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Pentagon to beef up missile defense in response to North Korean threat, sources say
Fox News ^
| March 14, 2013
| Justin Fishel
Posted on 03/14/2013 7:14:31 PM PDT by gusopol3
The Pentagon is beefing up the nations missile defense in the wake of provocative nuclear threats from North Korea and is set to deploy 14 additional ground-based interceptors at missile silos in Alaska and California, congressional and U.S. officials tell Fox News.
An Obama administration official tells Fox News that the increase in interceptors is a logical response to an evolving threat from North Korea and that anyone who suggests we should have stayed the course with the Bush administrations plan is engaging in Monday morning quarterbacking.
Whether intentional or not, the announcement also coincides with 30th anniversary of President Ronald Reagans Strategic Defense Initiative speech. The nations first ground-based interceptors were set up in 2002 under President George W. Bush.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abm; northkorea
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What Reagan foresaw thirty years ago, Obama missed until the day before yesterday.
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:14:31 PM PDT
by
gusopol3
To: gusopol3
Missile defense? That’ll never work.
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:15:36 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: gusopol3
Thank you, Ronny Ray Gun, where ever you are .
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:16:42 PM PDT
by
rdcbn
To: gusopol3
Clinton should have wiped out the NK capability back in the mid-nineties. A golden opportunity wasted.
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:18:15 PM PDT
by
rbg81
To: gusopol3
Just let the Norks know that most of our subs have them targeted.That’s enough firepower to vaporize their third rate country.
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:18:37 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: gusopol3
bozo was for it before he was against it but now for it.
correct me if I am wrong but did bozo go to Europe and tell Poland and Czech that they were scrapping that idea to suit Russia and it pissed them off?
Much like he gave Russia the UK nuclear sumb secrets of whch he knew
Actually obama has been a cluster @@ck around this world and they said Bush was not respected
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:19:56 PM PDT
by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: Farmer Dean
see no reason why we have any soldiers there, because they willnot do much if NK attacked but why not have the Navy and Airforce target them in a safer place
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:20:51 PM PDT
by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: rdcbn
He's in here...
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:21:06 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: gusopol3
Obama doesn’t believe in Missile Defense....Just ask Russia...
To: rbg81
He was too busy stuffing his pockets with their bribes.
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:21:54 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: gusopol3
Always tell the enemy what your plans are. /s
To: rbg81
But Madeline got to dance with Kim....so it was all worth it.
To: gusopol3
14 additional ground-based interceptors at missile silos in Alaska and California Is the idea that these launch sites can cover Oregon and Washington or they don't rate defense?
And Hawaii has its own? Ship mounted?
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:25:45 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:27:46 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: gusopol3
I thought the Pentagram was out of money?
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:27:55 PM PDT
by
logitech
(Who's here so vile, that will not love his country? If any speak, for him I have offended)
To: logitech
Out of money for US national security; this is to defend the caliphate.
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:29:02 PM PDT
by
gusopol3
To: manc
Like Creech AFB, NV ...
... and get a MOH
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:34:03 PM PDT
by
shove_it
(Long ago Huxley, Orwell and Rand warned us about 0banana's USA.)
To: shove_it
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:34:51 PM PDT
by
manc
(Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
To: gusopol3
“Out of money for US national security; this is to defend the caliphate.”
I’d laugh, but the truth makes me sick to my stomach.
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:35:58 PM PDT
by
logitech
(Who's here so vile, that will not love his country? If any speak, for him I have offended)
To: gusopol3
God bless Ronald Reagan...
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posted on
03/14/2013 7:38:52 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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