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Scott in Florida wrote:[color=blue]
>From the Wall Street Journal[/color]
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>BY MELANIE KIRKPATRICK
>Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:01 a.m. EDT[/color]
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>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.[/color]
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>Thaad's missile and its manufacturing production line were
>redesigned a few years ago with the help of Nascar, which
>brought its "modular mentality" to the job, the general says.
>"They can change a tire in less than a couple of seconds,
>they can fuel in less than a couple of seconds, they can
>replace body parts just like this." (These words are
>uttered with a bracing snap of the general's fingers.)[/color]

The second paragraph proves the general was speaking nonsense, or, more
likely, was forced to speak it by his political bosses, because NASCAR
had nothing to offer the missile defense program, except souvenir hats.
The general was obviously forced to make that statement as part of a
White House effort to gain political support for missile defense from
NASCAR fans, but I doubt the fans are stupid enough to fall for it.