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

>> On 16 Aug, 12:55,snakehawkmailandnews.com> wrote:

>

>> ****

>

>> That will make two states, Israel and Poland,
>> that can decide without consulting the U.S.
>> Congress whether young U.S. soldiers will be killed and maimed

>

>> ****

>

>> Where's your evidence for that outrageous claim?

>
> 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.