Subject: [Homestead] Srar Wars $130,000,000,000 down the toilet
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:52:06 -0500
STAR WARS MISSILE MISFIRES...AGAIN
1/20/2005
Gosh, it's sad that the Bushites have not been able to provide
protective armor for all of our troops in Iraq – resulting in untold
numbers of needless deaths and maimings – but... well, the Pentagon has
other priorities. Such as playing with its Star Wars toys.
There recently was another test of this boondoggle. The scheme is that
the military industry can build a whiz-bang technological wonder that
will allow a U.S. missile to be fired at an incoming enemy missile and
shoot it out of the air. So far, the Pentagon has shoveled $80 billion
into this smoke-and-mirrors stunt, with another $50 billion to be thrown
at it in the next five years.
I say "smoke-and-mirrors," because it doesn't work – and nearly all
independent experts say it won't ever work, and isn't even needed.
Indeed, the Pentagon even rigged its previous tests – including putting
beacons on the target missile so their Star Wars missile can find it
easily – yet, it still doesn't hit the target. The latest test was
especially embarrassing. Instead of merely missing the target this one
couldn't even get off the ground. Pentagon chief Donnie Rumsfeld,
however, is undeterred, saying that critics who claim that his pet
project doesn't work are misguided, because "what the definition of
'work' is, is terribly important."
OK, Donnie, try this small dose of reality: The system is so flawed that
it cannot be fired if the weather is bad! Excuse my skepticism, but it's
at least possible that an enemy might not wait for a perfectly clear,
calm day to take a shot at us.
The main thing that the Bushites' highly touted missile defense system
can be counted on is to hit the federal budget. But they don't care, for
its all being deficit financed, paid in IOUs that our grandchildren will
have to pay – long after the Bushites are gone and their Star Wars scam
has been assigned to the scrap heap of ridiculous waste. Is there no
other need in America that we could spend this money on
[Homestead] Srar Wars $130,000,000,000 down the toilet,
tvoivozhd, 01/28/2005