Ironic Lemons

Bush is like a kid in a toy store. He still hasn´t given up on his "Star Wars" missile system, a project that was started ages ago and would cost tax payers billions. The Pentagon has already used tax-payer dollars to buy 30 "interceptor" missiles that don't work, dollars that would have been better spent on education or saving welfare and social security.

But doesn´t the Pentagon´s persistence beat all?! They want to invest in more of these lemons. I know where they´re coming from: quantity breeds quality. If we buy enough of em, one of ems gotta work!

However, Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) introduced an amendment to cut the money for the extra missiles and spend it instead on nuclear nonproliferation programs. Now that is bold! We have enough bombs to bomb the whole world over four times. Why not spend the money we´ve set aside to work on our "five times over" goal to the prevention of a nucleat holocaust. Well, the irony is still sinking in, but I guess irony is better than wasted American tax dollars.

And the icing on the cake is that these programs have been proven to work, actually keeping nuclear weapons out of the "bad guys´" hands! Maybe some day they´ll prove useful in keeping American proliferation of nuclear weapons at bay.

To let your senators know that you´d rather see positive programs than military duds, you can send them a message by clicking I prefer milk duds!