[Dallas59]

Nor-reth Ko-rear better not do anything!!!! We got Obama on our side!!! Go Obama!!!/s

[Mr Ramsbotham]

There is no way North Korea is going to attack the United States. What they’ll do is play brinksmanship until they’re convinced they can attack South Korea with impunity.

[Son House]

Do they have the GPS coordinates so Øbama has a good excuse when it come time to produce a birth certificate?

“The North Koreans desecrated my birth certificate!”

[Signalman]

Quick, we need to send a strongly-worded letter to the N. Koreans. That’ll show ‘em.

[The Duke]

I suggest we move the White House to Hawaii, so that Dear Leader can manage things more closely.

[aviator]

If we REALLY took this seriously, we would bomb the launch site before the missile got airborne!

[Keflavik76]

“A holdover from the Bush administration, Gates must be grateful and appreciative of the irony of having this equipment his new boss, President Obama, has derided as “unproven.”

The new boss has cut missile defense in the new budget just in the nick of time to match our greatest need for it. He doesn’t take his pledge to defend the United States serious as he is too busy micro-managing corporate salaries and firing Inspector Generals.

[Gator113]

Obama just declassified this in hopes of saving lives if things go wrong.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=211172294308374001&hl=en

[parsifal]

Isn’t it curious how nothing has been heard lately about the Truman - MacArthur disagreement? With hindsight, maybe we can finally figure out who was right?

parsy, who believes there is no substitute for Jenna Jameson.

[El Gato]

If, as many believe, NK can't hit Hawaii, they could hit Alaska, say Anchorage, which is considerably closer. Downside to that is, they'd need to fly over Russia's Kamchatca penninsula. Maybe not a Good Idea, even from their point of view.

However they could likely reach the Midway Islands, which are around 1,000 miles closer than Honolulu. The advantage would be that they would make their point, it is US territory, but likely not even hit land, just the lagoon of the atoll.

[TLI]

Call me weird but NK hitting Hawaii with a missile for any reason sounds pretty thin. In fact, no. Right now I am not buying it.

What else is going on out there that would require "deployments" of some sort?

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

Missile defense took a $1.4 billion, or 15%, hit in the Gates-Obama proposed 2010 budget. Several promising programs such as the airborne laser were put on the shelf. The number of those ground-based interceptors at Fort Greely in Alaska and at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California that Gates touted was capped at 30, down from an intended 44.

[cartoonistx]

[boatbums]

How much longer do we have to play footsie with this mentally ill sh_ _-stirrer?

Take out the missile as soon as they put it on the launchpad! And the next one, and the next one, etc. until they get it in their pea-brained heads that the game is over!

[Melissa 24]

It will be interesting to see how NK reacts if we decide to take the missile down with an interceptor…

On second thought I doubt President Barak Hussein Obama has the guts for a shoot down.

[Tzimisce]

Hawaii = big blue state.

They hated and condemned the war on terror, telling us that the US is the bad guys and all our enemy needs is a little understanding. Note that Obama himself claims Hawaii as his home state.

There is something very poetic/ironic in the idea that N Korea might nuke Hawaii....

[mojitojoe]

Ok Odumbo. that does it. Now you need to send them an email and use ALL CAPS THIS TIME. THAT WILL SCARE THEM> BE TOUGH!

[mrsixpack36]

They just want to make themselves relevant. Kim Jung-Il knows the first time he attacks us, he and is country as as good as gone. He has been playing these games for years. The old fool is close to death and wants his son to start out with some respect. I bet things are starting to crack there internally as his son may not be ready to take over.