Remember the vaunted Patriot missiles that protected Israel and Saudi Arabia from Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles? The ones that George H.W. Bush claimed had a 97% success rate (41 of 42)? Well, that rate is lower. It might even have been zero. Mind you, that's with 3 or 4 fired against each Scud. Zero shot down. Zip. Zilch. At $1 million to $3 million a pop, even.

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