Talk About "Just In Time" Delivery !

Wow ! Its like a miracle or something !

Just as Axis-of -Evil member North Korea is poised to test launch an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States with a nuclear weapon payload and it looks like all is lost because national suicide appears high on Pyongyang's list of things to do . . .

LOOK ! Up in the sky ! Its a bird ! Its a plane ! Its SUPERMAN ! No, more incredible ! Its an operational U.S. Missile Defense System ! And not a moment too soon as those wily Communists plot to have themselves incinerated, man, woman and child in the U.S. retaliatory strike !

Do you mean the system we have been working on without success since the Reagan Administration ? Yes.

Do you mean the missile defense system that flunked its test in December 2004 ? Yes !

Do you mean the missile defense system that flunked its test in February 2005 ? Yes, that's the one !

Do you mean the sea-based system that had a successful test in May 2006 ? No, that's a different system. Apparently because the Koreans are going to launch out over the Pacific Ocean, an ocean based system wouldn't be as good.

No, we're talking about the system that the Arms Control Association described as "unproven" in August 2004 which was, of course, before the system flunked the tests in December '04 and February '05.

Well, we had been preparing for a time of sweaty and fear-filled nights after the DPRK announcement and have now been lulled back to calm by the Bush Administration's absolute determination to say whatever will get them a few ratings points without regard to the facts.

Watch the skies and

Stay Naked
jd