"It's Our Destiny" Bush Seeks Military Control of Space

[norml]

June 3, 2005

"It's Our Destiny"
Bush Seeks Military Control of Space
By BRUCE GAGNON

The Bush administration is expected to soon announce a new national space policy that will give the Pentagon the green light to move toward deployment of offensive weapons in space.

The new directive could allow deployment of lasers in space; attack vehicles that descend on targets from space; killer satellites, which would disrupt or destroy other nation's satellites; and tungsten rods fired from space platforms that would gather speeds of over 7,000 mph and be able to penetrate underground targets.

In the Air Force Space Command's Strategic Master Plan, FY06 and Beyond, the military said, "Our vision calls for prompt global strike space systems with the capability to apply force from or through space against terrestrial targets. International treaties and laws do not prohibit the use or presence of conventional weapons in space."

There was once a treaty that limited the research, development, testing and deployment of such offensive space systems. It was called the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with Russia. Once in office, George W. Bush withdrew the U.S. from the treaty and moved forward with expanded research and development on offensive space weapons





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http://www.counterpunch.org/gagnon06032005.html

[Fridays Child]

1. B*sh will probably call it our "Man-in-Space Destiny."

[neweurope]

2. Well, they said they would. Cant understand why PNAC isn't read by

everybody - in Europe, too. It will make the world more unsafe still, and it will get more countries to try and get nuclear weapons.
By the way: In German the phrase "so-and-so was his/their destiny" is well liked for book titles and such. It always describes a downfall.

on edit: Just how does Bush know that this is "your destiny"? Where is it written, who told him? Speaking to God again, the mass murderer?

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[norml]

3. Mark Drolette: Spaced Cowboy's Space Cowboys (PNAC)

Mark Drolette: Spaced Cowboy's Space Cowboys
Thursday, 2 June 2005, 2:37 pm
Opinion: Mark Drolette

Spaced Cowboy's Space Cowboys

By Mark DroletteAs any politically-minded American should know (which really should mean every American but is about as likely a scenario as George W. Bush correctly speaking English, even by accident, although, I suppose, if you put him inside a room with 1000 monkeys and 1001 typewriters and then locked the doors, you'd have yourself some mighty pissed monkeys), it's never a bad idea to regularly revisit the document that enumerates the core principles by which the American government operates.

With that in mind, it's time once again to delve into the Project for the New American Century's (PNAC) September 2000 report "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century." For those interested in history (before it's rewritten), it used to be, prior to 2001 B.F. (before fascism), America's bedrock principles had been laid out in an old yellowed piece of parchment that contained lots of funny letters and even funnier ideas, with its authors actually asserting (apparently in all seriousness) that said document had been "ordain and establish" to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity."

Can you even imagine?

I don't recall its name, exactly, but it's not important anyway since we haven't used that ratty old thing for some time now and obviously have no plans of ever doing so again. I do think, though, that since "Rebuilding, etc." is now unmistakably el documento numero uno dictating American policy, it certainly could do with a spiffier moniker. Had I, like the Bushies, been using it as my blueprint to militarily take over the world, I'd likely have christened it "Ensuring Military Presence In Regions Everywhere," thereby providing it both title and acronym far more representative of the contents within.


Clumsy label or no, PNAC's RADSFARFANC (I'll do my darnedest to keep all those letters straight as we continue) recently came to mind yet again upon perusing a very brief article from Reuters on Yahoo. (Helpful hint #1 for budding political satirist/commentators: the shorter the item, the more important the topic.)

Headlined "Air Force seeks Bush nod for space weapons-NYT," it leads:





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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0506/S00030.htm

[neweurope]

4. Who is Drolette? I like the way he writes :)

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to the Hague!

[JawJaw]

5. "Eventually, we'll take the WHOLE UNIVERSE"!!!

[sarcasmo]

6. Does this make Cuckoo-Bananas Darth Vader?

[Deja Q]

10. That or Darth Bananas...

[norml]

13. "Your destiny lies with me Skywalker. Obi-Wan knew this to be true."

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[indepat]

7. We are the champions oof the worlddd and are thereby so much safer

[bemildred]

8. You will be assimilated. nt

[Jamison]

9. He's nuts!

Does he think he's going to use Staurn as Lebensraum or something?

[teryang]

11. Let's throw aerospace contractors in a bottomless pit

...instead of our children's futures.

Let's launch the neo-con defense contractor lobbyists into orbit.

This destiny in space shit is a laugh. What about the historic mission in Iraq? Let's talk about the military control they've achieved over there. Was "full spectrum dominance," "Army lite," and "tooth to tail," "a miserable failure?"

Well, I guess it wasn't our destiny.

What a leader! Doesn't this manly rhetoric just make you want to proud to be following a lying, fraudulent, murdering, torturing, war monger?

[wallwriter]

12. How 'bout Iraq? Could we get some military control there?

Or maybe Afghanistan? Wouldn't these be preferable to outer space?

[RedCloud]

14. One direct hit at our plutonium satellite and it's curtains.

You would think even those conservative bozos would shut up about the threat in space as we have the deadliest one up there that will wipe us out when it comes down. Do we have space alien traitors among us?

[nightfox02]

15. that ballsac couldnt understand spaceballs much less weapons in space

This turd needs to go...

We dont need weapons in space when we cant even feed/and or employ our own people.

He is a bastard to the VERY CORE. At times I wonder if Barbara Bush ever had sex with a jackal...