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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (384262)	4/2/2003 3:32:17 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Now who's living in a dream? LOW (Launch On Warning) tech has been "on-the-shelf" for YEARS. We have refrained from deploying it because the same clowns who dreamed up the UN thought it was an "aggressive, first-strike" system. That has been rendered into liquid bullshit by history. The cruisers are being designed for LOW, and that is the only real waiting period. The first LOW cruiser will launch sometime in the second Bush administration. Since a large # of ships will be needed, the "fully deployed" (i.e., one that could be effective against a MAJOR nuclear power, though WE are the only one left) is estimated at about 10 to 11 years, but partial deployment will be much sooner. The partial system will be just fine against pain-in-the-ass small-time nuclear nutbags like Kim Il Jung. The full system, in which LOW is only the first layer, spreads out for as much as two decades. That's the development-stage estimate, though, and assumes NO innovation or breakthroughs. The history of the 20th century shows that such an estimate is ALWAYS the least likely. The KGB-promoted argument that SDI is a "dream" or "sci-fi" has been loved and used by the Marxist/Leninist anti-American left since Reagan's 1983 speech announcing initial R & D. Like all of the domestic enemy's propaganda-from the Social Security "trust fund" to "Everybody does it"-the words are out-of-date, and the obscene ideas are transparently debunked...