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By: Moonage Political Webdream » North Korea launches missiles

Moonage Political Webdream » North Korea launches missiles — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:31:06 +0000

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By: Moonage Political Webdream

Moonage Political Webdream — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:38:39 +0000

North Korea launches missiles

North Korea fired probably four missiles today. As expected, the blog world is all over it: Expose the Left Stop The ACLU has lots of information I’m sure there’s a LOT more out there already. There’s already differing thoughts on

By: Moonage

Moonage — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:04:25 +0000

I think you’re flat out wrong. Here’s why
“President George W. Bush�s fiscal year 2007 budget request reaffirms his administration�s commitment to deploying an array of anti-missile systems, including to Europe , despite continuing uncertainty about whether they work. Submitted to Congress Feb. 6, the roughly $11.2 billion request for missile defenses is the largest ever by the Bush administration. ”

http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2006_03/MARCH-missiledefense.asp

That’s not per the White House or RNC, that’s the opinion of Arms Control Association. There’s a lot of detail in the article.

That’s how I do it.

By: Moonage

Moonage — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:23:17 +0000

You’re making a lot of assumptions with nothing to back any of it up. I don’t work that way.

Please elaborate.

By: mw

mw — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:12:58 +0000

“If we don’t have a functioning anti-missile defense system,we need to make that a #1 priority…. ”

As I recall, back before the 9/11, this was the top priority of the Bush administration in their first six months, and a differentiator in the 2000 debates. It was being promoted heavily and was what the administration was focused on, instead of what Richard Clarke was telling them to be focused on (OBL and terrorism).

The program probably could have been funded if Bush/Cheney had spent their positive political capital on it immediately after toppling the Taliban in Afganistan. It would have made sense too - with the “axis of evil” Iran and North Korea building nukes and missles. Money could have been spent that would have made us safer. Instead they squandered that political capital on Iraq, not to mention the $300 Billion of actual capital that has been flushed down that s***hole so far.

Congress shaved funds from the last Defense approprations bill in order to fund their domestic pork barrel earmarks. There is no money for anything else so this program has no chance, and you will never hear of it again from this administration in any meaningful way. - mw

By: Moonage

Moonage — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:33:13 +0000

Good point. However, I’m a little more optimistic than you are. The early tests were lousy and well publicized. The most recent have been much more successful and not publicized at all. That’s a story in itself. However, If we we blow it out of the sky, everyone knows. If we miss it, how would anyone know? ( Unless of course, someone leaked it in the name of “national security”. )

Bigger picture to me is nowadays almost every country with an inferiority complex is going after ICBMs. IF we don’t have a functioning anti-missile defense system, we need to make that a #1 priority.

By: mw

mw — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:21:10 +0000

Agreed. Of course, there is at least some probability that our limited missle defense system ( a grand total of 12 interceptors with limited testing) might not actually succeed in shooting an ICBM out of the sky. If that is the case, I’d prefer that the North Koreans not know.

In fact, I’d rather not know. - mw