Rummy's Missile Shield Doubts ... or ... Skeptical on Ass

posted by The Vidiot @ 10:26 PM Permalink

Look for the $$ quote:

Rumsfeld cautions on missile shield

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Asked at a news conference later whether he believed the missile shield was ready for use against a North Korean missile like the one test-fired unsuccessfully on July 4, Rumsfeld said he would not be fully persuaded until the multibillion dollar defense system has undergone more complete and realistic testing.

He alluded to his own skeptical nature. "I want to see it happen," he said, "A full end-to-end" demonstration is needed "where we actually put all the pieces" of the highly complex and far-flung missile defense system together and see whether it would succeed in destroying a warhead in flight.

"That just hasn't happened," he said, adding that some elements of the missile defense system are yet to come on line, including some of the radars and other sensors used to track the target missile.

Yep, the money quote, swallowed hook line and sinker by the press, was his self referential "skeptical nature."

Gee, Rummy, would that be this skeptical nature!?

"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat."

"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that. "

"And within the last week or two, they have in fact captured and have in custody two of the mobile trailers that Secretary Powell talked about at the United Nations as being biological weapons laboratories. We have people who are telling that they worked in these vehicles. And they look at panels and say, "That was my work station in that panel, and that's what it's for."

"His regime has amassed large clandestine stockpiles of chemical weapons, including VX and sarin and mustard gas."

"And he has biological and chemical weapons."

"We have seen . . . intelligence over--over months, over many months that they have chemical and biological weapons, and that they have dispersed them and that they're weaponized . . . ."

"They are perfectly capable of being equipped with spraying and aerosol-type capabilities." [...] We know that Iraq has a number of so-called UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles, of different types, that they train with them and exercise them."

Does he sound skeptical to you? Since none of those things were true, hell, he doesn't even sound informed!