Bob wrote: >Remember what Bush and company were pushing for before 9/11? The damned > missile defense shield, which would bring huge profits to their whole gang. I > recall talking with friends LAST AUGUST and saying that I felt more of a > threat from terrorism than from some country lobbing a bomb at us . . . and I > am not exactly an expert in international relations.
Just as an aside - significant ongoing funding for the missile defense shield goes back to at least the 1970s and our government and the then Soviet Union were simultaneously working on their respective versions of it since at least that time. As far back as the early 1980s American and Russian astrophysicists were actually sharing a bit of technological information in the area of missile shields back and forth through academic and scientific conferences. Ever since I learned of this (fairly first hand) I've just laughed and shaken my head when Russian representatives protest loudly against *our* developing one and not laughed but just shaken my head that most Americans are not aware of these facts. Kakki
