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Re: OT Never Trust Dimocrats with your safety!
"Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant@mindspring.net> wrote in message
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> From the Wall Street Journal
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> Proof positive that you can NEVER trust your safety to a Dimocrat!
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> Star Warrior
> If Reagan had his way on SDI, threats from North Korea and Iran would
> loom smaller today.
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> BY MELANIE KIRKPATRICK
> Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT
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> ARLINGTON, Va.--In his 1983 "Star Wars" speech, Ronald Reagan famously
> asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge . . .
> that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles
> before they reached our own soil?"
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> Fast forward to this summer. On July 4 North Korea test-fired a
> long-range ballistic missile believed capable of reaching the
> continental U.S. The launch was a flop--the Taepodong 2 fizzled before
> it got off the ground--but to echo Reagan's question, what if? What
> would have happened if Pyongyang's missile had been heading toward Los
> Angeles? Could we have shot it down? "I'm confident that we could
> have," states Lt. Gen. Henry "Trey" Obering III, director of the
> Missile Defense Agency. "If that missile had proceeded to threaten
> Hawaii or the continental United States, then we would have had the
> ability to shoot it down. I'm confident the system would have worked."
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Confident the system would have worked? They have to rig each test to get a
"success."
And, why would NK fire a missile at Los Angeles? Considering our other
capabilities, that would be an act of suicide.
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