Defense Missile for U.S. System Fails to Launch

[GHOSTDANCER]

ASHINGTON, Dec. 15 - An important test of the United States' fledgling missile defense system ended in failure early Wednesday as an interceptor rocket failed to launch on cue from the Marshall Islands, the Pentagon said.

After a rocket carrying a mock warhead as a target was launched from Kodiak, Alaska, the interceptor, which was intended to go aloft 16 minutes later and home in on the target 100 miles over the earth, automatically shut down because of "an unknown anomaly," according to the Missile Defense Agency of the Defense Department.

The launching had been planned as the first full test in two years of this element of the Bush administration's effort to deploy a multilayered missile defense shield.

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. -D.D.Eisenhower

[Benhurst]

1. Yeah, makes you feel really safe, like all those trillions of

Dollars spent on defense prior to 9/11.

[GHOSTDANCER]

2. This is where $130 billion of that has got us.

The cost of defending "Freedom". Remember "Freedom" isn't free now kids.

[Sandpiper]

3. Why is this news? "Missile Defense" has never worked

Unless the tests were rigged.

Our "missile defense" is just a multi-billion dollar corporate welfare program for the military industrial complex.

[ScrewyRabbit]

4. Bush shoots his wad, misses

nt

[LiberteToujours]

5. I, for one, am not too mature to say:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[FDRrocks]

6. This is great! More money to pay to the incompetant M/I complex n/t