Congress To Stop Missile Defense Plan

Finally, Bush will be stopped on his idiotic missiles plan for Poland. Bush in another one of his destructive ideas which not only threading peace in the region but has pushed Russian into a corner with the threat of another cold war.

• Washington Post: Democrats in Congress are building a legislative roadblock to the Bush administration’s plan to place elements of a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.

• The Senate is expected to join the House next week in reducing funds in the fiscal 2008 Defense Authorization Bill for construction of 10 interceptor missile sites in Poland and for deployment of an X-band radar in the Czech Republic. The House, in passing its version of the legislation last month, cut $40 million from the bill, which would have funded preparation of the Polish sites next year. The move prevents the White House from proceeding unless President Bush vetoes the measure.

Should Bush pull his spoiled brat trick and veto this bill he will put the entire defense budget in jeopardy. But you know it will be someone else’s fault.

• The Senate Armed Services Committee, justifying its decision to delay funding for the European antimissile sites, emphasized not only foreign policy concerns but also technical issues surrounding the interceptor missiles.

• The panel also noted that moving ahead without NATO participation in a system that is in part intended to protect Europe from Iranian missiles would cost the United States an estimated $4 billion through fiscal 2013. “NATO, which has not yet decided to pursue missile defense of its territory, has not endorsed or rejected the proposed deployment,” the panel’s report added.

In typical Bush style of spending money on an imaginary threat, doing outside of NATO and the fact that nobody in the region wants it. Now lets look at some more of information the Senate committee uncovered on Bush’s little brainstorm.

• The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has told the Senate panel that construction and deployment could not begin until the two countries ratify agreements with the United States, estimating that such actions “would not take place before 2009,” according to the report. Polish officials, hearing Russian objections to the U.S. system so near their border, have also raised questions about the additional U.S. military support that would come with placement of the interceptors on their soil.

We won’t know if everyone agrees until Bush is out of office. So does Bush plan on hanging around the West Wing for the meetings to conclude? No, Bush will leave another mess for the next president.

• The Senate panel also noted that the interceptor to be placed in Poland “has not yet been developed or tested, and is not currently planned to be flight-tested until 2010.” Therefore, the committee concluded, “it could be several years before it is known if the interceptor will work in an operationally effective manner.”

Brilliant, upset a region, put the U.S. and Russia on verge of another cold war and spend money we don’t have, for a project that still on scratch paper. I wonder what Bush’s “plan B” look like.

Here’s another little nugget Bush neglected to tell anyone.

• Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry A. Obering III, director of the Missile Defense Agency, recently testified before the panel that U.S. intelligence misjudged North Korea’s ability to launch a long-range missile in 1998. “Right now, the experts are saying that Iran will not have an ICBM until the 2010-2015 time frame,” Obering said.

Bush the true weapon of mass destruction.

US Mideast Bases Within Our Missiles’ Range, Iran Warns

The world is being run by a bunch of mad men. Bush & Lieberman may just get their wish for a war with Iran. Did Lieberman have an inside track on his information?

Daily Times Pakistan: Monday, June 11, 2007

TEHRAN: Iran has warned that US military bases in the Middle East are within the range of its missiles, amid increasing tensions with Washington over the Iranian nuclear programme, media reported Sunday.

“All the American bases in the region are within the reach of our weapons,” said Mohammad Baqer Zolghadr, the deputy interior minister in charge of security issues.

“If the United States attacked Iran, US interests would be in danger everywhere in the world,” added Zolghadr, a former deputy chief of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards.

Iran has an array of medium range missiles and claims that its longer-range Shahab-3 missile has a reach of 2,000 kilometres which would put US bases on the Arabian peninsula within reach.

Separately, Iranian parliament speaker Gholam Ali Hadad Adel while talking to reporters during an official visit to Kuwait warned that his country would strike US military bases in neighbouring Gulf states if they were used as staging posts to attack the Islamic republic over its nuclear programme.

“We rule out the possibility that our neighbours… will allow the United States to use their territory in attacking Iran,” he said.

“But if this actually happens, we will be forced to defend ourselves… We will target those bases or points” used to attack Iran, he said.

Bush: The Weapon of Mass Destruction

As Bush swaggers his way to the G8 Summit, he has managed in a few short days to escalate the hostility that’s growing between him and Putin. Bush espousing that Putin is destroying democracy. Excuse me but let’s not forget that Bush has destroyed freedom and democracy in America. Our civil liberties have been violated and many taken away. So I truly believe that until we get our country back in order, Bush should not be telling everyone else how to get their country in order.

The other moronic statement by Bush, which is the escalating problems with Russia, is telling Putin that the cold war is over.  That’s another slight of hand trick by Bush, start a fight and then turn the blame to someone else. The cold war that Bush says Putin is starting involves the missile and radar system that Bush wants to put in Poland and the  Czech Republic. This idea of rouge states attacking Europe was instigated by Bush and his administration several months ago.  And yet somehow Putin is starting the new cold war.

In reality Putin has controlled his voice on the missiles in Poland until the arm twisting by Rice got out of control. Both Poland and the Czech Republic have been saying for several months that they don’t want the missiles or radar system in their countries and that it would destabilize peace in the region. Destabilize peace isn’t that what Bush is all about? Bush is the weapon of mass destruction.

This is not new news; I have posted several stories on Poland and missiles since April. However, since the main steam media who is four to six weeks behind in information, today it becomes news. The talking heads with their misplaced focus is on Putin and his “new cold war”. When in reality had the talking heads been on top of this, they would know that Bush began the arm twisting of Poland. The main stream will continue to focus on Putin and not take an in depth look at what they have missed for several months. 

By the way guess who these rouge states that Bush is trying to protect Europe from. According to Bush it’s Iran. Well folks here we are again getting Iran involved in an imaginary missile attack when in reality Iran is at best 5 years away from such a capability. Five years away, is that not enough time to settle difference with talks and negotiations? A reasonable person would think so, but then we are speaking of Bush the unreasonable decider of all things wrong and immoral.

The Bush game of world domination continues but this time he is going up against a man who will not put up with his delusions of grandeur and self riotous BS.  Putin is not without fault, but is he wrong to believe that he needs to protect his country from the U.S. missiles?  I don’t think so. After all half this country supported and followed Bush in his stupid misadventures.

Maybe this is the catastrophic event that Bush needs to engage is new role as dictator. Remember the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive he quietly signed on May 9, 2007 which gives him total control of the country. Isn’t it shocking that the talking heads missed this one.  Since it happened May 9, it will become news to them on July 9.

Hearing More About The Sad Bush Legacy

Thank to the magazine The New Yorker article by George Packer

Bush’s legacy will be the war in Iraq and, secondarily, the array of decisions on prisoners, alliances, treaties, and preventive war which revolutionized American foreign policy after September 11th. Last year, when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was asked whether Iraq would come to define the Bush Administration, she said, “I think it’ll be bigger than Iraq, I think it will be the Middle East.” This was wishful thinking on the part of the official most engaged in walking the Administration back from its own wreckage: a desire to define the President’s record away from what it has actually wrought in our time and toward a hypothetical future. In fifty years, this thinking goes, a new generation will realize that the war kick-started political change, and forced the Middle East out of its deadly pattern of autocracy and extremism.

This exercise in justification by faith posits a visionary President with the courage to ignore temporary bad news. By this light, Bush’s habit of declaring A to be B—for example, claiming that the surge reflects the public’s desire for a change in war policy, or interpreting increased violence in Iraq as a token of the enemy’s frustration with American success—becomes a sign of clarity and resolve, not delusional thinking. When everything is turning to ashes, take the long view. Last December, Senator Richard Durbin, of Illinois, described a meeting at the White House in which Bush discussed Harry S. Truman and the foreign policy of the early Cold War—initially unpopular, ultimately vindicated by history. According to Durbin, Bush implied that he will be similarly remembered.

Who knows what the world will look like in fifty years? It’s hard to imagine, but perhaps the Middle East is at the start of a decades-long road toward democracy and stability. If so, though, history isn’t likely to find the prime cause of that happy outcome in the Bush Presidency. Truman established the institutions and policies that guided America to victory in the Cold War. The loss of China, the stalemate in Korea, and the corruption and the domestic upheavals of the late forties and early fifties now seem secondary to the international architecture—the NATO alliance, the doctrine of containment, the legitimacy of democracies as a counter-force to Communism—that Truman left in place. Bush will have no such legacy. His Administration—or part of it—is trying to reverse or restrain his farthest-reaching policies without admitting that anything went wrong with them. We are not present at the creation of anything. A democratic Middle East would bear the same relation to the Iraq war as the United Nations does to the Second World War: the salvaging of a tragedy, not the fulfillment of a vision.

Both Liberal and Conservative Historians  have a daunting task ahead of them.

My fear is that the next generation won’t have time to read about the history that put them in harms way.  How they came to deal with world conflict and natural disasters will not be a priority, surviving them will be the priority!

King George Has Armageddon Envy!

Fightin’ Words from Putin, Ahmadinejad

Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t showing any sign of softening up in his response to the U.S. government’s plans to install an anti-missile shield in Europe.  Meanwhile, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dramatically announced that Israel’s days are numbered.

 King George is determined to start COLD WAR or HOT WAR

Mr. Putin, in an interview at his country residence outside Moscow, said he considers U.S. plans to build an eastern European anti-missile site to shoot down Iranian missiles a provocation aimed at Russia.

Asked what he might do to retaliate, he said he would return Russia to the Cold War status where missiles were aimed at European targets.

“It is obvious that if part of the strategic nuclear potential of the United States is located in Europe, and according to our military experts will be threatening us, we will have to respond,” he said.

King George has Armageddon envy!  Why are we going along with this?

Why is the news media just NOW putting this on the front page?

 

 

 

Official In Charge Of IRAN’s Nuclear Program Resigns Again

Iran: Larijani Tenders His Resignation in Protest

23/05/2007 By Ali Nourizadeh

London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Dr Ali Larijani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council [SNSC] of Iran and the official in charge of nuclear program, has tendered his resignation for the fifth time in recent months to Supreme Leader [of the Islamic Revolution] Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian sources have said that the resignation is in protest against what he described in his resignation letter as irresponsible behavior and statements by the president of the republic and his colleagues, which have obstructed the course of the negotiations with the European Union and current steps to ward off threats against Iran and its strategic interests.

Iranians seem to be suffering from the same ailment that Americans have. Leadership of the insane! The leaders of the World seems to be suffering from Theocratic Megalomania. Except of course Russia, which is silently sliding back into a dictatorship of the Mafia kind instead of the Communist kind. C’mon folks, don’t we outnumber these guys? America’s 2008 votes will determine whether we slide into their twisted version of Armageddon.

Rice Dismissive of Russian

Rice, while peddling the U.S. missile defense plan in Oslo, backfired. The plan would put 10 missile interceptors in Poland and radar in the Czech Republic to defend against what it perceives as a potential future threat from Iran.” (see 4/24 post on plan),

“President Vladimir Putin’s threat to pull out of a Cold War-era arms control treaty, as the strategic confrontation between the two former enemies escalated. Putin stopped abiding by a 1990 conventional arms pact and said Russia might abandon it altogether, accusing the U.S. of upsetting Europe’s strategic balance by widening its military presence on former Soviet territory.”

Of course Rice in her usual flippant way tossed Putin’s statements aside by stating “The idea that somehow 10 interceptors and a few radars in Eastern Europe are going to threaten the Soviet strategic deterrent is purely ludicrous, and everybody knows it.

Rice obviously doesn’t care that Poland doesn’t want the missiles or the radar in their county; but that irrelevant. So now we have a wider gap between the U.S. and Russian, for a perceived threat from Iran. Between Bush and his great missile defense plan and Rice’s lack of diplomacy we just might be heading for another cold was.

The Bush Missle Plan For Poland

Bush and his band of destructive thieves are at it again. They’re not happy that they’ve destroyed the U.S., Iraq and the worlds trust in us, now they are pushing Russian and other European countries to put up a missile defense shield in Poland.  Reuters: “Washington wants to place 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic to defend against what it perceives as a potential future threat from Iran.”  It was further reported that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said “We have the impression that everything has already been decided in Washington,” Lavrov told reporters in Luxembourg. “We cannot really see that we could join.”  It’s not surprising that Poland objects to the idea and Russia doesn’t trust Washington.

Prior to Bush, the cold war had ended, the Berlin wall came down and the world was starting to get along. There were still problems but people were talking to each other and beginning to trust each other. Bush couldn’t be happy with the idea of peace, so now we have the Middle East in chaos, the threat of another cold war, building walls of separation and Poland is targeted to be the new sandbox for Bush to play in. Good job George. 

I’m sure Bush will send V.P. Darth Vader out to tell the Europeans that they don’t understand the threat and they’re defeatist.  Or maybe he will send McCain, his mini me, to serenade the European Union on bombing Iran.   Let’s not forget Lieberman, who will defend the missile plan as the fight on terror that Poland just doesn’t understand.

Bush is looking for any excuse to provoke a war with Iran.  I figured out that the real reason he doesn’t want a timetable for the Iraqi pullout is so the troops can be carried across the border to Iran at a moment’s notice; when he starts another unjustified war. I’m sure when the Europeans completely reject Bush on this, it will some how be Pelosi and the Democrats fault.