Missile envy

Feeling safer?

The first test in nearly two years of a multi-billion-dollar US anti-missile shield failed yesterday when the interceptor missile shut down on its launch pad in the central Pacific.

About 16 minutes earlier, a target missile carrying a mock warhead had been launched from Kodiak Island in Alaska, the Pentagon's Missile Defence Agency said.
The aborted mission appeared likely to set back plans for activation of the bulwark against ballistic missiles.

I'm not sure why America at this point would expect any of Bush's promises to come true (this was supposed to be up and running by the end of this year, rain or shine). The only thing we do know is that they always cost the country lots of money.