Russia also cancels its missile plans near Poland

Russia will scrap a plan to deploy missiles near Poland because the U.S. no longer wants to place a missile-defense system in Eastern Europe, a Russian deputy defense minister said Saturday.
Obama's decision to scrap the plan was based largely on a new U.S. intelligence assessment that Iran's effort to build a nuclear-capable long-range missile would take three to five years longer than originally thought, U.S. officials said. The new U.S. missile-defense plan would rely on a network of sensors and interceptor missiles based at sea, on land and in the air as a bulwark against Iranian short- and medium-range missiles.

And Polish people agree that canceling the Bush missile system was a good thing. An opinion poll was taken and the survey, published in the daily Rzeczpospolita by polling firm GFK, showed 48 percent of Poles believed the decision was good for Poland, while 31 percent had the opposite view.