Bush wants to spend 2.3 Billion for a Railroad for Star Wars....

[wakeme2008]

http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/09/Worldandnation/Report_links_Alaska_r.shtml


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Report links Alaska rail to military
By Associated Press
Published May 9, 2005

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A rail link between Alaska and Canada, proposed as a faster way to transport natural resources, would also enable the United States to support antiballistic missile silos and military bases, a new study says.

While supporters are playing up the economic advantages, and the Alaskan and Yukon governments have signed an agreement to study the idea, critics say the military uses are likely to stir opposition in Canada, where the continental missile shield project is unpopular.

The report by a Boston firm says the link would benefit the Canadian and U.S. economies, and make it easier for the U.S. military to move its troops through Canada to worldwide theaters of operation such as North Korea.

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The railroad, costing $1.15-billion to $2.3-billion, would allow Washington to develop an Alaskan port to station up to three missile defense ships in the northern Pacific, outside Korean territorial waters, the report said.

..more at link


Bush is trying to kill Amtrak but his money tree has all the money he wants for Star Wars.... :grr:

[Wilber_Stool]

1. I wish he'd spend it on

a railroad named AMTRAK.

[wakeme2008]

3. Sorry corrected nt

[leesa]

2. Well, that's sounds perfectly reasonable...trains to nowhere

for an anti-ballistic progam that doesn't work.

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. Anybody remember Reagan's MX boondoggle? nt

[Dr.Phool]

5. Stop calling it the MX!!!

It was the Peacekeeper. Whatever happened to that boondoggle anyway?

[AzDar]

6. Do y'all think he's more 'Caligula' these days, or 'Nero'? I keep going

back and forth.....lol (bitterly)