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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (179831)9/12/2001 11:27:31 AM
From: DOUG H  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
What I believe about missile defense is that it will cost billions of dollars is imo very unlikely to work in real life, since it could be overwhelmed by decoys.

Why would someone be firing "decoys" at us? To try deflect attention from an actual ICBM? I think US engineers are good enough to build a system that contemplates decoys.

Nor has scientific evidence to date been at all reassuring on that score. If somebody showed me evidence that the system could work in the battlefield I would feel differently. So far all the tests have been unbelievably canned, and even so, most of them have failed.

The same was said of the Wright Brothers.
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