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  • Rude Awakening to Missile-Defense Dream

    01/05/2005 7:55:15 AM PST · by 1LongTimeLurker · 107 replies · 2,487+ views
    Christian Science Monitor ^ | 1/04/05 | Scott Ritter
    DELMAR, N.Y. – On Christmas Eve 2004, the Russian Strategic Missile Force test fired an advanced SS-27 Topol-M road-mobile intercontinental ballistic Missile (ICBM). This test probably invalidated the entire premise and technology used in the National Missile Defense (NMD) system currently being developed and deployed by the Bush administration, and at the same time called into question the validity of the administration's entire approach to arms control and disarmament. From 1988 to 1990, I served as one of the American weapons inspectors at the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant in Russia, where the SS-27 and its predecessor, the SS-25, were assembled....
  • There's something big coming in this city (Chris Matthews)

    10/19/2005 2:12:53 PM PDT · by blogblogginaway · 222 replies · 9,371+ views
    MSNBC ^ | oct. 19, 2005 | MSNBC
    'Hardball' host Chris Matthews discussed the latest in the Plame leak case with MSNBC's Amy Robach on Wednesday morning. Here's an excerpt of what he had to say: ...............If there are indictments, they're going to be probably in the vice president's office, they're probably going to come next week and they are going to blow this White House apart. It's going to be unbelievable. I think the people watching right now who are voters better start paying attention to this issue. It's not just about whether somebody's name was leaked, it's about whether we went to war under false pretenses...