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Originally Posted by Skybird
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Its pretty much publically available info that these systems are completely and totally inadequate. In a congressional hearing, the program director publically admitted to congress that there is a 0% chance of it actually intercepting a real missile...
watch section 6
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl.../missile/view/
What's happened is that Washington politicians (mostly Bush and his cronies) are using this program and that fact that JQ Public is uninformed and ignorant of the facts to try to ingender votes. "Vote for me, I support ballistic missile defense."... knowing that most people have no clue that the system is full of bunk.