Gee what a surprise, a missle system for a threat that doesn't exist...or didn't before Bush stole the office....
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/15/missile.d...e.ap/index.html
'Doc
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Shades of the Patriot missiles of Gulf War I, that never actually hit anything they were aimed at and even failed the preliminary tests badly! 
'Bina.
'Bina.
| QUOTE (BinaBecker @ Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 10:28 am) |
| Shades of the Patriot missiles of Gulf War I, that never actually hit anything they were aimed at and even failed the preliminary tests badly! 'Bina. |
Actually, one of them hit a Navy fighter - our Navy fighter.
http://www.borderlandnews.com/war/stories/...15-101182.shtml
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| A Patriot missile shot down a U.S. Navy warplane, killing the pilot, during combat operations on April 2 near Karbala in central Iraq, U.S. Central Command officials in Doha, Qatar, said on Monday. |
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| "Canada’s decision in principle to support the U.S. missile defense system is morally wrong," said Paul Hellyer, former minister of Defence and Leader of the Canadian Action Party. "It will be seen as affirmation of the Pentagon’s plan to impose U.S. ‘values and interests’ (the interests of the U.S. industrial-military complex) on a global basis." "Prime Minister Paul Martin and his ministers are deceiving Canadians when they speak of the system as one designed to protect North America," Hellyer added, "that was just the initial White House ‘spin’, comparable to the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ ruse used to justify the Iraq war." One has only to consult the Pentagon document "Rebuilding America’s Defenses", now better known as "A Plan for the New American Century", to find the truth. "Building an effective, robust, layered, global system of missile defenses is a pre-requisite for maintaining American pre-eminence," it says. "Unrestricted use of space has become a major strategic interest of the United States." Implementation will be assigned to a new service called "Space Command". Its mission will be "the ability to assure access to space, freedom of operation within the space medium, and an ability to deny others the use of space." Commenting on this Pentagon plan Hellyer said: "The multi-layered anti-missile system, of which the final step is to be the installation of weapons of mass destruction, will prove to be very unsettling to other powers and will inevitably contribute to a new arms race." "The U.S. plan for unilateral world dominance is totally contrary to Canadian multilateralism and we should not be part of it," Hellyer added, "and to suggest that a ‘seat at the table’ would give us some influence is total nonsense." "Canada should build up its own armed forces to be used for constructive purposes, rather than acting as a stamp of approval for unilateral U.S. militarism," he concluded. |
See? I rest my case. The anti-missile missile is DOA. Cut your losses and give it up.
Terrorists aren't going to bother lobbing missiles at anyone, anyway--why waste the money on that when it's so much cheaper just to train pilots to hijack planes and fly them into major buildings?
'Bina.
Terrorists aren't going to bother lobbing missiles at anyone, anyway--why waste the money on that when it's so much cheaper just to train pilots to hijack planes and fly them into major buildings?
'Bina.
| QUOTE (BinaBecker @ Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 10:52 am) |
| See? I rest my case. The anti-missile missile is DOA. Cut your losses and give it up. Terrorists aren't going to bother lobbing missiles at anyone, anyway--why waste the money on that when it's so much cheaper just to train pilots to hijack planes and fly them into major buildings? 'Bina. |
Because Bysh needs to pay back his buddies who had to wait 8 years to rob us blind...
Oh and let's not forget that this is not the first failure of these "weapon"...remember in the beginning of Shrub's administration how the "star wars" missles failed all test, except for one rigged one. So it was decided by Rummy not to show anymore tests success or failures....I hate these people.
'Doc
| QUOTE (Dr. Left @ Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 10:54 am) |
| Oh and let's not forget that this is not the first failure of these "weapon"...remember in the beginning of Shrub's administration how the "star wars" missles failed all test, except for one rigged one. So it was decided by Rummy not to show anymore tests success or failures....I hate these people. |
The whole project is a sham. These idiot conservatives think that draining billions of tax dollars, and assembling an unworkable system that gives the appearance of effectiveness, will scare Russia and China into submission. It's no different than Reagan outspending the Soviets into bankruptcy during the '80s.
One small problem with such a strategy. The Chinese have already proven that the system can be rendered totally ineffectual with the use of decoy warheads. They lob tens of thousands of these warhreads at us, the SDI shield can't differentiate between live and dummy targets, and several actual bombs make their way to the mainland.
And of course, let's not forget that the terrorists are laughing up their sleeves at all this. Osama has as much as said that his reason for doing what he does is so the Great Satan will end up bankrupt. And why not? He's an old CIA operative, who did just that to the Soviet Union, too.
America is looking more like the old USSR every day now: expensive crap abounds, bureaucracy is keeping things from getting done right, let alone at all; freedom is being choked off at the root, and the megalomaniacs on top don't give a rat's ass.
'Bina.
America is looking more like the old USSR every day now: expensive crap abounds, bureaucracy is keeping things from getting done right, let alone at all; freedom is being choked off at the root, and the megalomaniacs on top don't give a rat's ass.
'Bina.
| QUOTE (BinaBecker @ Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 11:27 am) |
| And of course, let's not forget that the terrorists are laughing up their sleeves at all this. Osama has as much as said that his reason for doing what he does is so the Great Satan will end up bankrupt. And why not? He's an old CIA operative, who did just that to the Soviet Union, too. America is looking more like the old USSR every day now: expensive crap abounds, bureaucracy is keeping things from getting done right, let alone at all; freedom is being choked off at the root, and the megalomaniacs on top don't give a rat's ass. 'Bina. |
Yup, they are going to break this country if this continues, then they will have their feudal system...I hate them, God do I ever hate them.
Doc
| QUOTE (BinaBecker @ Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 10:52 am) |
| Terrorists aren't going to bother lobbing missiles at anyone, anyway--why waste the money on that when it's so much cheaper just to train pilots to hijack planes and fly them into major buildings? |
The war on terror is another sham.
Remember what Tommy Thompson said two weeks ago?
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| For the life of me, I cannot understand why the terrorists have not attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do. We are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that. |
No shit, Tommy. That's something I cannot understand myself. Here's something else I cannot understand. Our ports are wide open. Our chemical facilities are unguarded. Air cargo passes uninspected. WHERE ARE THESE DAMN TERRORISTS ANYWAY? Get on the ball, Osama. Here we are. Come get us.
...hmmmm (*crickets*)
Maybe, just maybe, the terrorism threat is a hoax? Nah. What am I thinking.
| QUOTE (nvxplorer @ Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 11:37 am) |
| The war on terror is another sham. Remember what Tommy Thompson said two weeks ago? No shit, Tommy. That's something I cannot understand myself. Here's something else I cannot understand. Our ports are wide open. Our chemical facilities are unguarded. Air cargo passes uninspected. WHERE ARE THESE DAMN TERRORISTS ANYWAY? Get on the ball, Osama. Here we are. Come get us. ...hmmmm (*crickets*) Maybe, just maybe, the terrorism threat is a hoax? Nah. What am I thinking. |
Yup, exactly, it's the wolf that never appears, but is always screamed about....
'Doc
| QUOTE (Dr. Left @ Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 12:20 pm) |
| Yup, exactly, it's the wolf that never appears, but is always screamed about.... |
Yet, there are millions of goose-stepping automatons who think there are terrorists around every corner. I am ashamed of the gullibility of the American public.
| QUOTE (nvxplorer @ Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 12:25 pm) |
| Yet, there are millions of goose-stepping automatons who think there are terrorists around every corner. I am ashamed of the gullibility of the American public. |
Makes two of us, I just can't beleive how close we are to Nazism at this point....
Doc
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