Reply #11: Another complication: Condi's 9/11 speech on Missile Defense was upstaged. [View All]

[JohnOneillsMemory]

The PNAC neocons most cherished tactic for world domination besides owning the Middle East oil is the weaponization of space, the ultimate 'air dominance.'

That's what they were laser-focused on (pun intended) instead of the 'unswatted flies' that killed 3000 Americans and blew up the Pentagon.

So this 9/11 catastrophe put their Star Wars plans on the back burner where they had put Clinton's and Richard Clarke's anti-terrorism efforts.

It seems that LIHOP, MIHOP, and systemic incompetence were ALL exploited at the same time and used to increase the defense budget and remilitarize and weaponize the entire American public culture so the 'anti-terror' efforts could feed their Star Wars efforts.

Look at the first weapon in space going up this summer and realize that this is what these neocons REALLY WANT to use to take over the world:

(check out the links to many sources at the bottom of the page including the US Missile Defense Agency, NASA, the PNAC, ABC News, Washington Post, etc.)

http://www.tmtmetropolis.ru/stories/2004/04/09/120.html
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And the boys in Space Command are just getting warmed up. They wowed the salivating Bushist faithful in Congress with highly detailed plans for a whizbang space arsenal led by the "Rods From God" -- bundles of tungsten rods fired from orbiting platforms, hurtling toward earth at 3,700 meters per second, accurate within a range of 8 meters and able to destroy even the most hardened targets, the Center for Defense Information reports. They could be launched at only a few minutes' notice at any target on the planet.

"God's Rods" will be accompanied by orbiting lasers, "hunter-killer" satellites, and space bombers that needn't bother with silly-billy legal worries about "overflight rights" from other countries, but can descend out of the ether to swoop down on any uppity nation that displeases the world-Caesar in Washington.

This belligerent Buck-Rogering, long a gleam in many a militarist's eye, gained relentless momentum with the arrival of Don Rumsfeld as Pentagon war chief. In the late 1990s, while helping Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz plot their "Project for the New American Century" -- wholesale militarization of U.S. policy, aggressive war (including the invasion of Iraq even if Saddam Hussein was no longer there), "global dominance" of "vital energy resources," etc. -- Rumsfeld also headed a "blue-ribbon panel" of the usual Establishment worthies looking into "the role of space in national security." Their conclusion? You guessed it: Rummy said America must garrison the heavens to prevent a -- wait for it -- "space Pearl Harbor."

Oddly enough, over at PNAC, at about the same time, Rummy and Cheney were speaking openly about the possibility of a "new Pearl Harbor" that would "catalyze the American people" into supporting their plans, which were published in September 2000. Space weaponization -- via "missile defense" -- was an essential part of the scheme. Once in office, they shoveled billions to their favored defense cartels and fast-tracked space-weapon programs. Indeed, National Security Advisor Condi Rice intended to crown these early efforts with a major speech enshrining the Bush Regime's "top priority" for national security: "missile defense."