The Missile Shield Idiocy

Despite the $130 Billion price tag and remarkable failures in the testing that lead up to this deployment, we're about to have a 'missle shield'. now tell me, just who is this to protect us from? China? This is pathetic. We're pursuing Reagan era protections (remember Reagan's "Star Wars" program? well that was largely a fake missle shield system which was primarily designed to scare the russians rather than actually work).

The pursuit of this program is remarkable in its lack of understanding of POST-Cold war threats, the willingness to forego proven systems when there's war profiteering to be done, and the abject disregard of budgeting discipline. well, i for one thank my stars we have a poorly working system that will likely not protect us from a form of attack which: (a) has never been visited upon american soil and (b) is less likely to happen now than at any other time in the last 60 YEARS.

Bush sure is conservative!