look like a walk in the park, mark my words.

By the way, where's your grandpappy now eh? Still got his fingers wrapped around that gun?

 

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