ScottW wrote:

I think there is plenty of blame to go around
with the benefit of hind sight.

BINGO!!!!

I wish everybody would quit trying to make GWB look like a
beleaguered, prescient, committed enemy of terrorism who
would have been so much more prepared for 9/11 had he not
been so busy digging out from the morass Clinton left for
him. Bush and company ****ed up early and often. Admit it
and move on.

BTW, If North Korea pops out an ICBM
in the next 10 years, we may well be wishing
Rumsfeld had his way on missile defense.

Scott, Scott, Scott. You work in a large engineering
organization. And I've actually worked under the missile
defense and SDI funding umbrellas during a previous life.
What do *you* think are the odds of us shooting down every
piece of a MIRV, or even a single warhead, launched
god-knows-when from god-knows-where? NASA drove a Mars rover
off the edge of a cliff because of a metric/USCS ambiguity.
Frankly, it's amazing *anything* ever works. I don't think
we're remotely capable of building something like this,
given all the myriad opportunities for massive failure.

GZ