Did White House coordinate missile decision with Kremlin?
Opinia.US SAN FRANCISCO — Bloggers and Russian experts in the US have been trying to find out whether the Obama White House coordinated with the Kremlin the timing of the missile shield decision that deeply offended people in Poland and produced biting commentaries in the US. Speculations abound that Russian diplomats, working on instructions from propaganda experts within the Kremlin, tricked White House and State Department officials to get President Obama to choose September 17 to announce his cancellation of the Bush plan to build missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. September 17, 2009 was the date of the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland at the beginning of WWII. Many US and international commentators condemned and ridiculed the timing of the announcement, and the decision itself, as undermining US credibility and security of US allies, even if some of them agreed that on purely technical merits it may have been a right move. A number of influe
