They were.
Hope you are right but reading the cable it sounds like those politicians were simply overruled...
In a way this cable will embarrass some of the western European countries and hopefully more emphasis will be given to the "new" members...
This summarizes it pretty well:
"...The Poles and the Baltic states have long argued that rhetorical declarations of commitment to article 5 are meaningless without concrete defence planning to back them up.
The Baltic demands for hard security guarantees became much more desperate in the past three years.
A cyber-attack on Estonia in 2007 was believed to have originated in Russia, and the Kremlin invaded Georgia a year later.
Nerves were further set on edge last year when the Russians staged exercises simulating an invasion of the Baltic states and a nuclear attack on Poland.
The eastern European calls for hard security guarantees, however, were stymied by western Europe, led by Germany, which did not want to antagonise Russia."We've found the way forward with Russia. The Baltic states have received strategic reassurance," said a well-placed source. "That's backed up with contingency planning that did not exist before. It's done now. We told them we'll give you your reassurance if you agree to the reset with Russia. That made it easier for the Germans."During intense – if discreet – diplomacy last year,
the resistance was overcome by the Americans, and the new policy was tabled as a joint US-German move..."Shame on you Germany and the other western European pansies (politicians, not the people)
ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL!
-> NOT Russian oil for some and no one for all! :( <-