Rapid Fire 09/​14/​06 (Updated)

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1. Byron Skinner says:

   September 14, 2006 at 12:51 pm

   Good Morning Folks,
   Oops, that “Missile Defense” cel­e­bra­tion didn’t last long, did it folks. What was it just two weeks ago the Diet Pepsis were pop­ing all over the place about a “suc­cess­ful” test. Now we hear that a test rocket had been destroyed at White Sands before the Interceptor could be fired.
   How handy, if you know the test is going to fail you destroy the tar­get. Those peo­ple at the “Missile Defense Mafia” are way more clever the we are, arn’t they.
   ALLONS,
   Byron Skinner

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2. Luc says:

   September 14, 2006 at 6:06 pm

   I find your lead in regard­ing the mis­sile defense more neg­a­tive than Reuters title for the arti­cle.
   In this case the tar­get mis­sile failed shortly after launch, not any part of the mis­sile defense sys­tem as such. Using your logic, if the per­son respon­si­ble for launch­ing the tar­get mis­sile had a heart attack and could not launch the tar­get that would be a fail­ure of the anti-​​missile sys­tem. Obviously, you are not at all biased against the mis­sile defense. Right?
   Just like Byron Skinner!

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3. zak822 says:

   September 15, 2006 at 3:14 pm

   Fred Barnes should be embar­rassed. His piece is just a retyp­ing of a hun­dred dif­fer­ent White House press releases. He offers his read­ers no per­spec­tive at all.
   If I remem­ber cor­rectly, the last General who said we needed more boots on the ground in Iraq was forced into retire­ment.
   What career offi­cer with a desire to con­tinue his career is going to risk that?

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4. Bill Gordon L. Stafford says:

   September 16, 2006 at 12:27 pm

   G. M.; Ford and Chrysler have room on assem­bly lines and could use some nice Defense Contracts.
   Now is the time to equip our war­riors not after the face as has hap­pened since the Spanish American War.

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