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WASHINGTON — The United States and Poland reached a long-stalled deal on Thursday to place an American missile defense base on Polish territory, in the strongest reaction so far to Russia’s military operation in Georgia.

Russia reacted angrily, saying that the move would worsen relations with the United States that have already been strained severely in the week since Russian troops entered separatist enclaves in Georgia, a close American ally. At a news conference on Friday, a senior Russian defense official, Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, suggested that Poland was making itself a target by agreeing to host the anti-missile system. Such an action “cannot go unpunished,” he said.

Russia has long opposed the deal, saying the United States was violating post-cold-war agreements not to base its troops in former Soviet bloc states and devising a Trojan Horse system designed to counter Russia’s nuclear ******** not an attack by Iran or another adversary.

Stop-and-start negotiations over the arrangement that was sealed Thursday had been under way for almost two years, with the Polish government reluctant to press the deal in the face of strong opposition — and retaliatory threats — from Moscow.

I feel bad for poland. It's historically been invaded by so many @#%^tards over the years that I"m honestly surprised that it still exists as a country.

I feel bad for poland. It's historically been invaded by so many @#%^tards over the years that I"m honestly surprised that it still exists as a country.

you have it completly backwards.

most of our animosity with russia today is because of us unilaterly backing out of the nuclear disarmiment treaty we signed with them to cool down the cold war. even the georgia campaign is directly related to us walking away from that international agreement. georiga is just another spinn off result of us signing an agreement with them, then thumbing our noses at them when we didnt want to abide by it any more.

the deal with poland was in the works ever since a few other countries declined to allow us to use their soil to volate our treaty with russia in building a missle defense system. long before the whole georgia campaign. russia sees this missle defense system as the begining of a play for world dominance. we have clearly demonstraited we will walk away from any treaty we sign. we have clearly demonstraited our word is only as good as it is convienent for us to keep it.

we build a defense system, then start building more powerfull weapons, then walk away from all of our treaties and use big stick policy negotiations for our international transactions.

weather or not that is the intention, it is the message we are sending to the WORLD by building it and unilaterly walking away from a treaty we signed in good faith with russia. how do you think china is going to respond? by allowing n.korea to build nuclear weapons to create a buffer between us and them mabe?

poland isnt a response to georgia. georgia is a response to us backing out of our treaty, and poland is only a small part of that backing out.

our words means nothing. iraq has clearly demonstraited that the words of the international community means nothing to us.

we have become the most dangerous and threatening entity on the planet. georgia is just the freying of the edges of the tapistry that has kept us out of another world war since ww2. the tapistry being our word and good faith.

just another legacy of the bush addministraition and the republicans. the cold war was good for bussiness........no matter how many civilians get killed elsewhere. but by gosh they will stop those axis of evil gays from getting married.

the ignorance of the repubs is astounding.

Yes, that probably is the Russian view of things, and apparently the view of the blame America first lefty crowd. THIS is the reason I will never be a lefty. They always end up on the wrong side of the argument. Their hatred for America knows no bounds and they end up in bed with the terrorists and the communists of the world.

Of course you hate me. When the left is faced with real facts instead of "feel good" intentions all they have left is personal attacks.

You don't have to "buy" anything I say. The facts are out there for you to make your own decision, you just have to do the research.

It was over when you posted, you just didn't know it. When you come up with something intelligent to say THEN post.