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Romania to Host U.S. Missile Shield

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Posted on Feb 5, 2010
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Iran released this photo in July 2008 of missiles being test-fired in the desert. Trouble is, the photo had apparently been digitally altered to show four missiles rising into the air, when in fact one never left the pad.

In an announcement more apt for a dinner party than a defense memorandum, Romania has agreed to host a new U.S. missile shield in its territory aimed at protecting Western interests from the “emerging threat” of Iranian ballistic missiles. —JCL

The BBC:

Romania has agreed to host missile interceptors as part of a new US defence shield, its president says.

President Traian Basescu said the plan was approved by the defence council. It still needs parliamentary approval.

The US scrapped a previous missile shield, based in Poland and the Czech Republic, which had infuriated Russia.

Instead the new system would provide better defence from “the emerging threat” of Iranian short- and medium-range missiles, a US official said.

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By drbhelthi, February 8, 2010 at 1:41 am Link to this comment

Forget the politics?
When rulers of the USA, like NAZI-illuminati member
Heinz Alfred (Henry) Kissenger, say that soldiers
are puppets to be used to forward political goals?
When the CIA is a legal, political organization
in the US Gov., to the budget of which
US Congresspersons do not have access?

When was a decent presidential-level proposal made,
since GHWBushSr overtook the CIA about 1963, that
was not a US Citizenry, tax-theft debacle?

Jimmy Carter is the only US President that left the
presidency poorer than when he entered.

Gross naivete´ seems to be a thread that permeates
all levels of Americans, and increasingly, Europeans!!! 
The Bush/CIA/MOSSAD propaganda is slowly
overtaking the public media of Germany.

Eyes will be opened a bit wider, if the MOSSAD pull
off their repeat of 9-11 during the Canadian
Olympics. The world will know presently, if it happens.

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By Carl, February 7, 2010 at 11:24 am Link to this comment

Forget about the politics, this is a blatant taxpayer rip off. The SM-3 doesn’t even have half the range needed to intercept missiles fired from Iran or Russia at Europe. It would have to be at least 100 miles from the launch site.

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By drbhelthi, February 7, 2010 at 9:52 am Link to this comment

When we compare the aggressive activities of USA
since WWII to those of Russia, we see that the
USA has colonized numerous countries around the
world, while Russia has lost territory. Congressman
Ron Paul documented that the US CIA has instigated
coups against foreign governments two hundred (200)
times. The attack of Mikhail Saakashvilli, dictator
of the former Russian province of Georgia, on 8
August 2008 against South Ossetia, was reported by
insiders to have been a function of the US CIA. 
Insiders reported over thirty US senior soldiers
advising him at the time.  “- - 41 year old Mikhail
Saakashvili to be a ruthless and corrupt
totalitarian who is tied to not only the US NATO
establishment, but also to the Israeli military and
intelligence establishment.”

The alleged “missile defense” in Romania is a
colonization move, which will enable initiation of
repopulation with israeli MOSSAD types and naive
US soldiers.  The alleged US missiles will not defend
against NAZI/Bush/MOSSAD terrorism, soon to be
introduced to Romania, making it easier to export to
Russia, eventually.  Insiders predict that the
Canadian Olympics will get a taste of it, very soon.
Time will tell.

One concludes that the leadership of Poland and the
Czech Republic do not care for CIA/MOSSAD
colonization.

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By johannes, February 7, 2010 at 8:46 am Link to this comment

You must be real stupid if you can belief, that you can stop a country like Russia with 20 000 rockets armed with 6 atomic boms.

Is it not much more intiligent to start talking with Russia, as to put some not working systems on this stupid countrys territory.

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By WykydRed, February 7, 2010 at 6:25 am Link to this comment

Considering how well these “shields” work (not one damn bit), the Romanians better start putting shitloads of money into survival bunkers!

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By Claus Eric Hamle, February 6, 2010 at 9:51 pm Link to this comment
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And will the radars still be deployed in the Czech Republic ?
According to former Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-www.plrc.org-the Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability. Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 D5 linked to GPS obtain a CEP (Circular Error Probability - - the radius centered on the target in which half the warheads are expected to hit) of 30 meters or less, enough to destroy any hard target. And according to Bob Aldridge the US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously. Please see Robert C. Aldridge: Nuclear Empire, ch. 9. Even if the Pentagon´s First-Strike Capability is only for blackmail, the Russians may have no choice but implementing Launch On Warning. Bob Aldridge resigned because a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability is suicidal.

Obama cancelled the missiles in Poland in order to deploy missiles in Romania and Poland. Bloody fools in the bloody Pentagon. And we could have been here some 4 billion years more. According to Uni of Colorado 100 warheads Hiroshima-size are enough for Nuclear Winter.

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By FRTothus, February 6, 2010 at 10:02 am Link to this comment

The “Missile Shield” is an offensive weapon, placed here in violation of US law and treaty obligations.  The US continues in its lawless, threatening ways, hoping to provoke a reaction the empire’s scribes will undoubtedly call “terrorism”.

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By drbhelthi, February 6, 2010 at 6:52 am Link to this comment

The names and faces of Romanian leadership has changed,
but their lust for power and CIA dollars remains.  Of
course, it is a foregone conclusion that any rocket-
launchers to be built will be facing the wrong
direction.

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By Ouroborus, February 6, 2010 at 5:09 am Link to this comment

America is too busy building Iran into a mouse that
roars. LOL, give me a break, what a joke.

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By johannes, February 6, 2010 at 2:59 am Link to this comment

The political American Elite, want to make from the whole world one great inferno, just spreading war every where, and nothing to do with freedom ” 3 million American citizen are in prisson 3, but with dirty money making.

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By guacamaya, February 6, 2010 at 2:21 am Link to this comment

I rejoiced last year when Obama decided not to go ahead with installing missiles in Europe. But the US seems determined to cause trouble for others all over the globe .... Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now missiles in Europe.

Romania which recently became a member of the EU is a very poor country. It also has such a corrupt government that the EU has threatened to withhold payments if they do not clean up their act. Consequently the US will have had little trouble convincing it’s government that the placing of US missiles in their country is good news for them. But it’s citizens who may one day become a target because of it will have had no say in it. It is also not good news for the other EU countries.

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By Grousefeather, February 5, 2010 at 7:43 pm Link to this comment
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Aggression disguised as defence is still aggression.

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By gerard, February 5, 2010 at 5:30 pm Link to this comment

We meet “an emerging threat” by installing our own “emerging threat” and there is no end in sight because without manufacturing “emerging threats” our unemployment would go through the roof.

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By PatrickHenry, February 5, 2010 at 1:53 pm Link to this comment

I wonder how many of our tax dollars paid for this “agreement”.

We need schools, road and infrastructure impovements here in the states than pursuit of this war mongering folly.

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