Gates To N. Korea: We Can Destroy Missile

U.S. Defense Secretary Confident Long-Range Missile Could Be Shot Down

(AP)  Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expressing confidence that the United States can shoot down any North Korean missile fired toward America.

Gates told U.S. lawmakers at a hearing Tuesday that the U.S. would have a "high probability of being able to defend ourselves" if the North fired a long-range missile.

He says U.S. missile interceptors "are fully adequate to protect us from the North Korean threat for a number of years."

He says that if the North Korean "threat" should change, the United States could easily expand its missile interceptor force.

North Korea has announced that it tested a nuclear device and is apparently assembling for a long-range missile test.

[cgillasp]

I don't care what is done, I'd support any war to any lengths, but the powers that be that are ionizing/vaporizing or whatever they are doing to control the very AIR we breathe has to stop. It is ******* idiotic and barbaric and unconstitutional.

[geminispyder-2009]

North Korea today said it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked ?

Our Predators and STEALTH are ready....
Posted by vietnamwar at 3:53 PM : Jun 9, 2009

Someone forgot to tell the North Koreans that their people can't fight if they're not fed.

[Dgunner]

Quack quack quack, What a delightful sound to hear until it won't shut up . Then we cut off his head and eat him. My duck my duck cried the boy what will i ever do? You can pull up a chair and stop quacking!

[sean58z]

An interception base (ABMS) could be built in the Pacific Ocean. There are several prime island groups for missiles. America should leave South Korea. Pyong Yang easily launches missiles, fires rockets, and drops shells into that target area.

[armyoftwelve]

The long range missles don't scare me, what scares me is the stuff pointed at Seoul and US bases ON the peninsula...

[vietnamwar]

U.S. missile interceptors "are fully adequate to protect us from the North Korean threat for a number of years."

FYI for at least 8 years when Bush was in the office...

[vietnamwar]

North Korea today said it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked ?

Our Predators and STEALTH are ready....

[vietnamwar]

Gates To N. Korea: We Can Destroy Missile
U.S. Defense Secretary Confident Long-Range Missile Could Be Shot Down

Thank you reagan, Thank you Bush and thank you Jr Bush and thank you all Rep.
Now we have a defense system in place.....

[CLoverNYC1]

Cut off Kim Jung Il's dvd supply and Hair Club for Men subscription.

He'll die of boredom.

[ToolMangler1]

HU HU HU, BENG BENG BENG
But when it comes to Israel, They are all peace missiles.
Posted by heibett at 11:25 AM : Jun 9, 2009



That made no sense, try again.

[cbsantispin]

North Korea today said it would use nuclear weapons in a "merciless offensive" if provoked ? its latest bellicose rhetoric apparently aimed at deterring any international punishment for its recent atomic test blast.

The U.S. and NATO are suppose to sit back while North Korea perfects long range missiles that can reach the Continental United States and its allies using hostile and provocative rhetoric like this? North Korea fails to appreciate the obvious, those it threatens with nuclear weapons already have them! You scare someone enough they may surprise you.

[heibett]

HU HU HU, BENG BENG BENG

But when it comes to Israel, They are all peace missiles.