On the recordJune 10, 1999
For all those naysayers, today the THAAD program had a very successful intercept. We hit a bullet with a bullet. Not only did we hit the target, we hit it right in the spot where that target would be eliminated so that the trajectory of the missile would not continue on into where our troops would be held. So for all of those people who stood on the House floor and said missile defense does not work, the technology is not there, it is a failure, guess what, Mr. Chairman, today we hit a bullet with a bullet. We solved the problem that people said we could not solve. I just want to thank my colleagues on both sides of the aisle who had the good common sense to understand that American technology can do anything, and we are never going to have a case where those 28 brave young Americans, half of whom were from my State, came back to their homeland in a body bag because we could not defend a missile attack against them.
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