I was told, “The WORLD love Obama, and want him to be the next US President….(Stop bashing Obama and) Get over it.

Iran tests missiles again, candidates react

Barack Hussein Obama would another Jimmuh Cawtuh redo!

These guys in the non-free world have gamed us pretty well. No wonder Putin smiles. They have our psychology down pat. Hopefully exposing this fraud and the MSM’s gobbling up of it will help ease the run to the exits. Hopefully, pfft.

Putin and all those ME boys have E-Trade accounts with options and short selling. Those rascally rabbits. Thieving us like that. I reckon we got a mind to blow their f%cking sh#$t away at some point. Sadly that won’t happen because Russia mean and strong like Hulk, so hello poortown.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on July 9, 2008 at 10:52 AM

Yaknow Doc….when i mention this even amongst friends,I’m looked at as some kind of quac,( no pun intended, well, maybe a little). I agree with you. DOD knows this. i just hope they have a plan.
I can get by without electricity or communication capability.
Hell, even no running water.
My fear is for the little ones whose parents can’t even get through a cat 1 hurricane.

p40tiger on July 9, 2008 at 10:21 AM

not really…ever hear of cannon fodder?

I agree w Ed…what more do you want to know about them? What more “intelligence” is needed, and given the minute flight time (pun intended) why doesn’t Sen Obama’s foreign policy advisor have the info for him half a day later? Oh yeah, it’s Susan Rice.

Obama will get us all killed.

CliffHanger on July 9, 2008 at 3:28 PM

True.

saus on July 9, 2008 at 2:30 PM

I understand and agree.

You guess it, it is the dumb us that do not get his true meaning.

/nuanced nuance

Why should we allow Iran to progress that far? Is that our policy?
JiangxiDad on July 9, 2008 at 1:56 PM

I agree with you, it should not be. US intel estimates that Iranian missiles will be able to reach the US within the next 5-10 years. This is a long view, they already are demonstrating capability to send missiles with small payloads to space. Once they work out the details, that is all they need. An ICBM goes into space, and falls back down bringing everyone in range. This is a matter of working out technical details to add a stage to their rocket boosters on their existing Shahab-3 Missiles bringing them to Shahab-4.

No matter what you need defense, of course you correctly point out that the best way to deter a hostile missile threat is to remove the person who intends to launch the missile in the 1st place, not try and hit it out of the sky at 2000km per second or dozens of them at once and play guess which one carries the worst payload. That’s the difficulty we face in Israel, not a nuclear missile, but a hundred missiles with one carrying a nuclear payload.

We are the canary, whatever we are wrestling with, you can be assured within 5-10 years that tasy meal inevitably ends up dropping into your plate as well. The real problem is once they cross their threshold you are left with no options but defense ones, they remove your offensive capability. We in Israel cannot allow it to happen. Even the best goalie cannot stop every single soccer ball.

Earth to Obama: Open eyes. See Iranian missiles fly. This is a test. Imagine missiles with nukes landing in undivided Jerusalem. Think Jewish vote.

But we all know that Iran is such a tiny country, it’s not a threat. Because Hussein will be killing Ahmadinejad softly with his words, and all will be sweetness and light in HopeyChangeLand.

Taking the form of the test-firing of nine missiles, reputably capable of hitting Israel and all US bases in the Middle East. Obama promises more diplomacy — hopefully we can diplomacy our way to the Iranian nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic m…

This is “saber-rattling.” Iran wants itself in a position of strength if and when someone (Israel, the United States, Europe) steps up in opposition to them. It is a way of saying “If you oppose us it will be at a high cost to you. Are you certain you want to pay the price?”

saus on July 9, 2008 at 1:50 PM

US mainland is not in range. Won’t be for a long time unless we allow it to happen.

Iran is already a threat to Israel. I understand the need for early warning. But Cuffy suggests that we build this to protect the US from future Iranian missiles.

Why should we allow Iran to progress that far? Is that our policy?

Our siting of missile defense assets in Europe has everything to do with Iran and is primarily a frontline defense for the US itself. US-bound Iranian missiles would overfly these bases and give us the ability to take an earlier shot rather than waiting until the Shahab is on our doorstep. Bonus points for defending NATO allies, but rest assured, this system is designed to protect the continental US first and foremost.

This map clearly illustrates why we’re deploying missile defense in Europe.

Cuffy Meigs on July 9, 2008 at 11:54 AM

Still not clear about this. The map shows no ability to hit us with missiles for the forseeable future.

Missile defense in Europe must be only part of our strategy towards Iran. We can’t simply allow them to continue to militarize until they have missiles capable of reaching us. Sooner or later, they must have internal regime change, or it will have to be forced upon them. We can’t simply wait and hope to build better defenses.

What about Russia? If missile defense in Europe is primarily about Iran, why is Russia our principal adversary to its deployment. I doubt its because they love Iran. They see missile defense as a cold war tactic to build a new Maginot line between them and their former satellites.

Missile defense in Europe must have to do with Russia on the one hand, and Iran on the other. The Europeans seem all for it, (in spite of Poland’s little hissy fit) but that also doesn’t make it clear why. Do they fear Russia (after all, Russia cut off the gas recently, and assassinates people in western capitals), or Iran (Europeans are currently in missile range), or both?

Just what is their strategy on both those questions? I don’t think defense as a strategy without an offense is going to work.

Deploying your shield assets in the US only – leaves a long time for your interceptors to close distance, you ideally want to hit the incoming threat in its boost phase or the atmosphere if that is not possible, especially if it is a WMD threat, not while it is on its way down over your country. The quicker you can go for a hit, the quicker you can also at least try to mitigate if you miss. Multiple ABMs will usually go up for each threat.

We are working very closely with the US on the next set of improvements to systems, the US congress has approved additional 200 million for joint US / Israel funding just recently as the Arrow system is less experimental & already fully deployed, and we want to work with your newest THAAD technologies too.

our hand will always be on the trigger and our missiles will always be ready to launch

OK, I think these guys are cool with possessing nukes, you?