foxnews.com - 3/3/2009
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President Obama offered to consider scrapping plans for a missile defense shield in Europe if Russia helps rein in Iran's nuclear program, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported. The article said Obama wrote to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to tell him Russia's aid in resolving the threat ...
scrappleface.com - 3/5/2009
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scrappleface.com —
(2009-03-05) — President Barack Obama has reportedly written
another private note to his Russian counterpart offering to...
halt deployment of a defensive nuclear missile shield in Europe, this time in exchange for Russia’s help in dealing ...
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Obama to Drop Shield if Russia Helps with Limbaugh
in.reuters.com - 3/8/2009
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has test-fired a new
air-to-surface missile, Iranian media reported on Sunday, in the...
Islamic Republic's latest display of its military capability. The missile test was carried out despite the offer by the administration of ...
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Iran test-fires new missile - media
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jpost.com - 3/8/2009
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In a chilling indication that Iran's arms program
is advancing steadily, Israel acknowledged for the first time...
that Teheran had mastered the technology to make a nuclear bomb on the same day that the Iranians announced they had successfully tested a ...
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'Iran crossed nuclear tech threshold' | Iran news | ...
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Russian paper: Obama ready to trade European missile shield for Russian help with Iran?
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... would make its missile shield plans for Europe unnecessary, a Russian daily said on Monday, citing White House sources. U.S. President Barack Obama made the proposal on Iran in a letter to his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, Kommersant said, referring to unidentified U.S. officials… Moscow has not yet responded to the proposal by Obama, the paper said, adding that a decision was unlikely to be made during Lavrov and Clinton’s meeting. A senior U.S. official confirms that a letter was sent but won’t say what was in it. No surprise that The One’s ready for rapprochement ...
What, Didn’t We Have a Copy of “Red Dawn” Lying Around?
The Sundries Shack —
This week has put paid to the working theory that somewhere in the Obama administration lurks a foreign policy genius. Monday, we learned that the President sent a letter to the Russians offering them Poland and the Czech Republic if only they’d put in a good word for us to their friends in Tehran. Then, ...
Paging Dr. Obama: Looking Ahead to Government-Run Health Care
Pajamas Media —
... [image] President Barack Obama intends to remake society mainly by shifting American wealth from one group of people to another and from one priority to another. The most devastating shift will happen stealthily and steadily so that the priorities can’t shift back because too much government dependence will forbid it. That dependence will happen in the form of government-run health care. What will be traded in this bargain will be national defense. Defense spending will diminish. Missile shields in Europe will be traded for a waiting list for appendix removal in America. ...
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jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com 2/16/2009 — Forget protecting and aiding our allies. Obama is ready to throw Poland and the Czech Republic under the bus with the delusional notion Russia will be able to keep Iran from getting nukes, when Russia is the one helping them get there.Are these people ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 3/4/2009 — Pres. Obama's suggestion, in a letter to Russian president Medvedev, that the U.S. missile-defense system in Eastern Europe could be abandoned in exchange for Russian help in ending the threat from Iran is disturbing less for its content than for its ...
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