[airborne]

But that can't be!

Bush took his eye off the ... was distracted by ... quagmire!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pontiac]

Meanwhile, Yoritaka Hanashiro, head of the executive office of Gov. Keiichi Inamine, expressed the office's displeasure, saying the U.S. government had not given a sufficient reason to the public for the missile defense system's deployment in the prefecture.

Hasn’t North Korea done that sufficiently well for us this past year?

What is it they don’t get anyway this is a purely defensive weapon.

I guess it’s the US Army they don’t like.

[GOPJ]

ping

[GOPJ]

U.S. forces transferred Wednesday what is believed to be missiles for a U.S.-led missile defense system from a freighter in Urama, Okinawa, to the U.S. Air Force Kadena Ammunition Storage Area in the prefecture.

On Wednesday morning, U.S. service members and other workers unloaded the cargo, which arrived Monday, after police cleared the route of civic groups that had blocked the road in protest of the deployment of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor system.

The United States plans to begin partial operation of the PAC-3 system at the U.S. Kadena Air Base and the Kadena Ammunition Storage Area by the end of December, deploying all 24 missiles in the system, according to the U.S. military.

FYI

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Japan ping.

[nopardons]

This is good news.

[Spruce]

My first-born is stationed at Kadena.

[El Gato]

civic groups that had blocked the road in protest of the deployment of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor system.

Read "usual left wing loonies" for "civic groups".Sort the Okinawan version of ANSWR and Code Pink.