China and their faith in America’s abilities, lets see if you can read this without laughing -

BEIJING (Reuters) - China is concerned by U.S. plans to shoot down an ailing spy satellite and is considering what "preventative measures" to take, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

"The Chinese government is paying close attention to how the situation develops and demands the U.S. side fulfill its international obligations and avoids causing damage to security in outer space and of other countries," spokesman Liu Jianchao said.

This is pretty much telling the US to not damage the other expensive shit that is up in space. I bet if you looked through a telescope right now, you would see all of China’s satellites moving away from the one we are going to shoot down, because they don’t trust our plan.

So here is how they  are going to do it, and how they convinced other people why it needs to be done.

President George W. Bush has decided to have the Navy shoot the 5,000-pound (2,270 kg) satellite with a modified tactical missile after security advisers suggested its re-entry could lead to a loss of life, U.S. officials said on Thursday.

Now, if I was China, I to would be worried if George Bush and his security advisers are the ones planning how to do this, I personally wouldn’t trust them, with a toy sling shot. Although, China should take some comfort in knowing that Dick Chenney will not be the one shooting.I think America just wants to show off the power of what a, modified 20 - 40 million dollar, tactical missile can do. Chances are, all the government officials will be out on their patios, sitting in lawn chairs, with a cold brew, and waiting for the fireworks.

On a side note, knowing our government, we probably built the missile a long time ago, and kept it hidden because they didn’t want  people to find out that such an absurd amount of money was used to make it. But now they have a found a way to get rid of it, and make it look good in the process, that is if they hit the satellite.

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