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This doesn't represent a major change in policy or anything... this has been a goal of his since the campaign. I thought it would just remain a goal, though. I'm surprised they're actually getting ready to deploy it. I don't remember reading anything that suggests that they're anywhere close to being ready for operational deployment.
And maybe they're not. The article says they're only going to set up a battery of 10 missiles in 2004, and maybe 10 more a couple years later. Maybe this is more of a proof-of-concept test than an actual deployment?
To answer the question in the last sentence of your first paragraph, I would suggest that they are a combination of fools and greedy bastards. And, unsavory as they are, they are still vastly preferrable to the collection of delusional fools that we would have had under a <involuntary shudder> Gore administration.
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Last edited by Hubris Boy; 12-17-2002 at 01:22 PM.
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