Is Bush Trying to Start another Cold War?
by Jeff Davis
Remember the famous ending scene in the movie Fail Safe, where Slim Pickens rides the atomic bomb down into a target in Russia yelling “Yee-Haw!” and waving his cowboy hat? Well, thanks to Dubya’s incompetent bungling or deliberate insults, we may be about to get a blast from the past, quite literally.
The Daily Telegraph of London reports: “As Condoleezza Rice arrived in Georgia to finalise a peace deal and secure the withdrawal of Russian troops from the former Soviet state, Moscow issued the direct threat to another US ally. ‘Poland is making itself a target. This is 100 percent certain,’ Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted General Anatoly Nogovitsyn as saying. ‘It becomes a target for attack. Such targets are destroyed as a first priority,’” Poland recently joined NATO and is making noises about allowing the Americans to put nuclear missiles on their territory, right across from the Russian border and within ballistic “spitting distance” of St. Petersburg and Moscow. (more…)