Letters to the Editor
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Holly McLachlan
Do you have the slightest bit of substance to add or is it just namecalling? Anyway since you're the self anointed authority then you should know the Aziris are a fairly marginalized and persecuted underclass in Iran.
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Anyway all of this is moot
It's just today's 'article' about how golly garshg we're going to bomb Iran tomorrow morning 7am bet the farm stop the presses I 1 billion percent guarantee it I have proof of those perfidious Jews who are the root of all evil.
Lather rinse repeat 2000 times in a row. Then write a book about how the media makes up news and advertise it on Salon, like Glenn Greenwald.
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@NOB
anti-missile technology is advancing
Way to move the goal posts. Yes, anti-missile technology is advancing. So is computer technology, automotive technology, and toilet-bowl cleaning technology.
That doesn't mean we can knock ballistic missiles out of the sky, or that SDI hasn't been one of the biggest pieces of corporate welfare since the Chrysler bailout.
But, I guess somebody has to keep the Kool-Aid people in business...
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BTW
Inaccurate missiles of any given range are by design terror weapons that can only be used against unprotected urban centers. W/o advanced precision there is no military advantage in using an IRBM against any military target of worth. So in practical terms one needs to develop any reasonably long (enough) range IRBM that can hoist whatever weapon be it chemical, nuclear or biologic and forego the complex job of reducing the CEP to a military worthy range and what you've come up with is an entirely feasible and useful strategic weapon of terror. Which is kind of the point. Iran doesn't really care where its missiles can land so long as everyone else worries that will land somewhere.
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As was destined from the start
Here we go, let's turn the thread into a Ronald Reagan Neocon circle-jerk. Nothing important to talk about here...
And didn't I say so?
Knob, look over there. LASERS!
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@Paul Daniel Ash
Thanks for the tip about advancing toilet bowl cleaning technology. My turn to clean the bathroom this week. :>
On corporate boondoggles that we must fund in order to keep from slipping from 1st to 1st-infinitesimal amount in techomilitary dominance, I give you the Future Combat System, also known as the Future Contractor System (link at sig is a good start).
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@You All
Ok, I added the Reagan stuff to jab you a little. You got it coming.
But to think that our defense industry has not advanced our anti-missile technology requires belief in a vast right-wing conspiracy that I don't think even sidney blumenthal would try to get past the public....could be wrong about that last part.
It's like you're members of a cult or something.
Vote Nader.
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No missiles yet, nor any warheads
Iran doesn't really care where its missiles can land so long as everyone else worries that will land somewhere.
and already Iran has been transformed into Nazi Germany.
Buzzbombs, ignite!
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Electro:
OK... if this is really all a joke, Glenn Greenwald's column is just a broken record, and on top of all that, wrong, then why are you always here? You don't actually refute anything anyone says, just (baselessly) and repeatedly allege it's wrong. YOU are the broken record around here. The same tired arguments in every thread.
What's more, no one displayed any "jew hating" yet you have no problem perpetrating this nonsense of castigating any critic of Israel's policies as evidence the critic is an anti-semite.
That's just not true.
Can you agree with this simple statement:
Criticism of the policies of a State does not logically equate to a baseless hatred of its people.
Follow?
I like to think, whether we try and make a difference or not, at least we can debate a topic using logical and rational arguments.
But that appears to be beyond your capacity...
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The Soviets overbuilt their strategic arsenal
Not to match us but to beat us. At the height of the Cold War the 3CP had about twice as many strategic nuclear missiles on alert as the US. Which means they had to build twice as many. Which means they spent twice as much. I don't know about you but I haven't seen any strategic nuclear weapons at Wal*Mart, they tend to be more expensive than that. It's not that we drove them to collapse it was that their economy couldn't handle BOTH a civilian consumer sector AND a military sector. You can have tanks but no cars. You can have submarines but not aluminum siding.
If you're interested in knowing something, which is debatable, you should read Richard Gid Powers' introduction to the book, "Secrecy" by D.P. Moynihan. It's quite informative on the point. Type in "Secrecy" on Amazon under 'Books' it should come up as the first entry.
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@quickstrategy
The FCS has cool graphics!
Any idea when I will be able to buy it and play it on my computer?
And will it be playable over the Net?
Will there be a Mars Invasion Battlepack?
;>
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Or
should I ask The Knob about that?
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Baldie McEagle
Your words not mine but you never listen to anyone anyway. No it's a technical point that w/o accuracy a missile becomes a terror weapon. Or in your words "Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack"
There, was that clear?
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One more
It's like you're members of a cult or something.
I do believe I heard The Knob cry "Uncle."
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-- Electro Robot@ "Inaccurate missiles of any given range are by design terror weapons that can only be used against unprotected urban centers."
Israeli Cluster Munitions Hit Civilians in Lebanon
Israel Must Not Use Indiscriminate Weapons
(Beirut, July 24, 2006) – Israel has used artillery-fired cluster munitions in populated areas of Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said today.
“Cluster munitions are unacceptably inaccurate and unreliable weapons when used around civilians,” said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. “They should never be used in populated areas.”
According to eyewitnesses and survivors of the attack interviewed by Human Rights Watch, Israel fired several artillery-fired cluster munitions at Blida around 3 p.m. on July 19. The witnesses described how the artillery shells dropped hundreds of cluster submunitions on the village. They clearly described the submunitions as smaller projectiles that emerged from their larger shells.
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/24/isrlpa13798.htm
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From quick's link
But "it matters in the sense that the poor old long suffering taxpayers are getting taken to the cleaners again."
The missile defense system is probably the best-known of these bloated programs. But "these are not just missile defense mistakes," Pike notes. "They are systemic to any number of major defense and space programs of the past decade, all of which were awarded under conditions of intense competition, and all of which promised unrealistic costs saving due to using a single company as a systems integrator."
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/000851.html
But of course we all know that defensetech.org is fully on board with those vast RW conspiracy theories the NOB dismisses so we can ignore them and bow down to our 8x10 glossies of Ronald Reagan.