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In article <35C360E3.322C@swbell.net>
on Sat, 01 Aug 1998 13:39:31 -0500, "Tracey-Levin."
<tracey12@swbell.net> wrote:

>klaatu wrote:
>
>> Actually, Tracey, we did - it's called THAAD (Theater High-Altitude
>> Antimissile Defense) but unfortunately it doesn't work, mostly because it's
>> built by Lockheed Martin, which evidently has made a career over the last five
>> years of building rockets that either blow up on the pad six times out of ten,
>> or have to be destroyed within ten seconds after launch something like eight
>> times out of ten. Oh, since Lockheed Martin is such a Conservative MilCorp
>> Darling, they get paid even for delivering a product that is not only useless
>> but dangerous to the customer.
>
>S.D.I.(STAR WARS) was defunded.

By guess who?  Not Clinton.  The following parts of articles from the
Houston Post will help you out:

From the HOUSTON CHRONICLE on MON 04/24/89 in Section A on page 1, 2
Star Edition -- Title: Bush to cut `Star Wars' fund request... The
Bush administration plans to ask for less money for an anti-missile
shield than President Reagan sought.....

From the HOUSTON CHRONICLE on THU 11/26/92 in Section A on page 6, 2
STAR Edition -- Title: "Star Wars' defense pact is canceled by the
Army from Reuters News Service -- WASHINGTON -- The Army on Wednesday
canceled a $594 million "Star Wars" research contract with McDonnell
Douglas in another sign of financial distress and delay for the
proposed U.S. anti-missile defense program.

The Army said the shrinking defense budget forced it to withdraw the
contract to develop a Ground-based Surveillance and Tracking System
from the nation's biggest defense firm and four major subcontractors.

The contract was to lead to construction of a single high-tech
headquarters base that would be the heart of a system to find, track
and support attacks on nuclear missiles launched at America.

The Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly called "Star Wars," has
suffered a succession of financial setbacks in Congress in recent
years. Legislators this year slashed President Bush's request for 1993
research funds from $5.4 billion to $3 .8 billion.

The SDI organization decided to end the contract because of fiscal
year 1993 funding problems and congressional deferral of the initial
site deployment date to 2002, the Army said.

=== end of articles to remind you under whose watch that SDI.

Now under whose watch did the S.D.I's get defunded?  All together now,
President George Bush.

>The concept works.

Being that SDI is a concept by definition SDI has never been built let
alone tested.  So because SDI is just a concept we don't know if it
will work until a prototype is built.

>  A missle defense shield is needed.

From who? Not the USSR, that is gone.  China doesn't want to do a
first strike.  From whom is the Tax and Spend Project going to defend
us from?  In previous post you say you want to cut taxes well the only
way to cut taxes is an needed project like this.  The threat of a
nuclear attack is real but not from ICBM's... dim wit.  If the US was
attacked today it would be from a non-high-tech way of delivering a
bomb.... called strapped to ones body or placed in a 3rd World tanker
and brought into our harbors without any problem at all.  Just how
much damage would a 30 kiloton nuclear bomb cause if it was on ship
that was docking in the Houston Ship Channel?  We have no way of
detecting these, goofball.  If someone was to come up with a way of
detecting these type of attacks I would be all for it.

>So why is Clinton against it?????? 

1) The money for an unneeded expensive project that we do not have the
resources for unless we raise taxes.

2) Even though the USSR has falling, we are still bound by our treaty
signed to that part of the world on limiting ABM's.

>Because hes a commie lib.


Very poor English... every think about going to college and taking
English 101?  My spell checker says that "hes" isn't recognized so I
have a problem know what you mean here... dim wit.