U.S. Eyes Space as Possible Battleground (Reuters)

U.S. Eyes Space as Possible Battleground
Reuters, Jim Wolf, 1/18/04
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20040118/sc_nm/space_weapons_dc


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President {sic} Bush's plan to expand the exploration of space parallels U.S. efforts to control the heavens for military, economic and strategic gain.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld long has pushed for technology that could be used to attack or defend orbiting satellites as well as a costly program, heavily reliant on space-based sensors, to thwart incoming warheads.

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"Yet the threat to the U.S. and its allies in and from space does not command the attention it merits from the departments and agencies of the U.S. government charged with national security responsibilities," a congressionally chartered task force headed by Rumsfeld reported 10 days before Bush and he took office in 2001.

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Bush's schedule for a U.S. return to the moon matches what experts say may be a dramatic militarization of space over the next two decades, even if the current ban on weapons holds.

Among other things, the Pentagon expects to spend at least $50 billion over the next five years to develop and field a multi-layered shield against incoming missiles that could deliver nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.

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MDN

The jokes are just way, way, way too easy on this one.

check out this website:

Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
http://www.space4peace.org/

Tons of info on this topic

must have not only shared tootpaste but have drunk the Kool Aid on that fateful meeting in Camp David early on where the plans for "Liberation" of the Middle East and Space, also, were laid out.

This had to have been in the works long before this announcement, and also gives even more support to why Bush/Blair are "joined at the hip."

So we are now left with China and Russia who might have some problems with this unless our "alliance with them" and GB isolates the rest of the world which would be the EU and Third World countries. But, perhaps India will be added to the list and Pakistan will be left with the EU?

This is the scariest news I've seen come out of this BFEE. This is not only "world domination," but "Space." They want to go straight to God's Eye. Assume the fundies are at least supportive of heading that way. Unbelievable....so much of this.

Remember Cheney *IS* PNAC. He's following their blueprint precisely.

June 3, 1997
Project for a New American Century
Statement of Principles

<snip>

Our aim is to remind Americans of these lessons and to draw their consequences for today. Here are four consequences:

>we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global
responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;

>we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;

>we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad;

>we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.

Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today. But it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next.

<signatories>

Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle
Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel, Paul Wolfowitz

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

Rebuilding America's Defenses
A Report of the Project for the New American Century
September 2000

In particular, we need to:

ESTABLISH FOUR CORE MISSIONS for U.S. military forces:

> defend the American homeland;
> fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars;
> perform the “constabulary” duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions;
> transform U.S. forces to exploit the “revolution in military affairs;”

To carry out these core missions, we need to provide sufficient force and budgetary allocations. In particular, the United States must:

<snip>

DEVELOP AND DEPLOY GLOBAL MISSILE DEFENSES to defend the American homeland and
American allies, and to provide a secure basis for U.S. power projection around the world.

CONTROL THE NEW INTERNATIONAL COMMONS OF SPACE AND CYBERSPACE,and pave
the way for the creation of a new military service U.S. Space Forces with the mission of
space control.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/15/national/15BUSH.html?pagewanted=2

Bush Backs Goal of Flight to Moon

"The plan was put together under the direction of the National Security Council. Participants said that Vice President Dick Cheney had run several meetings and that the deputy national security adviser, Stephen J. Hadley, had organized many of the options. "The president didn't make these choices, but he approved them," a senior official said."

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Bush's plan:

-- Increases funding to NASA (unlike virtually all other federal agencies).
-- Discontinues existing projects.
-- Establishes new, highly expensive goals (which will require continued massive funding), with
publically verifiable results not to be seen for 10-20 years.

Yeah, it certainly does raise an eyebrow or two.


MDN

away from them. If someone had told me twenty years ago, you know when "Star Wars" was new that all this was going to happen at the turn of the new century I would have laughed them off the planet myself.