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Peeking Past the Pall Put Over Arms Talks With Russia

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And we continue to develop new generation warfare. I'm not even going to mention systems against the missile-defense system!

No matter what we said to our American partners [to curb the production of weaponry] they refused to cooperate with us, they rejected our offers, and continue to do their own thing.

Some things I cannot tell you right now publicly, I think that would be rude of me.

And whether or not you believe me, we offered real solutions to stop this [arms race].

They rejected everything we had to offer.

4-MINUTE MARK

So here we are today - and they've placed their missile defense system in Romania.

Always saying "we must protect ourselves from the Iranian nuclear threat!"

Where's the threat?

There is no Iranian nuclear threat.

You even have an agreement with them - and the US was the instigator of this agreement, where we helped.

We supported it.

But if not for the US then this agreement would not exist - which I consider Obama's achievement.

I agree with the agreement, because it eased tensions in the area. So President Obama can put this in his list of achievements.

So the Iranian threat does not exist.

But the missile systems are continuing to be positioned "

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Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. He was an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then a CIA analyst for 27 years, and is now on the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). His (more...)
 
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