Has * gone totally insane now???

[MissHoneychurch]

New national space policy released

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Elsewhere, the document notes that the US must not only have the ability to freely access space and stop those who would deny the US that right, the US must be able to "deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to U.S. national interests" — an opening for the development and use of weapons in space, although that's not explicitly stated in the document.

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http://www.spacepolitics.com/archives/001101.html

[bananas]

1. This was in PNAC's "Rebuilding Americas Defenses" nt

[MissHoneychurch]

3. Why do you need to "defense" the U.S. in the space????

:shrug:

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Straight out of it! PNAC = disaster for America

[HuffleClaw]

2. 'star wars' redux

more lavish corporate welfare to defense contractors to build things that will never work.

[ikojo]

4. US National Interests equal

CORPORATE interests.

[Cobalt-60]

6. Its true

We've has all the space weapon tech we've needed since the 1970s.
You can effectively kill a spacecraft by spraying it with black paint or even just strewing gravel in its path.
The other space faring nations will not tolerate orbital weapons, and even the most retarded neocon knows it.
What Corporations want is an endless fountain of cash with no real need to produce results.

[izzie]

5. Some thing else Bush can save us from. Space people.

Plus I am sure some of the makers of this stuff are part of his base money.

[treestar]

10. They are definitely unlawful enemy combatants

Who knows but that they might assist the terrorists? :sarcasm:

[Sugar Smack]

12. LOL!

Space People :spray:

[windbreeze]

7. We'd be far better off...if we

spent that money to replace the antiquated electrical grid everyone in this country depends on day in and day out to keep things going....
wb

[onethatcares]

8. nah, that would make too much sense

we could also really invest in our schools, from elementary to college. We could do so much more with that kind of money but what we'll really get is a bunch of fat politicians telling us how much safer we are being protected from space terrorists...

[peekaloo]

9. Captain Smirk wants to militarize "The Final Frontier".

Jim Beam Me Up!

[bridgit]

11. you tell me...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2418599&mesg_id=2418599

they've been advocating the militarization of space long since bush came along, bush is just another mouth