People who are opposed to this missile defense endeavour are people who make their living in the "Hate America" industry, or who are being bribed by people who make their living in the "Hate America" industry. They are risking all of our lives for money or empty slogans.

What a bizarre thing to say, beardedbruce (and confirms my suspicion that you don't actually think about what you post before you post it). I am against this missile defense boondoggle, and I haven't received even a penny from the "Hate America" industry.

They are also baby killers, who would rather see the entire world destroyed than admit that stopping a nuclear weapon from going off is a good idea.

The best way to guarantee the destruction of the entire world is for the United States to continue along the path it's on right now. The US government cannot guarantee that no-one, anywhere in the world, will ever be able to deliver and set off a nuclear weapon in the US. Right now, someone with a nuclear bomb could quite easily come into one of our ports in one of our major cities on a yacht or fishing boat. Your 'missile defense' program could not prevent this, and anyone who was seriously intent on destruction would simply find a way to get around it (it's very easy to do). The ONLY way to minimize the possibility of the US being on the receiving end of a nuclear attack is for the US to approach its relationship to the rest of the world in a way that promotes justice rather than its current practice of spreading injustice.

If you are opposed to Global warming, just think about the environmental impact of a nuclear war, and then tell me how we should not try to build methods that keep the nuclear weapons from being used.

Well, the problem is that this system is not trying to build methods that would keep the nuclear weapons from being used. It is simply building more ways to enforce empire at the expense of the rest of the world. If the US really wanted to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons, for instance, it would have accepted Iran's offer of unconditional negotiations shortly after 9/11. The reason the US did not do so is because they wanted a pretext for waging war against Iran (using nuclear weapons in the process).

This is the oppositeof preventing nuclear weapons from being used, and is the most likely of any scenario, of creating a nuclear war that could destroy the world. I tend to think that the US wants this "missile defense" program because it would like to be able to nuke any country it wants to without having to suffer any kind of nuclear response. This system is nothing more than an attempt to create first-strike capabilities for the US. That, and it's also a way to further enrich the war profiteers at the expense of the US taxpayers.