CNN.com reports:

A test of the U.S. missile defense system failed Monday when an interceptor missile did not launch from its island base in the Pacific Ocean, the military said. It was the second failure in months for the experimental program.

This is the missle system Georgie has already started deploying at Fort Greely, Alaska, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. That the Pentagon can't even get the thing to launch in a test is troubling to say the least. How safe do you feel? Each one of these "tests" costs U.S. tax payers $85 million. We can pay a lot of teachers with $85 million, or support a lot of after-school literacy programs, or even help a lot of people pay for housing with that $85 million, or even fight terrorism with that $85 million. Seems Georgie has a taste for spending millions and billions on policies and programs that fail, and fail, and fail again.
posted by Idle Crank at 2/14/2005 03:08:00 PM