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Missile system scrapped - 9/17/2009 3:46:25 PM

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President Obama has decided to scrap the European missile system, that few Europeans wanted. This should please those who advocate spending cuts as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090917/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_missile_defense

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RE: Missile system scrapped - 9/17/2009 3:55:16 PM

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To some extent the shield was not workable. Useful.    Deficient.

4 powers are basically jockying for power.   India, China, Russia and the USA.      (others factor in- but for simplicity we will call it this)

Russia I heard was promised the 5th power of power- being above the USA.   That remains to be seen.   But now you have all 3 of those countries telling their people to buy silver and gold.   China told Wall Street-it might not keep its derivatives promises.
Wall street is mad.

The powers that be have no clue- same to a good many of people.

The EU/global faction of the elite- resent the US having a printing press.   The dollar tho is backed by bombs.

There is often alot of things going on that do not come out for many years... to understand this.

One thing that is clear tho.   The middle class is going to take a massive hit.

The US wont scrimp on bombs.    The US will get 2 others to slaughter eachother- sell weapons to all sides and the bankers will finance it- war debts get paid back in gold- not fiat money,

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RE: Missile system scrapped - 9/17/2009 4:41:28 PM

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First of all why should U.S. Taxpayers pay for Eastern Europe's defense?
Secondly, why on earth would Iran want to ever attack Eastern Europe? To steal their ox carts? "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"
Obama needs to make a lot more spending cuts like this.

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RE: Missile system scrapped - 9/17/2009 4:47:45 PM

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I thought the idea was (and I may be wrong) to detect IC missiles coming out of the east possibly headed towards the US rather than anywhere in Europe?

Equally I was under the impression that the whole thing was more about throwing the Russians off balance than any real utility, given the UK is and has been for decades the site of such detection efforts. As such that it was all about honouring the legacy of Reagan's star wars policy and posturing on the home stage.

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RE: Missile system scrapped - 9/17/2009 7:19:54 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: popeye1250

First of all why should U.S. Taxpayers pay for Eastern Europe's defense?
Secondly, why on earth would Iran want to ever attack Eastern Europe? To steal their ox carts? "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"
Obama needs to make a lot more spending cuts like this.

First thing, universal healthcare is quite widespread throughout Eastern Europe and it's affordable, effective and doesn't bankrupt people, unlike in certain countries I could mention. In fact in most places they have a standard of living comparable to that in Western Europe.

Eastern European defense isn't paid for by U.S. Taxpayers or really has anything to do with U.S. Taxpayers. U.S. Taxpayers pay towards an organization called NATO, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which has been around quite a while, as do Taxpayers of other member states, including the UK and Poland.

You can find out what NATO is here.

Eastern Europe is defended to a large extent by NATO, but using their own forces. For example Poland (who managed to stump up enough money to pay for some F-16 fighter planes from the Americans) which is defended by Polish armed forces who since their accession to NATO have been trained by mainly the British and Dutch armed forces at bases such as Draworsk Pomorski in north west Poland.

Incidentally I read somewhere that out of every $4 spent in the world one dollar goes to the United States. But anyway...

Instrumental in the Iraq invasion and Coalition forces Operation Iraqi Freedom were GROM and a specialist chemical warfare unit which were both part of the Polish armed forces. Indeed in 1991 prior to Operation Desert Storm it was GROM who managed to rescue a number of CIA agents, protected US ambassador's W. G. Walker's missions in Kosovo and Macedonia, and who are currently working to eliminate (not capture) terrorists in Afghanistan.

The war dead in Iraq includes 13 from Bulgaria, 1 from the Czech Republic, 2 from Estonia, 1 from Kazachstan, 3 from Latvia, 23 from Poland, 3 from Romania, 4 from Slovenia, and 18 from the Ukraine.

So stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

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RE: Missile system scrapped - 9/17/2009 10:36:41 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: popeye1250

First of all why should U.S. Taxpayers pay for Eastern Europe's defense?
Secondly, why on earth would Iran want to ever attack Eastern Europe? To steal their ox carts? "Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!"
Obama needs to make a lot more spending cuts like this.

Silly popeye.    The laws are for big corporations.   Those that are over taxed and now have expanded rights to fund election candidates. ;-0

Riddles to answer are why does New York hold Germanies gold?    What happened to the gold the the CIA split with Japan that was plundered from others?

Why does Rockafeller have over 2000 corporations registered in off shore islands?

My point is- we the peons are all merely pawns in the game.     Corporation A vs Corporation B.   All the while Rothschild tallies 500$ trillion in wealth-

and the US dollar is a federal reserve note- which means- all the land water resources - ie your house is collateral for the national debt.

Only Texas has portions where alodial title is still used.    The rest of us are subject the maritime law- and have no land or assets to speak of.

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