On Aug 16, 6:25 am, Ariadne gmail.com> wrote:

Don't you read the news? Or do you just follow FOX? Polish officials
confirmed that in the recently signed agreement between Poland and the
United States government (not NATO, mind you), the United States and
Poland have mutually agreed to immediate military assistance in case
of "trouble." Here are quotes from Poland's Prime Minister Donald
Tusk from an article by the Associated Press on the agreement
published August 15, 2008:

"WARSAW, Poland — Poland and the United States struck a deal Thursday
that will strengthen military ties and put an American missile
interceptor base in Poland."

"'We have crossed the Rubicon,' Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk
said, referring to U.S. consent to Poland's demands after more than 18
months of negotiations."

"In an interview on news channel TVN24, Tusk said . . . the deal also
includes a 'mutual commitment' between the two nations to come to each
other's assistance 'in case of trouble.'"

"Talking about the 'mutual commitment' part of the agreement, Tusk
said the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would be too slow in
coming to Poland's defense if threatened and the bloc would take
'days, weeks to start that machinery. Poland and the Poles do not want
to be in alliances in which assistance comes at some point later — it
is no good when assistance comes to dead people. Poland wants to be in
alliances where assistance comes in the very first hours of — knock on
wood — any possible conflict,' Tusk said."

Common sense should tell any rational reader that the United States
will never require Poland's military help in anything. Nevertheless,
Bush has committed the United States to rush to join Poland in any
conflict with any enemy, naturally including Russia. It won't matter
how the conflict comes about, whether Poland goads the enemy into
attacking, or even whether Poland is the first to attack. the United
States is bound to send military forces into the conflict within hours
after Poland invokes the agreement whether or not NATO decides to get
involved.

In case anyone has forgotten, that's exactly how World War II
started. Britain and France made the same stupid agreement with the
newly formed state of Poland. But the Polish government was accused
of mistreating Germans who were forced to live under Polish control by
the Versailles Treaty. Then Poland threatened to attack Germany, even
mobilized its military. When Hitler attacked Poland, Britain and
France immediately declared war, even though Germany did not threaten
either Britain or France.

The war-causing agreement between Poland and Britain was the same type
of "mutual defense" agreement just signed by the bungling warmonger
Bush. If the stupid Bush had entered into a similar agreement with
Georgia, we would be in World War III today.