Activate Missle defense system.... "Go"

[Waffle]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13361343/

this should be interesting to watch unfold.

[Masherbrum]

< unfolds a lawn chair > < reaches into the duct-tape ridden styrofoam cooler >

[Eagler]

another slick screwup we have to pay for years after the **** has left office ...

[weaselsan]

Originally posted by Waffle BAS
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13361343/

this should be interesting to watch unfold.

This is actually a good thing. By demonstrating their determination to develop a missile capable of reaching the continental US, it will accelerate our research and development on a missle defense shield. After the break up of the Soviet Union it became politically harder to earmark the funds necessary to put it on a fast track.

[sharp8th]

[dmf]

Originally posted by weaselsan
This is actually a good thing. By demonstrating their determination to develop a missile capable of reaching the continental US, it will accelerate our research and development on a missle defense shield. After the break up of the Soviet Union it became politically harder to earmark the funds necessary to put it on a fast track.

Lets see here, in the 1980's we had the soviet union that was "the enemy" turns out they weren't the enemy.
Now we have North Korea, and Iran, Iran wants nuclear power (maybe bombs) North Korea has a missile capeable of reaching the US. AND a nuclear bomb. Now what in the name of all thats holy can be good about the possible senerios?

[Hap]

i agree dmf.  

too much white bread, maybe?  

hap

[mars01]

Hey but at least Iraq is no longer a threat LOLHROTFFPAOMS:rofl

[Sandman]

Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction.  Some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since September the 11th.  But we know their true nature.  North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom.

Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror.  The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade.  This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens -- leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children.  This is a regime that agreed to international inspections -- then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world.

States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.  By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.  They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred.  They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States.  In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.

In the future, it's probably not a good idea to telegraph the punch.

Mmmmkay?

[Debonair]

Originally posted by Eagler
another slick screwup we have to pay for years after the **** has left office ...

you're a bit myopic with respect to who is to blame...




...!#*%$#*#$! Eisenhower!!!!!1

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Eagler
another slick screwup we have to pay for years after the **** has left office ...

Ok hotshot. Explain how this is Bush's fault?

Seems they were working on this even before the current dingbat took office
Compliments of ol (this desk is just perfect for an intern to kneel under) Billyboy and his wonderful foreign policy with NK

[Hangtime]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Ok hotshot. Explain how this is Bush's fault?

Seems they were working on this even before the current dingbat took office
Compliments of ol (this desk is just perfect for an intern to kneel under) Billyboy and his wonderful foreign policy with NK

nope. eagler was refering to 'have a cigar' Klintin.

[Maverick]

Nope, MacArthur wanted to nuke the Chinese not the NK's. We had the NK's beaten until the Chinese stepped in and the request to escalate by MacArthur was denied.

[Hangtime]

Rules 5 and 7

[Hangtime]

Originally posted by Maverick
Nope, MacArthur wanted to nuke the Chinese not the NK's. We had the NK's beaten until the Chinese stepped in and the request to escalate by MacArthur was denied.

Gotta look at history in Context. Mac was on the Yalu. North Korea was occupied.. effectively; no more North Korea. The Chinese, however hadn't said 'uncle' and mac had intel that the Chinese were massing on the other side of the  Yalu.

THATS when he asked for nukes.

Truman shoulda let him do it.