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Missile Defense Watch: “Concept of Operations” To Be Done by Fall
This time-exposure photo made available by the U.S. Department of Defense shows a test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD), held in White Sands, NM, Wednesday, July 12, 2006. THAAD is designed to intercept and destroy short- to intermediate-range ballistic missiles high within the Earth’s atmosphere or just above the atmosphere in the final moments before it strikes its target.
Reuters: Missile defense plan seen ready by fall
The U.S. military hopes to complete work this fall on a plan mapping out how regional commanders will be able to use the
fledglingU.S. missile defense system, a top general said on Tuesday.Lt. Gen. Larry Dodgen, commander of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defend Command, told industry executives and congressional aides he expected the so-called “concept of operations” to be done by October or November.
He said it marked the first time the military had tried to draft such a plan for a specific capability across the military’s regional commands. (emphasis mine)
Well, the Missile Defense Agency and its programs are not fledgling in any sense of the word. Former President Bill Clinton and a Democrat controlled Congress delayed the program by cutting its budget but President George W. Bush has supported, revived and deployed missile defense for the United States. Read about the history of the Strategic Defense Initiative and National Missile Defense.
President Reagan Addresses the Nation from the oval office on National Security (Strategic Defense Initiative speech) March 23, 1983.
Dodgen hailed a recent successful test of a missile-shield component built by Lockheed Martin Corp. to shoot down a ballistic missile in the last minute or so of its flight.
The so-called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense weapon system, or THAAD, “exceeded its objectives” in the long-planned test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Lockheed said in a statement earlier this month.
Dodgen agreed, saying the THAAD missiles would “pay for themselves many times over.”
He also mentioned plans to deploy missile interceptors in Japan, and said officials were still weighing where to place interceptors in Europe.
THAAD Mobile Launchers
And other parts of national missile defense:
Missile interception by Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI)
Missile Interception by Aegis Ship-Based BMD
And Flap remembers when the LEFTY critics laughed and ridiculed President Reagan for “Star Wars.” Where are those left-wing appeasement-minded MORONS today when these systems may indeed save the United States from a nuclear/chemical or biological attack or worse…….nuclear blackmail?
Stay tuned……
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Missile Defense Watch: Vandenberg Launches Minuteman III
Missile Defense Watch: White Sands THAAD Test – †This Is Phenomenalâ€
Missile Defense Watch: THAAD Successfully Intercepts Live Target
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Cox & Forkum: Cowardly Blending
Cox & Forkum: Cowardly Blending
U.N. Chief Accuses Hezbollah of ‘Cowardly Blending’ Among Refugees.
Hezbollah, the pathetic cowards who prefer dead women and children to armed fighting men, better keep their heads down – Bastards.
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Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: WFB – A Connecticut Quandry
Former President Bill Clinton, left, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., laugh together during a rally in Waterbury, Conn., Monday, July 24, 2006. During his speech, Clinton appealed to Connecticut Democrats to send Lieberman to a new term in office. Lieberman is being challenged in a primary by Ned Lamont of Greenwich, Conn.
National Review: Connecticut Quandary
A call from William F. Buckley, Jr. for conservatives and members of the GOP to change registration and vote for Ned Lamont.
And why not?
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Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: Bill Clinton Praises Joe LiebermanÂ
Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: California Senator Barbara Boxer – “A Profile in Cowardiceâ€
Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: New Poll – Lamont Beating Lieberman 51% to 41%
Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: Latest Poll Shows Ned Lamont Beating Lieberman
Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: Will Israel – Hezbollah War Sink Ned Lamont?
Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: Bill Clinton Defends Lieberman’s Position on Iraq War
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Sock Puppet Watch: Glenn Greenwald Sock Puppets – The Worst? – Part 2
Glenn Greenwarld = Sock Puppet ExtraordinaireAllah makes amen(ds) for omitting a few blog scandals.
If any reader wishes to add, please leave them in comments here or there.
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Sock Puppet Watch: Glenn Greenwald Sock Puppets – The Worst?
Glenn Greenwald Watch: The Sock Puppet Story
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Israel at War Watch: Israel v. Iran – What is at Stake?
David Frum at AEI has a piece, Iran’s Showdown with the West, outlining what is at stake in the current Israeli war with Hezbollah – Iran’s proxy.
Now see the stakes if Iran loses. If Hezbollah is destroyed as a military force, Iran loses its most potent weapon of attack and retaliation against the Western world.
Through the years of negotiating with Iran over its nuclear bomb program, the Iranians have repeatedly threatened: “If you should dare ever to strike our nuclear facilities, we will unleash a global Hezbollah terror campaign against oil in the Persian Gulf, against Israel, against Europe, against the United States!” No more Hezbollah means no more such terror threats.
When negotiations over the nuclear program resume, they will resume with the West powerfully strengthened and Iran visibly weakened by the failure of Iran’s own reckless aggression. This will be Israel’s achievement–and Israel’s latest gift to the peace of the world.
Yet, today, Iran continues to bloviate.
America has alot riding on the IDF. But, the war won today against Hezbollah may save the world from a nuclear conflagration in the future.
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Illegal Immigration Watch: A GOP Compromise Bill?
Supporters of immigration reform carry signs during a march through downtown Chicago July 19, 2006. Two Republican U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday offered a compromise immigration plan they said would ensure border security and allow some of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to work legally in the United States without granting amnesty.
Reuters: Lawmakers offer immigration alternative
Two Republican U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday offered a compromise immigration plan they said would ensure border security and allow some of the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants to work legally in the United States without granting amnesty.
Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (news, bio, voting record) and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence (news, bio, voting record) said they hoped their plan would jump start stalled negotiations between the Senate and House of Representatives. The two chambers have passed vastly different immigration bills and it is increasingly unlikely the two sides will bridge differences ahead of the November congressional elections.
“We believe that this Congress must come together and find a way forward, and we hope this idea can be that way forward,” Pence said at a news conference with Hutchison.
The American people want their borders SECURED first and foremost.
This is a NON-STARTER……besides GOP candidates do best when they run against President Bush’s immigration policies (i.e. the Senate Bill).
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California Election 2006 Watch: California GOP Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Leads California Democrat Treasurer Phil Angelides by 8 Points in Latest Field Poll
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger waves to a crowd as he exits his campaign bus to begin a tour of Southern California Tuesday, July 25, 2006, in La Mesa, Calif.
Sacramento Bee: Budget, ads give governor poll boost
Buoyed by recent good news, he leads Democrat Angelides by 8 points.
After signing the state’s timeliest budget in six years and running $12 million in post-primary campaign ads, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads Democrat Phil Angelides by 8 points in the governor’s race, according to a new Field Poll.
The findings contain additional good news for the Republican incumbent: More voters believe California is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction for the first time in 22 months, while Schwarzenegger has his first positive job approval rating since February 2005.
The “FAT LADY” has sung for Phil Angelides.
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John E. Carey Commentary Watch: . . . at the crossroads
Israeli soldiers fire artillery to targets in southern Lebanon from a position in northen Israel near the Lebanese border Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israeli ground troops hunting Hezbollah guerrillas will not push deep into Lebanon and instead encircle Lebanese towns and villages near the border with Israel, a senior Israeli commander said Tuesday, in the most detailed outline yet of the objectives of Israel’s military offensive.
Washington Times: . . . at the crossroads
China made the anti-ship cruise missile, the C-802, that slammed into an Israeli warship this last week in the Mediterranean Sea. The Israeli ship didn’t even have its anti-missile systems turned on. The intelligence estimate didn’t credit the terrorists with having anti-ship cruise missiles. That is “asymmetric warfare.”
John Carey has an expanded piece at his Peace and Freedom blog on Assymetric Warfare:Strategic Situation: The Crossroads Are Now; and Even More Apparent
“We are living in a new strategic environment that we do not yet fully understand…. Some of our adversaries are undeniably at work developing ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction. This ushers in an entirely new age of threat, terrorism, intelligence and defense.â€
I made those statements in a commentary essay in The San Francisco Chronicle, on Friday, August 21, 1998.We are usually not so prescient. Give credit to decades of reading intelligence estimates on Soviet, Chinese, Iranian, North Korean and Syrian weapons developments and proliferation.
It is certainly a pleasure to have John contributing to Flap’s blog. John’s background.
Stay tuned……
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Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: Bill Clinton Praises Joe Lieberman
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., left, and former President Bill Clinton wave to the crowd during a campaign rally for Lieberman in Waterbury, Conn., Monday July 24, 2006.
AP: Bill Clinton praises Joe Lieberman
Bill Clinton came to praise three-term Sen. Joe Lieberman and most assuredly not to bash Ned Lamont, the anti-war challenger making a strong bid for the Democratic Senate nomination in the state’s Aug. 8 primary.
“I don’t have anything against Joe’s opponent,” Clinton said Monday as he campaigned to save his political ally of more than three decades from defeat. “He seems like a perfectly nice man. He’s got every right to run and he’s waged a vigorous campaign.”
Clinton: “I come not to praise Joe but to BURY Him!”
Flap agrees with Kos: PATHETIC is the word
But did Slick kiss Joe?
The Bush “KISS OF DEATH”
How can this dog and pony show possibly help Lieberman?
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Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: California Senator Barbara Boxer – “A Profile in Cowardiceâ€
Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: New Poll – Lamont Beating Lieberman 51% to 41%
Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: Latest Poll Shows Ned Lamont Beating Lieberman
Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: Will Israel – Hezbollah War Sink Ned Lamont?
Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: Bill Clinton Defends Lieberman’s Position on Iraq War
Technorati Tags: JoeLieberman, NedLamont
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Sock Puppet Watch: Glenn Greenwald Sock Puppets – The Worst?
Allah has a run down of the worst blog scandels EVER:
1. Trent Lott (2002)
2. Rathergate (2004)
3. Jeff Gannon (2005)
4. Eason Jordan (2005)
5. Ben Domenech (2006)
6. Michael Hiltzik (2006)
7. Students Against War (2006)
8. Glenn Greenwald (2006)
Flap does not know why the Los Angeles Times did not fire Michael Hiltzik and Greenwald = Patterico has yet to finish with this douche bag.
Stay tuned…..
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Glenn Greenwald Watch: The Sock Puppet Story
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