Obama rejects Russia missile link
BBC
The US president says his decision to shelve a missile defence plan was not dictated by Russian opposition.
"The Russians don't make determinations about what our defence posture is," Barack Obama told CBS television.
"If the by-product of it is that the Russians feel a little less paranoid... then that's a bonus," Mr Obama said.
US conservatives have criticised the decision to scrap the plan to deploy interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic.
Mr Obama's predecessor, George W Bush, had argued that the system was necessary to deal with potential threats from Iran.
Ground-based system
Under the system proposed by former president Bush, ground-based defence missiles would have been sited in Poland and a radar system to detect enemy missiles installed at Brdy in the Czech Republic. Iran's Shahab-3 missile is thought to have a maximum range of 2,000km.
Sea-based system
President Barack Obama has shelved plans to site interceptor missiles in Poland. Instead the Aegis and Standard Missile-3 systems will be deployed on US warships based in the Mediterranean, with mobile land-based variants to follow by 2015.
(Original here.)
The US president says his decision to shelve a missile defence plan was not dictated by Russian opposition.
"The Russians don't make determinations about what our defence posture is," Barack Obama told CBS television.
"If the by-product of it is that the Russians feel a little less paranoid... then that's a bonus," Mr Obama said.
US conservatives have criticised the decision to scrap the plan to deploy interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic.
Mr Obama's predecessor, George W Bush, had argued that the system was necessary to deal with potential threats from Iran.
Ground-based system
Under the system proposed by former president Bush, ground-based defence missiles would have been sited in Poland and a radar system to detect enemy missiles installed at Brdy in the Czech Republic. Iran's Shahab-3 missile is thought to have a maximum range of 2,000km.
Sea-based system
President Barack Obama has shelved plans to site interceptor missiles in Poland. Instead the Aegis and Standard Missile-3 systems will be deployed on US warships based in the Mediterranean, with mobile land-based variants to follow by 2015.
(Original here.)
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Of course he's decision had everything to do with Russia. I hope he doesn't think anyone believes him when he says it doesn't.
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