More pie in the sky. (Man, these bastards are really shameless.)
Don't worry, there's no danger of Osama Bin Laden launching a ICBM at us! W is spending a butt load of money to make damn sure it doesn't happen.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is set to declare operational [Ha!] soon a multibillion dollar system intended to defend America from attack by ballistic missiles, but which critics say will not work.

And to think I thought "Mutual Assured Destruction" (M.A.D.) was crazy!

"We say to those tyrants who believe they can blackmail America and the free world -- you fire, we're going to shoot it down," President Bush August.

Take that Kim Jong-il!

Hey, Ayatollah! Suck it! You fire at us, we'll shoot it down!

The Guardian says:

This has nothing to do with terrorists, repeatedly described by Bush and Blair as the greatest threat to the west. The al-Qaida network of terrorists may want to get their hands on biological or chemical weapons, or a dirty bomb, but they are unlikely to be able to launch a long-range intercontinental ballistic against the US, or anywhere else.

Duck and cover.

Budgeted at more than $50 billion over five years, it is built on the simple concept of blasting one missile out of the sky with another.

With a country like North Korea developing nuclear weapons and honing missile capabilities, advocates argue, America would be foolish not to guard against ballistic missiles.

Pentagon officials said the system will get better with time -- and that even a limited missile defense is superior to none at all. [Yeah, that makes sense.]

Rummy says:

I think there are any number of things that you benefit greatly by getting it out there, playing with it, working with it, testing it, evolving it, learning about it, showing people what it can do, learning what it can do and what it can't do,"

"And that is not rush to deployment, that's a rush to learning, by my standard."

No Donald, thats 50 billion dollars a year pissed down the toilet!