> Nuclear Chicken in Poland
> Putin Can't Afford to Back Down
>
> By Mike Whitney
>
>                                            "Don't blame the mirror if your
> face is crooked." Vladimir Putin quoting Russian proverb
>
> 24/08/08 "ICH" -- -  If the Bush administration proceeds with its plan to
> deploy its Missile Defense System in Poland, Russian Prime Minister Putin
> will be forced to remove it militarily. He has no other option. The proposed
> system integrates the the entire US nuclear arsenal into one
> operational-unit a mere 115 miles from the Russian border. It's no different
> than Khrushchev's plan to deploy nuclear missiles in Cuba in the 1960s.
>
>   Early last year, at a press conference that was censored in the United
> States, Putin explained his concerns about Bush's plan:
>
>   "Once the missile defense system is put in place it will work ...