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Blair Seeks U.S. Missile Site in Britain

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For months, Tony Blair has been secretly lobbying the U.S. to locate a missile defense site in Britain. Poland and the Czech Republic are also in the running. The $90-billion “son of star wars” program has performed poorly in the past, and is still under development as it’s deployed.

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In any event Mr Blair seems in a combative mood as he nears the exit. Twice in recent weeks he has urged Britain to retain its ability to exercise “hard”, or military, power if it wants to exert the “soft” power of diplomacy and peace-keeping that many of his European neighbours prefer.

Not everyone believes such shields can work. The system is a work in progress: it has been deployed even as parts are still being invented. America has gambled $90 billion so far that imperfect insurance is better than none in a risky world. Not for the first time, Mr Blair shares America’s view. A British missile site—built only after a battle royal at home—would bind Britain to that world-view for a generation. That may be exactly how Mr Blair wants it.

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By John Hanks, February 25, 2007 at 1:40 am #
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Now that Great Britain has become a state, it should get its share of the graft.

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By Frank, February 24, 2007 at 7:01 pm #
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Every single high tech jet fighter the US has adopted over the last 30 years has had multiple problems and crashes during testing, until the bugs were engineered out. Eventually each new plane came to work very reliably. The early US space program crashed or otherwise failed dozens of rockets before they got one to launch successfully, before they could strap a capsule of astronauts on top. But we don’t think of the F-14 or the early US space program failures because of initial problems. So why do we criticize some failed missile tests so harshly? Some more recent tests have in fact been successful and I expect the system will continually get better as engineers work out the bugs.

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By trantieungoc, February 23, 2007 at 10:29 pm #
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How about seeking missiles aiming at his kingdom instead ?

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By Dale Headley, February 23, 2007 at 8:47 pm #
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Doesn’t anyone realize where this corporate boondoggle -“The Strategic Defense Initiative” came from? From Ronald Reagan’s scrambled brain as he recalled “Secret Service of the Air”, a “B"movie he made in 1939.

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By James V, February 23, 2007 at 3:40 pm #
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BRILLIANT!

But honestly you guys, you could accomplish the same thing with two copper pipes and a case of bottle rockets… but hey it’s your call.

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By Quy Tran, February 23, 2007 at 11:45 am #
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The $90 Billion so-called “son of star wars” program will become “son of the B….” plan to protect the poodle and its kingdom.

Before going to slaughter house the poodle tries to play with fire.

Animal will surely be animal no more or less !

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