Canadian personalities demand Ottawa withdraw from US anti-missile shield

[DuctapeFatwa]

A hundred well-known Canadians on Thursday called on their government to pull out of talks with Washington on participation in the US space-based anti-missile shield.
"Canadian involvement in US missile defense would undermine decades of Canadian efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons," they said in an open letter to Prime Minister Paul Martin.

"It would represent our acquiescence and willingness to become an active participant in a permanent nuclear future," said the letter. "As such, it would directly collide with the wishes of the Canadian people who have expressed overwhelming support for nuclear disarmament."

Canadian participation in the US defense system "would require the reversal of a 30-year Canadian policy opposing the weaponization of space," said the letter.

http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040318213645.mhrmmhtq.html

[burrowowl]

1. At least some people

have some sense.
The missile shield is useless and worse a waste of wealth that would be better spent elsewhere.

[ironflange]

3. Tsk tsk tsk

You'll be singing a different tune when them North Korean nukes start dropping from the sky.

:evilfrown:

[TrogL]

4. The anti-missile shield couldn't hit them

The whole thing is pointless.

Martin wants a piece of the action developing it.

[burrowowl]

7. Say what!

The NK don't even have enough electricity to power the people let alone power other shit.
Give me a break! Do you realize how much nuke/missile power the U$has!? NK Launches one and .... the world is gone.

[Kool Kitty]

2. What anti-missile shield?

I always find it amusing that the same people that think that global warming is a hoax find this boondoggle perfectly plausible.

[Minstrel Boy]

5. Martin's acquiescing on Star Wars was a quid pro quo.

Remember the concession on the Iraq war spoils from Bush, permitting Canadian firms to bid on the "rebuilding", though Canada, under Chretien, did not join the "coalition of the willing"?

Then, soon after, Canada announces it's joining talks on missile defense.

Think one has anything to do with the other?

Online petition: No Star Wars for Canada! http://www.ndp.ca/Starwars/SWpetition.php

[bobthedrummer]

6. Here is the USAF 2025 vision, and owning space is part of it, baby!

http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/

What other societies were ruined by militarism, all empires have fallen that went that way.

Dennis Kucinich is opposed to space-based weapons.

That's another point that I agree with DK on, the militarization of space:wtf:???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:argh: