North Korean Rocket Launch (& New Nuke Test)

[Yoshi]

Saddam used chemical weapons on his own people, so not only do we know he had them, but he used them in more than just a test, so Thief's point is completely valid.

The Iraqi threat was never nuclear in nature.

[Error]

While the United States only has Nuclear
weapons and thus views biological and chemical
attacks as WMDs, it was directly implied by the
White house and state department that it was
nuclear weapons they went in to get, not
chemical.

[Yoshi]

"Directly implied" is a fucking oxymoron. Go eat some jumbo shrimp and watch women's sports while you directly imply.

[Error]

"Directly implied" is a fucking oxymoron. Go eat some jumbo shrimp and watch women's sports while you directly imply.

Two positives don't make a negative chum.

[Chux]

While the United States only has Nuclear
weapons and thus views biological and chemical
attacks as WMDs, it was directly implied by the
White house and state department that it was
nuclear weapons they went in to get, not
chemical.

pitch?

[Yoshi]

And your post has nothing to do with anything. Iraq used WMDs in a real attack, which is far more serious than North Korea not using them in a test.

[Error]

pitch?

It's not a song if thats what you're saying. My window started acting funny and I wanted to make sure the message was visable when I posted it so I started hitting enter when the sentence got to the end of the window.

[Chux]

You listen to shitty music.

[Error]

You're right I've had to put up with shit music
for two decades now.

[Gohron]

You do know we have shot down rockets AND falling satellites going in excess of 80,OOO MPH right? I mean justify my faith that we do care enough about our defensive capabilities to know we have this capability in our bag..RIGHT RIGHT?


I guess I'll go way and I mean way out there and assume you read that we sent 3 ships with this exact capability to Korean last weekend.

You people should read more and try to be smartasses less.

An AEGIS cruiser can't shoot down something moving that fast. Hitting a target in the launch phase is much easier but 80,000mph for re-entry is far too fast. An ICBM re-enters at close to 16,000mph and there's a lot of skepticism that even they can be shot down accurately. The Soviets used nuclear tipped ABM's for interception around Moscow.

I'm sure it's possible in a really far-fetched, got real lucky sort of way.