A top Russian general said Friday that Poland's agreement to accept a U.S. missile interceptor base exposes the ex-communist nation to attack, possibly by nuclear weapons, the Interfax news agency reported.

The Bush administration is acting very provocatively toward Russia. These policies are so astonishingly stupid that only the neocons could have come up with them. There seems little doubt that it was the U.S. that disrupted the status quo re South Ossetia, which had enjoyed a de facto independence since 1992. How many wars does Cheney want?