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Wednesday, December 15, 2004


What would $130 Billion buy you? Apparently, not much when it comes to the pipe dream that is the missle defense program.
President Bush's drive to deploy a multibillion-dollar shield against ballistic missiles was set back on Wednesday by what critics called a stunning failure of its first full flight test in two years.
Remember back in the day when we had a enemy we could name? At lease back then we had a reason to develop pointlessly useless weapons like this. Damn, I miss the Soviets.
The Pentagon plans to spend more than $50 billion over the next five years on all aspects of missile defense, aiming to weave in airborne, ship- and space-based assets. The system that failed on Wednesday is know as the ground-based midcourse system, or GMD. By some estimates, the Pentagon has already spent $130 billion on missile defense efforts.
That's $180 billion. Billion, with a B folks.

And it's failed in all eight previous tests.

And none of our enemies have missiles.

$180 Billion.



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