[link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A700-2004Dec15.html|http://www.washingto...00-2004Dec15.html]

The Bush administration's effort to build a system for defending the country against ballistic missile attack suffered an embarrassing setback yesterday when an interceptor missile failed to launch during the first flight test of the system in two years.

Pentagon officials could not immediately explain the reason for the failure. They said some kind of anomaly prompted the automatic shutdown of the launch sequence just 23 seconds before the interceptor was due to take off from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. Plans had called for the interceptor to soar into space and knock down a mock warhead fired from Kodiak Island in Alaska about 16 minutes earlier.
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Its never going to work and nobody who hates us uses missles anyway. Why bother when you can use cars, airplanes, and rubber boats?