The Anomalies of the Missile Defense System

Mr. Bush and Mr. Rumsfeld and their friends are trying to get a missle defense system working and they have been having a lot of trouble. Yesterday, they tried again to get it to work and it didn't work because of "some kind of anomaly." They aren't telling us what that is, it's probably something silly like they forgot to plug it in, or push the little red button.

They have delayed this test for several days because of the weather. I think that's kind of funny, because I bet the bad guys will attack us just as much on rainy days as sunny days.

And another funny part of this is that Bush and his friends are pressuring Canada to support this even though public opinion polls in Canada show that most Canadians don't want to.

Prime Minister Paul Martin said in television interviews Tuesday night that his country will participate in a U.S. missile defense system only if it does not have to contribute money, no missiles are based in Canada, and Canada has a say in how the system is run.

What is it that Mr. Bush and his friends wants Canada to do if they are not contributing money, or agree to have missles in Canada? Maybe I just know enough about this missle defense thingy.

This whole thing is pretty embarrassing for Mr. Bush because he made it a big part of his campaign. I think people think the whole shooting-missles-out-of-the-sky-thingy is pretty neat. But if it doesn't really work very well, I think they should test it more, or find a better way to do it.

And then when the Pentagon officials were asked about actually implementing this system, Lawrence Di Rita said:

"the test was not connected to any decisions about operational capability"

That's what I really like to see in the defense department. Deciding that this system is operational, even though the test aren't successful. That's really scary.