Chinese Missile Makes 'Direct Hit' On White House.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

Who'da thunk that the Chinese might respond to the Fratboy's StarWars missile rattling?

http://www.watchingamerica.com/liberation000078.shtml

Has Star Wars been revived? The missile that China launched last week in the direction of one of its aging weather satellites shook the planet from Washington to Tokyo on Friday.

At a time when China is strengthening its military arsenal, modernizing its nuclear forces and is sending men in space, the "satellite killer" landed a direct hit on the White House. In theory, this means that American military spy satellites, even those that detected the explosion, are in shooting range of the Chinese.

Gordon Johndroe, spokesman of the U.S. President's National Security Council, stated that, "The U.S. believes China's development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of cooperation that both countries aspire to in the civil space area." A front-page news item in the International Herald Tribune pointed out on Friday that George Bush had authorized a new space program last August, ignoring the protests of Russia and China. According to the American newspaper, the Bush Administration authorized studies into laser based, anti-satellite weapons, which would be faster and more powerful than its ancestors from the 1980s.

Is China trying to counter these plans? For one expert, again quoted by the Herald Tribune, the Chinese launch is intended to, "increase the pressure on the United States to negotiate space disarmament."

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

1. Jeez, don't scare people like that.

Until I read the complete article, it sounded like the missile had actually hit the White House.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. That's the article header, not mine.

[Posteritatis]

7. Yeah, it was one hell of a letdown. :( (nt/jk)

[Rex]

2. The Chinese MADE George BEG them for our spyplane back!

AFTER they learned everything they could from the technology. China OWNS us.

[mykpart]

5. Absolutely right!

And no one EVER talks about that spyplane incident! RWers seem to have forgotten it ever happened.

[Rex]

6. Buried it like all the other dirty details.

That is why they are the M$M and NOT news channels. News channels would tell the truth and not hide stories that were politically inconvenient.

[Vincardog]

4. MAkes you wonder what the Chimp who would be king thought would happen?

Did the moron in chief think he could bully the Chinese?

[MadMaddie]

8. This is a direct result of Reagan, *Senior and* Junior

Saber rattling....

While they took their eyes off of true threats....the Chinese were always capable of this....

Another monumental fuck up...

[and-justice-for-all]

9. Space is not property for the taking....

..Nor is it for sale or up for grabs. China like alot of other countries are really sick of the States bullying practices, more counteries will be flexing their muscles or posturing and the States can not attack everyone or make everyone bow to their will.

Does "Space Disarmament" mean bringing down spy satillites and the like?