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To: American Spirit who wrote (159403)	1/30/2003 8:59:27 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585108

North Korea has no ICBM's. Can't you see that these systems take decades to build? In decades, NK will MOST CERTAINLY have missles capable of hitting targets in our country. What if it never works? I heard these questions in the 80s. And the liberals all lined up about how infeasible it was. Carl Sagan came on Nightline and told us how such a project could NEVER be done. The technology doesn't exist and can never exist, is totally beyond the limitations of physics. This was a few short years after I built my first homebrew computer. In the ten preceding years I had seen sufficient change to realize these nitwits were blowing smoke. In '91 we saw the Gulf War. Patriot missles (an outgrowth of late-70s technology combined with SDI software systems) -- only partially effective -- but they certainly did take out a few scuds -- and for all we know, they were scuds carrying bio/chem weapons. Now, these things were pressed into service before their time, but we'll never know how many lives were saved. Today, we have much more sophisticated systems in which a lot of people are placing their confidence. The bottom line is, it doesn't matter how much it costs. We have the money to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. Liberals place national defense way, way down on their priority lists (thus, the gutting of our military over the two previous presidential terms). Don't you think it is time for the liberals to begin eating some crow over SDI? If nothing else, its deployment will provide reason for NK to think twice about investing the money in missles that will reach us. If that happens, SDI will have served at least one purpose.

To: American Spirit who wrote (159403)	1/30/2003 9:12:25 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1585108

and there is no clear target for it. North Korea has no ICBM's. China and Russia have ICBMs. North Korea has missiles that could reach much of Asia and we need missile defenses to shoot them down if they are used and also NK is working on longer ranged missiles. Other countries are developing the technology as well. I imagine that should I live a full life there could well be dozens of countries with ICBMs or rockets that could be used as ICBMs (even if they where built as space launch vehicles) and dozens of more that would have the ability to make them if they really cared to. Tim