9/11 Questions ~It would be helpful to ask about Star Wars priorities

Editorials 9/11 Questions
It would be helpful to ask about Star Wars priorities
April 8, 2004

When National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice finally testifies today before the special commission investigating the 9/11 attacks, some of the questioning ought to be about missile defense. That was clearly the Bush administration's top security concern in the months while terrorists were plotting to turn commercial airliners into missiles that attacked New York and Washington.

It was, in fact, Michigan U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who prevailed over the Sept. 6, 2001, objections of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in shifting money the administration wanted to spend on the unproven missile defense system into counterterrorism efforts.

The Washington Post reported last week that on the very day of the 9/11 attacks, Rice had been scheduled to deliver a speech on the need for missile defense. The concept has been around since the Reagan era, when it was dubbed "Star Wars." Its most recent incarnations involve a highly sensitive radar umbrella that detects incoming missiles for a pinpoint response that destroys them in the air. The administration is continuing to pursue development of this system, which has delivered mixed results in test-firings.

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Hope the commission is reading, we need to know the answers to these questions.

Apparently, no one is a threat to lob ICBM's at us.....hasn't been a point of discussion since 9/11.

So, that investment would have been just more taxpayer money funding welfare defense contractors and payback for delivering political contributions to the Republican Party.