Putin pledges effective response to U.S. anti-missile plan (Reuters)

[Eugene]

Putin pledges effective response to U.S. anti-missile plan

Thu Feb 1, 8:03 AM ET

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin criticized Washington's plans
for an anti-missile system in Central Europe and said on Thursday Russia
would come up with a "highly effective" response.

The U.S. has proposed stationing a radar station in the Czech Republic and
a battery of rockets in Poland to detect and shoot down hostile missiles,
which the Pentagon says could be fired from Iran in the future.

Putin dismissed Washington's arguments about defending Europe from Iran
and said the anti-missile system would "directly affect" Russia.

"Our specialists don't think that anti-missile systems in Eastern Europe
are aimed against terrorists or Iran. Can you really fight terrorists
with ballistic missiles?" he told a news conference in Moscow.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070201/wl_nm/russia_putin_missiles_dc

[Purveyor]

1. The "cold war" kettle is heating up to a near boil, it seems. n/t

[AndyA]

2. We may just get that war with Russia we worried about for so many years.

And here I thought things between the U.S. and Russia were pretty good. That is, of course, until Little Sh!t took office. Now we don't have good relations with anyone.