Posted on 09/28/2007 2:55:07 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
VANDENBERG AFB, Calif., Sept 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org/, was at Vandenberg AFB to view the ground-based interceptor launch from the Ronald Reagan Missile Defense site on Vandenberg AFB, CA and got to witness the successful intercept by one of our nation's ground-based interceptor missile (GBI) deployed there against a threat-representative long range target missile launched from Kodiak, Alaska. Ellison's overall appraisal of the test was characterized as "an overwhelming success with the 7th intercept of this system gives our nation and our public great confidence that our military has the capability to protect our population, territory and homeland from long range missiles." Ellison said "The remarkable technical feat demonstrated today for the 7th time clearly gives our country security and reassurance that the current 23 Ground Based Interceptors deployed in California and Alaska can and will protect our public from long-range ballistic missiles.
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We just need another 15,000 or so spread around the border to truly be safe from ICBMs.
Pro-active policy towards stopping rouge nations from obtaining missiles is the best way.
But failing that, if my city has an incoming warhead, and there is a 1 in 100 chance an interceptor will work.
Hell yeah, give me that chance!
What worries me the most about the libs is that this missile technology may end up in the wrong hands if it were up to them. Libs and globalists are of the opinion that all technology should be shared.
I agree wholeheartedly.
It was nice day for a missile shoot. From my perch on top of the mountain overlooking the pacific, you couldn’t ask for a better flight test.
“We just need another 15,000 or so spread around the border to truly be safe from ICBMs.”
Nope. Even the Star Wars profiteers can’t say the Russians and Chinese can’t depoloy simple decoy systems to avoid “star wars”, let alone use cruise missiles.
It’s a scam, a repeat of the 1980’s boondoggle. But this time it’s to fight imaginary warheads from imaginery missiles.
Decoys don’t move like the real thing.
Outstanding intercept!
Of course, the lefties have recently switched their argument from “won’t work” over to “missile defenses placed in Poland would stop a Russian or Iranian attack on the U.S., thereby destabilizing the world.”
Listen to me now, and believe me later when I tell you we have the ability to differentiate between a true RV threat and a decoy.
Funny thing is,
If it was ineffective,
Why do our enemies and less then allies get so upset about it! LOL
BTTT!
“Decoys don’t move like the real thing.”
Yeah, so the Russians and Chinese (probably us too) just toggle the warhead to look like all the others.
Done deal.
That’s typical of the left in this country. Anything that’s good and makes our country strong and safe is no good in their view. They hate this country with a desire to live under totalitarianism. I say this is money well spent. I thought communism died when the wall came down. Boy I was wrong.
This is what the Clintons held back for their eight years in the White House...
A step forward and a move in the right direction via sensibility.
Too bad the Dims will cutthat program out in the budget.
This is an inadvertently funny typo, since we are primarily interested in stopping the reds from getting us!
Because it is a loss of money transfer to them via the U.N. via our sovereign concerns.
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