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It was one of the fastest turnarounds on record. For a year-and- a-half public opinion polls showed that less than half and at times as few as 30 percent of the Polish people supported putting a U.S. missile defense site in their country. Then Russian tanks rolled into the Republic of Georgia. Almost overnight the polls changed. In a survey after the Russian invasion 58 percent of Poles said they now favor U.S. missile defenses on Polish soil. Congress also should turn around and fully fund the missile defenses in Europe.
The Polish government, which had been haggling with Washington for months, acted quickly to sign an initial agreement with Undersecretary of State John Rood just two days after the Russian invasion. Then, less than a week later, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Warsaw signing the formal agreement.See the full content of this document
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Turnaround in Poland
For months the Polish government had been asking for billions of dollars in aid. But this was quickly forgotten when Russia invaded Georgia. Prime Minister Donald Tusk rationalized the turnaround by ...
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