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International News Title: U.S. Funds Israeli Missile Defense But Can’t Get the Technology The United States has spent over $200 million on a highly effective missile defense system and plans to spend nearly $700 million more on it yet U.S. troops in the field, including the highest-ranking military officer in the land, are still largely at the mercy of insurgents rockets. Why? The broad outlines of the Iron Dome system are widely understood: Its a mobile set of interceptor batteries capable of shooting down rockets that adversaries launch from a distance of between five and 40 kilometers difficult targets to hit, since they fly low, in a straight line, and quickly.... Using radar and a bit of math, the Iron Dome software figures out if a rocket is likely to land near a populated area. If so, Iron Dome fires its interceptor; if not, it finds a rocket that might. The Israelis say it has an 80 percent success rate, Ackerman adds, which is all the more impressive when considering that the rockets Iron Dome shwacks can take as little as five seconds to hit a target. Iron Dome was developed and built by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd., an Israeli government-owned, profit-making company that, since 2004, has been headed by retired Vice Adm. Yedidia Yaari, the former commander in chief of the Israel Navy. Rafaels board chairman is retired Maj. Gen. Ilan Biran, former general director of the Ministry of Defense. In August, Rafael joined Raytheon Co. to market the Iron Dome system worldwide. The two are already partners in one of the other anti-missile systems that is being jointly run by Israel and the Pentagon. When it comes to Iron Dome, however, Rafael is playing things very close to the vest. House Armed Services Committee spokesman Claude Chafin told Ackerman that the U.S. doesnt have the necessary transparency into the details of Iron Dome that it has with other U.S.-Israeli anti-missile partnerships. So here is the United States, having added to its own deficit by spending funds that it must borrow, helping to procure a missile defense system for Israel, which faces the threat but supposedly cant pay for it alone. There is no guarantee, of course, that Iron Dome would be effective in protecting U.S. troops from insurgents rockets. But for $900 million, Washington ought at least to have a chance to find out.
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Obama is a muslim. Since he is a muslim his loyalties are to the mulims, not Americans. Israel would be foolish to give this information to Iran. Which is where it would end up if they told Obunghole anything.
So you are ok with ths? Our soldiers in harms way because a bastard parasite state chooses to use them as pawns? You seem to worship the bastard state without abandon...perhaps you and goldi-lox can get a package deal on an 'Aliyah armageddonite package' to the promised land. Hell, I might even chip in a few shekels... By ship of course and yes...you share quarters! Hey sally...did you a favor with the pic. Love, kisses...and slab bacon to ya!
If Stone really cared, he' get over to Israel with a pick and shovel, and dig a Sadam Hussein hideout-hole for Bebe. Why should the US taxpayer get stuck?
That is pretty much what I'm saying, indeed! Would still help fund their 'transfer' if I knew it to be final...
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