War Party Member Using N.Korea Launches To Pimp Missile Defense

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Hunter cites N. Korean missile launch to push missile-defense system

By Otto Kreisher
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE

2:28 p.m. July 11, 2006

WASHINGTON – House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter declared Tuesday that North Korea's unsuccessful launch of a missile that might have been able to reach the United States proves that President Bush was right in 2001 when he pulled out of a treaty that barred deployment of a national missile defense system.

Hunter, R-El Cajon., told a news conference that North Korea's July 4 test of six short-range or mid-range missiles and its attempt to launch a long-range Taepodong 2 vindicated Bush's controversial decision to scrap the U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.

“The president should be applauded for adopting a policy of peace through strength – Unfortunately, we still have a majority of Democrats in the House who are fighting missile defense,” he said.

But arms control advocates noted that the land-based missile defense system has yet to prove it can intercept an incoming missile and the money allocated for fielding more interceptors could be used more effectively for other homeland security efforts. “I think we're still confronted with a situation, not withstanding the North Korean launch, that nuclear weapons are far more likely to reach the United States in a shipping container than in a ballistic missile,” said P.J. Crawley, a retired Air Force colonel and former National Security Council spokesman who is now with the Center for American Progress, a left-of-center think tank.

report: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20060711-1428-cnshunter.html

[Joanne98]

1. Can you say Raytheon?

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2. more

"Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has come under fire from constituents for accepting nearly a quarter million dollars in campaign contributions from missile defense contractors over the past five years. Hunter has also drawn criticism for accepting $46,000 from un-indicted co-conspirators implicated in bribing Hunter’s friend and San Diego colleague, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who resigned from Congress after pleading guilty."

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Congressman_tied_to_contractors_bribery_coconspirators_1214.html

[murray hill farm]

3. What a suprise, eh!

no tea leaves needed to see what all that hyped up terra was about over a "test" of missles by NK... also why we are now ever so calmly talking diplomacy. This administration knew well in advance that NK planned these tests and just used it to their advantage so that they could after the fact, hype the anti missile defense.

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4. suits them just fine doesn't it?

problem solved would mean they would have to find a new nemesis