NYT/Reuters: Pentagon Weapons Buyer Backs Space Missile Plan

[DeepModem Mom]

Pentagon Weapons Buyer Backs Space Missile Plan
By REUTERS
Published: May 10, 2006

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's top weapons buyer has endorsed a controversial plan that could lead to a multibillion-dollar U.S. missile defense component in space and strain ties with China, Russia and other countries.

At issue is what the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency calls a space-based "test bed.'' It would initially involve as few as one or two interceptor missiles designed to shoot down ballistic missiles possibly tipped with nuclear, chemical or germ warheads.

"I'm supportive of creating a test bed,'' Kenneth Krieg, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. "And then we'll see what we do with it afterwards.''

The Missile Defense Agency plans to seek $45 million in seed money to start building the experimentation center in the fiscal year that starts October 1, 2007.

The project would gauge the value of putting interceptor missiles in space to strengthen the U.S. anti-ballistic missile shield being developed on the ground, at sea and aboard a modified Boeing Co. jumbo jet equipped with an airborne laser....

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-arms-space-usa.html?_r=1&oref=login

[Old and In the Way]

1. Yet another reason to get these bastards out.

Another offensive weapon system that'll burn more money we don't have, to fight a threat that doesn't exist with a system that won't work. It will surely create more world-wide enemies, which the paranoids that run our government today seem to want.

[ShockediSay]

2. Anyone else think his next job might be related

to this rip off of the Average American Taxpayer?

A Lobbyist or corporate arms contractor?

[lapfog_1]

3. Read the PNAC documents carefully...

this was next in the playbook!!!