C.B.S. television's "60 Minutes" today featured a expose' on the dismal failure of the "Patriot Missle System". Ed Bradley reported that the system FAILED IN MORE THAN 90 % OF IT'S LAUNCHES! In the first GULF_WAR, George Bush Senior was praising the Patriot-system, as having succeeded in "41 out of 42" launches; it ACTUALLY shot-down only FOUR targets , out of 42 launches!!! Even worse, it often targeted "friendly" aircraft; as well as non-existant, imaginary ones. This system, made by ROCKWELL, is fraught with "glitches", which sometimes kill OUR OWN TROOPS!!! Don't forget, this technology was designed to intercept "SCUD" missles, NOT I.C.B.Ms. We NOW have the Pentagon spending 53 BILLION dollars, (in the next 5 years), to deploy a "Space-Based-Strategic-Defense-Shield"..... an idea based on 21 year-old technology, and dreamed-up by our "actor-President" Ronald Reagan. ALL reputable scientific authorities concur, that the "Space-based" system CANNOT WORK, IS TOO EASILY FOOLED, AND IS NOT NECESSARY!! We are FAR more vulnerable to terrorist-attacks, than I.C.B.M.s; yet our harbors and borders remain largely un-guarded. One cargo-container full of nerve-gas or other biological-agents can be easily shipped into San Francisco, Seattle, or New York; detonated with a simple cell-phone-call, and kill MILLIONS OF PEOPLE! This, while the Bush budget CUTS FUNDING TO Homeland Security!!! Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing it's "idiot"!!!! I also heard today about a "site" that estimates the number of civilian-casualties in Iraq...... something like "bodycount.org"??? They have calculated the number of Iraqi deaths, since our invasion, at SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 9,000 AND 11,000!!!! How come Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh have FAILED to mention these??? George Bush's flagrant colonialism has KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN THE ATTACKS ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER!!! I guess that's why Bush refused to join the WORLD COURT....HE WOULD BE ON TRIAL!!!! If you aren't "outraged", then you're not paying attention!!!! Dave
- posted by Dave @ 6:58 PM