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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Neocon who wrote (216127)1/9/2002 3:30:10 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Your "what if" scenarios are getting worse and worse.
might well be .... if .... They may also have been ... What if a president, .... Had the September 11 attack been visited by ballistic missiles, resulting in the deaths of three to six million Americans,
This is the worst type of crapolla. What if terrorists kidnapped the Bush twins and demanded that Bush surrender the country? What if they planted anthrax in dog biscuits and tossed them to the presidential pooch? The what ifs can go on and be as far fetched as any imagination.

Now look at it's weak dismissives of the major objections.
But putting all this aside, as President Reagan's former science advisor William Graham points out, the difficulty of "hitting bullets with bullets" could be simply overcome by placing small nuclear charges on "hit-to-kill" vehicles as a "fail safe" for when they miss their targets. This would result in small nuclear explosions in space, but that is surely more acceptable than the alternative of enemy warheads detonating over American cities.
Imagine what small nuclear explosions in space are doing to the ability for our radar or even our pilots to see the next wave of incoming missles. The electromagnetic pulse would leave us blind for the duration of the engagement.

an enemy could launch a ballistic missile from a ship off our coasts, scuttle the ship, and leave us wondering, as on September 11, who was responsible.

A ship launched missle would be close, too close for the kind of bullet against bullet that they are talking about.

This article is the worst kind of alarmist potty filler and indicates a real grasping at straws by the conservative camp.
TP
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