Comments on: Under the Radar, Dems Inexplicably Block Missile Defense (Updated)

By: Mike51

Mike51 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:24:32 +0000

Doesn’t any of you realize that Congress and all of the legislatures don’t work for the people any more (if they really ever did). They all work in conjunction with the President and the Federal Reserve for the New World Order. Our government is just using the activities of Congress and the House of Representatives as a ruse to ruin and destroy the United States as a sovereign nation, and financially bankrupt our people by using the Federal Reserve in conjunction with the Council on Foreign Relations to disperse our money to foreign nations and force the American Taxpayer to pay for these so called loans by forgiving the loans made to foreign nations but still expecting the American people to pay for the money loaned out by the Federal Reserve.

By: SteveB/Colorado

SteveB/Colorado — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:36:24 +0000

#60 Linda Rivera” “Treasonous Democrats are determined……” How is it treason to defer spending more money on weapons systems that don’t work? Guess you didn’t check out some prior posts.

By: Linda Rivera

Linda Rivera — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:26:27 +0000

Soon to be nuclear, Iran has threatened repeatedly to DESTROY America. North Korea (and other countries) share the same all-consuming hate for America. Treasonous Democrats are determined to make sure our enemies succeed.

God help America.

By: SteveB/Colorado

SteveB/Colorado — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:47:52 +0000

Well, this thread contains the usual anti-Obama, anti-Dem, anti-liberal rhetoric that we all know and love. None of it is sufficient to conceal the fact that Ms. Rubin did a poor job of research. Comments by Dennis (#48, 49); Daniel (#53); Demmy (#54) are much closer to reality.

One can find interesting commentary on this web site: http://www.cdi.org/programs. Check out the item: “Pentagon Officials Point Out Flaws in Missile Defense Programs.” Here are comments from Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, executive director of the Missile Defense Agency.
“Thirty operational GBIs (ground based interceptors) will provide the US with a substantial inventory of operational interceptors considering the limited number of ICBM launch complexes in North Korea & Iran and the long development time required for additional launch complexes.” In short, what we already have is sufficient to counter any short term and longer term missile threats from North Korea or Iran.

Further comment from a CDI analyst: “propping up an expensive system that lacks operational viability will not counter the threat of terrorism & insurgency.” The fact that missile defense has been proposed and tested for over 25 years and still doesn’t work…..cutting it back is more than just “bean counting,” as suggested by Ms. Rubin.

#43 Roger Welcome: I voted for McCain.

#52 Patrick Keegan: “….launched from a tramp steamer in mid-Atlantic….” For that scenario, I’d rather pay a few million for good intel rather than billions for missile defense that doesn’t work. But hopefully better intel than the intel saying there were WMDs in Iraq in 2003.

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:30:09 +0000

Well, then; If this is true, the movement in the Pacific to thwart Koreas missiles is only symbolic. There won’t be enough money to carry out the plan. Our enemies are going to laugh their asses off.

By: GlennO

GlennO — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:22:11 +0000

When all reasoning fails, refer back to the obvious.

Obama/Dems are dropping our defenses and making us defenseless against ballistic missile attack.

They wish us to be hit? How could they increase their power thru such a craven intrigue?

Who has that capability to partner up with them?

The movie “Goldfinger” is very instructive in this respect. He was not going to empty Fort Knox, he was going to make the gold supply of the US and most of the world radioactive and useless for a century – and enrich the value of his holdings, safely stored elsewhere.

Now, who wishes to complete the narrative of “what if”?

By: Blackwater

Blackwater — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:42:08 +0000

You have to understand the mindset of a truely left wing ideologue. I can tell you what this stems from because I used to be one. Leftists, especially from the Cold War days, think missile defense like Reagan’s “Star Wars” programs is provactive and only escalates the problem. They think it will lead to more and more deadly nuclear weapons which will be designed to bypass our missile defenses. So therefore they see it as a waste of money and energy and saber rattling to the whole world which will only incrase the likleyhood of attack. It’s a crazy worldview that developed in the 70s and 80s and became the major talking points of the left to attack Reagan and spending on national security. Also the left is EXTREMELY anti-military. They think soldiers are violent lizard brained Nazis who are too stupid to have a career outside of the military. And think spending hundreds of billions of dollars on bombs, tanks and guns is grotesque and counter-productive to establishing world peace. See, they see AMERICA as the evil violent power in the world. And our soldiers are the true killers. We should be spending all this money on researching ways to prevent war. That’s just they think. It’s this kind of naive idealism that’s almost laughable if it wasn’t so dangerous. They have too much faith in the international community. They think the world will be peaceful and prosperous if only we minded our own business and stopped trying to police the world. And Obama seems to have come of age during the peek of this madness in the 80s. He surrounded himself around these leftist activists and intellectuals and is convinced that missile defense is dangerous for US and counter-productive to his goal of getting rid of all nuclear weapons in the world. Pray to God they’re right and no nut or empire fires a nuke at us. Because if they do it’s all over.

By: JesusHumper

JesusHumper — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:38:50 +0000

Ha Ha!! What the hell is this site? I make fun of GOP party liners and my comment gets taken down. I didn’t even use a potty mouth. Bunch of Jesus Humping freaks. Close you bibles, put down your flags and stop being a bunch of soulless jacka**es….

By: Demmy Morgan

Demmy Morgan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:10:13 +0000

The Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as SDI and “star wars”, has received billions of dollars each year since Reagan’s time. Even the highly manipulated tests where we know the exact time of launch and the exact path the missile will follow, have had poor results. Finally some one has the courage to pull the plug on this money pit, a quarter century too late. Sure, someday such a system may be workable, SASERS for example, have some promise, but till then our best option remains using Carter’s stealth bombers to take the missiles out prior to launch.

By: Daniel Wargo

Daniel Wargo — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:53:26 +0000

This technology does not work. That’s why they cut it. It is very difficult to be accurate knocking down short range, and medium range missiles as it is. Ballistic technology cannot be downed even before it reaches its boost phase, and spending $ faking tests is over. Thanks 6/18/09 1:50 PM