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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (228035)	2/18/2002 12:36:38 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This post is another fine example of the arrogance of ignorance.... Iran, Iraq and N. Korea are diligently working toward developing weapons of mass destruction. its only a matter of time. TreasonPuddy says its better we let the research proceed and take them out once they have the technology, which they can then spread to others.... The Axis nations will have the technology eventually. Its unarguably best that we proceed with making a defense....The petty, partisan hatred of the demolib pinheads like TP is a major threat to us all.... JLA JLA

To: TigerPaw who wrote (228035)	2/18/2002 12:39:42 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

RE: In the mean time, secrecy insures that the tests don't even have to work. U.S. Missile Defense Engineers Score a Hit in a Missile Test Wednesday, January 30, 2002 Brit Hume And now the most absorbing two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine. It fell to a little-known Web site to report it first, but it appears that U.S. missile defense engineers have scored a hit in a test in which actually hitting a target was not even expected. Aviationnow.com says that missile defense agency engineers last Friday were testing a piece of navigation and control equipment. They took aim at a test target missile that was fired from a missile range facility on the Hawaiian Island of Kauai. The engineers fired their anti-missile missile from the USS Lake Erie, a ballistic missile test ship, not expecting to actually hit the target, but they hit it anyway, to their surprise.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (228035)	2/18/2002 12:51:23 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

One of your more naive posts, hardly worth responding to but somebody might afford it some credibility. Those axis-labelled countries do have missiles, and they're getting better ones all the time. A suicidal despotic regime is not hard to imagine after 911. Perhaps more importantly, it doesn't even have to be a country in order to launch a missile; it might be al Qaeda or another terrorist organization, firing from a remote jungle somewhere. Retaliation isn't a deterrent if OBL or an NGO can launch a missile from a remote location. The "hiding" of a missile launch doesn't seem to relate to anything, since it's after the fact and too late, but if it's so easy to detect, why don't we even know where all of Saddam's scuds are? You clearly seem willing to put NY, DC, LA, SF, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Dallas, and/or every other major city at risk to the next bin Laden who has enough money to buy a missile from a rogue nation.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (228035)	2/18/2002 4:12:27 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Dear Tiger Paw: Give the matter some more thought. What if the country is ruled by Despotic rulers whom the people have no control over. Will you suggest wiping out those innocent people over the Despots hit on LA because we refused some form of blackmail? My recommendation is give our leaders some room to work, also, have a little trust that the best brains in our nation are doing what they believe is right and developing what they think will work. jdn