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US Missile Defense Test Fails
KingRobot sends news that a recent test of a US missile defense system has failed. The test of the Groundbased Midcourse Defense interceptor apparently had a problem with the sea-based X-band radar. Both the target missile, launched from the Pacific, and the interceptor, launched from California, performed as expected. "Yesterday's test was intended to quell doubters of the entire missile-defense approach, with the target missile deploying countermeasures. Critics of the GMD programme say that tests thus far, which have not included such spoilers, have been too kind to the intercept tech. The [military] isn't disclosing whether the intercepting kill vehicle had simply failed to reach the 'threat cluster' of warhead(s) and decoys, or whether it had reached the cluster but hit a countermeasure rather than the actual target."
Those madmen wouldn't ever do anything, it doesn't matter if we have missile defense tech or not.
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I don't want to live in a world where the US can threaten nuclear attack knowing that it can't be retaliated against.
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American Companies were supplying the Nazis throughout the war. America had ample forewarning about Pearl harbor and could have prevented it. America also lied about the attacks on the ships that started the Vietnam war. As for Japan - they were already finished by the time USA dropped the bombs. Everyone on the inside knew that, but the USA went ahead and murdered countless innocent civilians anyway.
So who's the real pig in the fairy tale with mad men running the show here?
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Uhhhh - which of those madmen has a missile that can reach the continental US? Kim il can't keep his dong up, and the Arabs don't even have a dong. (and now you know why they enjoy blowing themselves up among women and children - it's the only way they can get their DNA NEAR a woman!)
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A couple of things. First, one must consider that "countless" innocent civilians were NOT killed by the two atomic bombs. About 240,000 total was the count (over a period of several months - the immediate casualties of the bombs were closer to 150,000).
Yeah, you guys are so compassionate, ONLY killing 240,000 innocent people. I don't care what bullshit number you compare that with. I don't care how many people died in total. Those were 240,000 people that didn't have to die, but did because you wanted to show off your new toy. You make it sound like it's nothing, yet you shit cows when 3,000 people died in 9/11.
I don't understand why people keep claiming nukes are so bad and so horrible and anyone that tries to use it is evil, yet you justify your own use of it. You can't have it both ways. Either using nukes are bad, or they are great deterrents for countries like Iran and N. Korea to use against hostile nations.
I can't wait until the shoe is on the other foot and someone drops a nuke on your city, killing hundreds of thousands, and tries to justify it by saying it ended a war early. I hope you survive to see it. Hey, maybe if Iraq had dropped their fictitious nukes on us, it may have prevented us from spending so much time and money in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Eh, the only cities that the short little fucker over to the west could reach which would be worthwhile would be in California, or possibly Vegas. So I say let him. Leftist population control and object lesson why the leftists were wrong on this issue, all rolled into one. Iran won't get that far because the Israelis WILL take that fucker out if necessary.