U.S. missile defence test hailed a success as North Korea tensions rise

mailonline ^ | 7/31/09 | unknown

[jdfromny]

The latest US missile defence test, conducted last night in Hawaii waters, was deemed a success as tensions continue with North Korea over that country's missile programme. A short-range ballistic missile was fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai and then was shot down by a three-stage interceptor missile from a destroyer, the USS Hopper. The test, conducted by the Navy and the Department of Defense's Missile Defence Agency, marked the 23rd firing by ships equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile defense system. With the latest test, there have been 19 successes, including the shooting down of a dead US spy satellite last year.

[jdfromny]

Obama finishes the "dreaded" missile defense system so that future socialists can use it against us, just like FDR did with nukes...

Oh, and didn't they tell us it would never work?

[Doe Eyes]

Oh, and didn't they tell us it would never work?

I thought that was a spaced based system that would defeat all incoming Soviet missiles simultaneously.

[concerned about politics]

I thought the democrats wanted this defunded. Now, you'd think it was invented- along with the Internet- by their beloved Al Gore (D).

(Thank you for our missile defense, President Ronald Reagan (R).)

[jdfromny]

Hmmm

Now that you mention it, I believe you’re right. Boy, did I step in it!

But hey, isn’t he proliferating a new weapons system nonetheless?

Believe me. They will one day somehow try to make the sheep feel guilty over this somehow. They always do...

[jdfromny]

Somehow! Somehow!

(Too many beers)

[Always Right]

That kookie Reagan dude thinking you could shoot missiles out of the sky. What an idiot that guy was. No vision what so ever...

[RDTF]

Yay Aegis BMD!

[SunkenCiv]

A short-range ballistic missile was fired from the Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai and then was shot down by a three-stage interceptor missile from a destroyer, the USS Hopper.

[Zhang Fei]

That kookie Reagan dude thinking you could shoot missiles out of the sky. What an idiot that guy was. No vision what so ever...

From NRO:

As recently as 1999, when Congress was considering funding for missile defense, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D., OR) once again invoked the old George Lucas imagery to debunk the idea. “Like the movie, this is a phantom solution — hitting a bullet with a bullet in outer space.”

[constitutiongirl]

All I can say is..OUR MILITARY ROCKS!!!!!!!

[imjimbo]

Agree wholeheartedly-! And LOVE your tagline! Jackson also rocks-! Visit his house in Lexington, VA when you get the chance.

[constitutiongirl]

Everytime I read an article like this, it reminds me how blessed I am to have been born here!! I love General Jackson and I’ve visited his birthplace 3x. I’ve always had something akin to a crush on him.:)

[rlmorel]

"...from a destroyer, the USS Hopper..."

Ya GOTTA love it!

[guitarplayer1953]

Didn't that happen a Gettysburg? Seems like I saw pictures of bullets and cannon balls that had collided in air.

[Chode]

AKA the USS Nano-Second...

BravoZulu USS Hopper!!!

[rlmorel]

Yes...she spoke at my college graduation. What a gracious, personable lady she was, full of humor and personality. You can see it in the picture!

[Redbob]

You’d think, with N. Korea throwing missiles about, that Hawaiians would start voting Republican, wouldn’t you?
lol

[AmericanInTokyo]

Not when you poll them, and there answer is “Hey, what dis “North Korea”, bruddah?”

[happinesswithoutpeace]

pinged ya

[NYFreeper]

Yeah, this is the "unproven" missile defense system that 0bama canceled.

IDIOT!