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    No Kidding: Russia Threatens to Nuke Poland

    By Ripper on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 7:11pm |
    The U.S. agreement with Poland to place an anti-ballistic missile shield in that country makes Poland "100 percent" vulnerable to a Russian nuclear first strike, Russia's deputy chief of staff warned today.

    The completion of the missile-shield agreement between Warsaw and Washington came this week as the Bush administration sought leverage to force the Russian Army out of Georgia.

    The increasingly confrontational stand of both Russia and the U.S. risks re-igniting the Cold War and reversing 17 years of more stable relations between the two superpowers.

    In the event of a nuclear exchange, please remember to thank George Bush, Vladimir Putin and John McCain for an exceedingly bright, if brief, future.