Obama overturns Bush-era plan for missile shield in Eastern Europe


	Obama overturns Bush-era plan for missile shield in Eastern Europe

ratilfar

9-18-2009 9:43 AM

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missile, defense, eruope, us, russia, nukes, iran, news

ratilfar says:

About time.

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9-18-2009 10:52 AM

Kelika

Let the hand-wringing and fear mongering begin!

9-18-2009 4:48 PM

ratilfar

Yeah, missile defense makes this:

http://zs1.smbc-comics.com/comics/20090918.gif

much sense.

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