Rumsfeld eyes ICBMs in terror war

[Poiuyt]

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Sunday warned North Korea may pose a threat as a weapons seller to terrorists and that America would consider taking the nuclear warheads off intercontinental ballistic missiles so they could be used against terrorists.

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The re-tipped missiles would offer the ability to accurately and quickly target such groups as the threat they pose grows due to their acquisition of weapons of mass destruction and other lethal weapons from proliferators, Rumsfeld said.

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Standing next to his Russian counterpart, Rumsfeld said he hoped Russia would consider the same plan.

But Ivanov said Russia had concerns and that there may be other solutions for preemptive strikes, such as the use of intermediate-range missiles, now prohibited by a treaty agreement.

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http://reuters.excite.com//article/20060828/2006-08-28T014122Z_01_N27209250_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-ARMS-USA-MISSILES-DC.html

[saltpoint]

1. I wonder if there's anybody in the inner circles of government in DC

who doesn't think Don Rumsfeld is crazier than a shithouse rat.

[PATRICK]

2. Insane

if the missile FAILS there goes a lot of respect for our so-called missile defense OR the ranting threat from a NK erector set counterpart. Or maybe it was a joke on the Russians who most certainly don't want to show their own rusting junkers splashing into the ocean. Or maybe our armaments are so depleted that we have to waste a lot of rocket fuel to propel a conventional payload with a fraction of the accuracy. Long range ICBM's? Russia only needs intermediate, unless we are the target. Someday from the comfort zone of the oval office or some phony ranch in Texas, some future Tinpot will get to try out the satellite death rays and drones and missiles for fun, but it wouldn't doing anything practical except satisfy psychos.

But the Soviets were quick to see if the idiot would trash a missile treaty that would give THEM some benefit. Rumsfeld probably missed that by a mile, like the ICBM's would.

This guy has long been a candidate for a Bush ear plant.

[Capt_Nemo]

4. So, the russians are looking for another quid pro quo from the bushies...

Russia wants to pull out of the INF Treaty

"Trying to come up with at least some kind of justification for the itch to end the INF Treaty, the official said that "Russia has other neighbors , countering which can be better done with medium-range missiles, not with intercontinental ones. And these missiles don't have to carry nuclear warheads.""

Any bet on who are these neighbours they have in their sights?

[Subdivisions]

3. That's one good way to

get rid of the stock you have so your military industrial complex can profit from replacing them.

[MiniMe]

5. I think ICBS

from Rummy

[Hubert Flottz]

6. We need some V weapons to be real Nazis!

Rumbo knows Blitzkrieg!