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To: stockman_scott who wrote (45497)	9/20/2002 4:13:19 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Even Bush says Saddam MIGHT POSSESS the bomb in the future. Even he knows Saddam doesn't have it now.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (45497)	9/20/2002 4:14:11 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Vandenberg missile launch provides spectacular light show Thursday, September 19, 2002 -(09-19) 21:52 PDT VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) -- The test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from this coastal California base provided a spectacular light show over much of the western United States on Thursday. The missile, part of the Force Development Evaluation Program, blasted off at 7:36 p.m. and the colorful contrail it left behind could be seen from one end of California to the other, in Arizona, across much of Nevada and as far away as Utah and New Mexico. "A bright light shot into the sky like a meteorite, then it slowed down and suddenly blasted with a loud boom," said Simon Cox, who saw it from a restaurant terrace in Santa Barbara. "The smoke went up in spirals as the sun was setting and turned into an orange, amber color. It was like a flower going into bloom pretty quickly." The three-stage, solid-fueled missile was blasted out of an underground silo located on the military base about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. It traveled about 4,200 miles in about 30 minutes, striking a predetermined target at the Kwajalein Missile Range in the western chain of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. "The missile hit on target at the designated time," said Vandenberg spokeswoman Kelly Gabel. She said perfect weather conditions were responsible for the spectacular light show and so many people seeing it. "We do this two or three times a year, but because the weather was so perfect we decided to launch it early," Gabel said. As a result, people were still awake to see it, and although the sun had set over the western United States, sunset was recent enough that sunlight below the horizon glinted off unspent fuel particles and water droplets. "Suddenly we're getting calls from people as far away as New Mexico who saw it and want to know what it is," Gabel said. The mission was directed by the 576th Flight Test Squadron at Vandenberg and the 341th Space Wing and the 341st Space Wing, from Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. The Force Development Evaluation Program's mission is to test missile launching systems and make missiles more accurate and reliable.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (45497)	9/20/2002 5:44:51 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

An absolutely stupid article. Maybe we should all give up our computers too. And free speech. And everything else our potential enemies might lack that gives us any possible advantage...military, cultural, or otherwise.

To: stockman_scott who wrote (45497)	9/20/2002 8:22:37 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Scheer and Rall are standing illustrations why the anti-war left is getting no traction. No argument is too improbable for them to advance it with a straight face, and if that fails, just make up numbers. Saddam has no WMDs! Ritter says so, and he must know! How? I guess the angel Gabriel descended to tell him, because he has no other sources for the last three years. Bombing is immoral! We killed 40,000 Taliban (says who? at least he's stopped repeating the false 4,000 civilians number) Nevermind that we now have the most accurate bombs in history, to be moral we have to send our soldiers in to get killed in equal numbers with Iraqis. Let's all studiously ignore any part of Saddam's actual behavior for the last ten years, or his probable behavior for the next ten years; that's totally irrelevant.