Missile, Missile who's got the Missile?

Looks like the Ukraine has misplaced a few HUNDRED Soviet era missiles.

"We are looking for several hundred missiles," Marchuk was quoted as saying in Thursday's edition. "They have already been decommissioned, but we cannot find them".

The weapons did exist at one time, now they have disappeared. This seems to alarm folks... I can't understand why. After all, the same thing has happened in Iraq, yet no one seems to be the least bit alarmed. Weapons once accounted for are no longer in evidence. So what? No, with the Iraq weapons, they are blaming the US for scaremongering. No one appears to be the least bit interested in what happened to weapons that were known to exist prior to 1998. The fact that they've simply disappeared means that Bush and Blair are incompetent (and by the same token so are our intelligence networks).

Now in the Ukraine, they're all upset because some weapons have gone missing. If they're gone, why should we worry about it? Why should we want to find out what happened to them? Why isn't the USA Today accusing the Ukraines of trumping up phantom weapons? Hmmmm?

"They say they were destroyed. OK, destroyed," Marchuk said. "Every such missile has gold, silver, platinum metals. Where are the results of their destruction?"

Marchuk said that when he became minister, "no one knew what the armed forces had," and after nine months in the job he still doesn't have precise information.

If we apply Iraq standards to this problem - there is no problem. So, sleep well tonight my children, all the bad missiles are gone, we don't have to worry about them anymore.

Comments

[Harvey]

EEP!

I'm gonna go huddle in the corner of my basement for a while...

DUCK AND COVER!

[Teresa]

Maybe those bomb drills that Jen Martinez was talking about doing in school will come in handy.