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RoperAB

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Oldtimer said:
Roper- I wonder if the Canadian PM will rethink supporting Bush on the missile defense system he wanted to build and Canada turned down?...

If this missile fizzled after a few seconds- the next one he may aim at Seattle- and hit Calgary :wink:

Missile defence is unpopular with liberals. Honestly I have no idea why?
If we dont take part and a missle comes through Canadian air space you guys are just going to shoot it down over us. If it was a nuke we will get the fallout. If we take part in missile defence the missile will get shot down before it gets to Canada. Honestly I dont understand the liberal opposition to missile defence?
Harpers Conservative Government is a minority government.
Say if Harper agreed to MD. Im thinking this would bring the government down because the liberals would go to war over this issue.
Our parliment system is not like yours.
What I can see happening is Harpers minority government governing for another year. Then going to another election about something besides Missile Defence. You see the liberals will twist this issue around to Harper being a yes man to the Americans, Bush puppet, etc.
What is important is that if Harper keeps doing such a good job I think he will get a MAJORITY government in the next election. With A majority conservative government I can see us signing on to missile defence.
Im also pretty sure we will have another Federal Election in the next two years or sooner. Maybe much sooner because minority governments tend to last less than a year. If an election was held tommorow on something other than MD I think the Conservatives would win with more seats than they have right now.
My question for you is does missile defence work? Remember the scuds in Israel during gulf war #1?
Is it the same tech?
 

RoperAB

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Oldtimer said:
If this missile fizzled after a few seconds- the next one he may aim at Seattle- and hit Calgary :wink:

If it hit Calgary the liberals in Quebec and Ontario would laugh their asses off! Im not jokeing either.
 
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My question for you is does missile defence work? Remember the scuds in Israel during gulf war #1?
Is it the same tech?

Roper- I don't know- I really haven't followed this system too much...

Those in the know, tell me the Patriot system they used on the scuds has been greatly improved...When they used them during the Gulf War they were brand new and hadn't even been thru much testing or training with the crews - just brought up to make Israel feel better....
 

Ben H

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Actually, missiles are designed to only detonate the warhead on the target. You would not have fallout from one being intercepted. The main reason for this is in case of an accidental malfunction in the airspace of the country who launched it.
 

IL Rancher

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You would still have uranium in your countyside.. So while it wouldn't be detonation fall out it would still have some radioactive crude laying around, like a dirty bomb.
 

RoperAB

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Years ago one of your bombers crashed on its way to Alaska. It crashed in remote British Columbia on top of a mountain. It had nukes on board. Took years to find it and recover the nukes.
Now the nukes were intact and no radiation leaked.

But when that Soviet sattelite crashed in the Canadian artic that was the same thing as getting hit by a Dirty Bomb. Cost us a fortune to try to clean it up but its not something you can really clean up.

Hope your right Ben H. about the nukes.
I hope your right OT about MD. Thats quite a thing to achieve. Shooting a missile out of the air. Sort of like shooting a bullet to hit another speeding bullet. Quite a thing!
 

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