[LS]

And do you wonder why no one is concerned? It is because we don't CARE what they do with these because it allows us to march ahead with SDI. The goal here, my friend, is not to disarm anyone, because that never works. It is to get out of the entangling alliances that prevented us from using SDI. The Moscow Treaty will, however, probably result in overall reductions.

Tell me, did you have the same hysterical reaction when Reagan and Gorby got rid of SS-20s? I know they were destroyed, because I have a friend who served on the commission that physically cut them up!

[Paul Ross]

Tell me, did you have the same hysterical reaction when Reagan and Gorby got rid of SS-20s? I know they were destroyed, because I have a friend who served on the commission that physically cut them up!

Well guess what. You are forgetting that Reagan said 'trust but verify.' Apparently you and your friend...and the whole freakin' country post-Reagan were hoodwinked by the Soviets...and the successor Russian govt. Tell me, did the Russian Army Rocket Corps. ever get disciplined for perpetuating their 'disinformatzia' when the the 77 HIDDEN, ILLEGAL SS-20s where discovered in the mid-90's in Czechoslovakia [ which was more than they were ever supposed to have BTW ]??? And did your friend tell us about the egg on his and the disarmers face? And the fraud was not discovered by the Standing Consultative Commission, or our overly-vaunted 'Technical Means of Intelligence'...but by the Czechs themselves. And then there were the illegal SS-20 missiles in Poland.... And we never needed Russian approval for the departure from the ABM Treaty...they were already in undisputable, undeniable, VIOLATION. The illegal battle control radars. The NUCLEAR-ARMED hyper-speed SAMs. And as far as proliferating or de-proliferating, their most current statements make it clear they were going to do whatever it is they are doing anyways....and the ABM treaty departure is...and always was...for them just a pretext.

And frankly, as far as SDI goes. Yes, by all means deploy. Deploy Brilliant Pebbles. Deploy Excalibur. Deploy 'Aegis NMD Forward'. But what do we actually see GWB doing? Deploying the horribly anemic and wasteful CLINTON plan up in Alaska???! Cancelling Standard Mark 3? [ The nearest term ABM-capable component of Aegis ...over an alleged price-overrun??? ]

Or could it be that for GWB NMD is just political window-dressing to lock up the 'National Security Vote.' Far-fetched? Oh really. Just look at the games that GWB/Karl Rove have been playing with Vieques. Or with border security. Explain that in purely national security terms. You can't. And neither can they.