Bush Reveals New Missile Defense; Guides Weapon Back To Launching Pad
Rest easy, America, even when you contemplate the abbreviated flight of North Koreas errant but someday, they hope, long-range Taepodong 2 missile a name that, should the nation ever decide to enter the capitalist hustings, doesnt sound like a very promising appellation for a new car.
In the wake of the miscalculated launch of seven missiles by North Korea, including a Taepodong 2, President Bush told reporter Larry Wing in an exclusive interview, Weve got a missile defense system that will defend our country. We dont just shoot down the enemy missile. We guide it back to where it came from. So anybody who launches a missile at the United States of America better clear out, because soon itll be on the way back at them, point first.
The revelation of the innovative missile defense system stunned Mr. Wing. I thought we were still trying to perfect the star wars system initiated by President Reagan, where, if were lucky, we can at least shoot down an enemy missile. But guide it back to the launching pad? This is the first time Ive heard of it.
Well, Larry, as you know, Im the...