In a message dated 6/14/01 9:47:23 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << The nice thing about a missile, as opposed to say, a suitcase bomb, is that it focuses the attention. >> Isn't this why we have a CIA, not to mention all those Tomahawk missiles and stealth bombers and who knows what all they haven't even told us about? Why can't we blow up Saddam's hypothetical nuclear missile, plus all the factories the built any part of it, _before_ he's threatening us with it? And once he rebuilds them all 5 years later, blow them up again? It's not 100% protection, but neither is a missile shield. Another thought -- if we need a missile shield to protect us because some lunatic might build his own nuclear missile in the near future ... why hasn't anyone built such a missile already? We've all known how for an awfully long time ... Patrick Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
