The United States would continue to develop a missile defence shield until Iran abandoned its nuclear ambitions, President Barack Obama said in the Czech Republic.
by Toby Harnden and Bruno Waterfield
"As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defence system that is cost-effective and proven," he told a crowd of about 20,000 gathered in Hradcany Square, next to Prague Castle.
"Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat, not just to the United States, but to Iran's neighbours and our allies."
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Peacenik read this story. And re-read it. And re-read it. Peacenik can only shake Peacenik's head and wonder what in the bejezzus Obama is thinking. Obama wants to go ahead with a completely discredited, wildly expensive, missle shield that will not work. Obama talks about Iran like it is the old Soviet Union. The U.S. no longer can afford a pot to piss in yet it continues to spend like crazy on the military. Empires collapse. Empires deserve to collapse.
