U.S. Boosts Missile Defense System Plans

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

U.S. Boosts Missile Defense System Plans

By WILLIAM J. KOLE
The Associated Press
Friday, March 23, 2007; 9:26 AM

VIENNA, Austria -- U.S. officials are intensifying their campaign to build
support in European capitals for plans to deploy a missile defense shield in
Poland and the Czech Republic _ a proposal that Russia contends could touch
off a new arms race.

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Mark Pekala was in Vienna on Friday
for two days of meetings with ambassadors to the 56-nation Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe, hoping to win greater regional backing
for the plan.

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Recent polls suggest most Poles oppose the idea of hosting 10 interceptor
missiles that Washington contends would serve as a shield to counteract Iran's
potential future missile capabilities. Czechs, meanwhile, have staged several
small but boisterous protests against U.S. plans to station an accompanying
radar system in their country.

Lawmakers in Ukraine were the latest to balk, adopting a resolution Thursday
in parliament that declared the system a threat to Ukraine's national security.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032300659.html

[randycrow]

1. Russia considers this an act of war

says the system is offensive and is handling it as if the USA intends to attack them.

[HuffleClaw]

2. what a complete joke and total waste of money

they might as well simply hand over trillions to their campaign contributors.