North Korea is making new threats.

Once again, I want to extend my eternal gratitude to those people who have been determined to prevent us from having a missile defense for the past two decades.

So the Iraqi "spokesman" says we will be begging to get out of Iraq if we attack, and the North Korean "spokesman" says we will be pushing for peace.

The next logical step will be Dan Rather presiding over the meeting of said "spokesman" as they decide how to divide up the country after our demise. CBS will no doubt use actors faking accents to give the coverage authenticity.

As a veteran all I can say to these bellicose twits is, if you really want some of this, line up for the ass whipping of the century fellows.

Well, after all, since it could at best be 90% effective, and since we know the Soviet Union will send 10,000 warheads our way, it's all so very, very pointless and will only encourage us to think we can win a nuclear war...

Blah blah blah.

Damn, a couple of modified cruisers with boost-phase point defense anti-missile stuff would be awfully handy right now...

If any American is hit with a nuke, I will never, ever, ever stop condemning the anti Missile Defense luddites and reactionaries.

Ever.

Don't worry about not building Regan's Star Wars defense. An angry al Quada recruit with a suitcase is much more likely to be the source of America's first nuclear attack.

After George II has given the surplus trillions to his corporate sponsors, and spent our grand-children's money and our young soldiers out on America's Crusade, there won't be enough money left to build an effective missile defense shield. But George II has promised much that he can't possibly - or ever intended - to deliver.

"surplus Trillions" You mean the fictional surplus that never really existed?

And I'm still awaiting proof that a suitcase nuke will be first as opposed to a nutjob dictator with nuke missilies like Kimmy.

On second thought, no, I'm not waiting for proof. And neither should you.

Will it be Kimmy or Osama? It's true that we won't know for a while.

George II has convinced many that we must follow other Good Guys like Pope Urban II and St. Louis King of France in taking out the Bad Guys of the East. Along the way, the first seven Crusaders picked up a lot of guys with Gray Hats, and many men, women, and children with no hats at all died. The West finally stopped the East because of superior technology.

We feel we have the better technology today, but there are many over there who believe THEY have White Hats and WE have the Black Hats.

When we use our great technology to launch preemptive strikes that wipe out a lot of people with no hats, it turns our hats gray.

I'd prefer that we win without semi-intellignet bombs and daisy cutters, and instead do a super job of communicating with the gullible people who are so easily convinced by their White Turbaned mullahs that strapping bombs to their backs can stop our superior technology.

Bill: "When we use our great technology to launch preemptive strikes that wipe out a lot of people with no hats, it turns our hats gray."

And it makes Baby Jesus cry, too.

You really did learn everything you know in kindergarten, didn't you?