Fooling Reagan
It's really amazing that money is still being spent on "missile defense." Officially, $100 billion so far, and what we have doesn't work. ....and even if it did work as advertised,
...and all of this comes from one sales pitch in the White House to a president born in 1911, but who was good enough to sell his party on the idea.....
Funny you don't see Republicans protesting this spending.
Independent technical analysis has shown that Iran and North Korea, which has a nuclear program, could fool the system using simple countermeasures such as balloons, says critic David Wright of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
...and all of this comes from one sales pitch in the White House to a president born in 1911, but who was good enough to sell his party on the idea.....
Funny you don't see Republicans protesting this spending.
posted by mikevotes at
7:24 AM
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It painless illusion of security is so much more salable than the actual roll-up-your-sleeves kind of actual, democratic security.
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-epm, at 8:35 AM
But...but...I've seen the animations on TV, and they always intercept all of the missiles every time.
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Todd Dugdale , at 8:40 AM
I don't know why this morning I was struck by the straight line from Reagan to party platform, but I was.
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mikevotes, at 10:39 AM
Funny, Todd!
The Republican Reagan-lust fantasy will bring the party full circle. While helping to empower the Party to unity and ascendancy, it will also be an anchor around the Party as we move (and have moved) forward.
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-epm, at 10:47 AM
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