posted on December 30, 2000 08:01:31 AM new
BUSH-RUMSFELD MISSLE PLAN MEANS BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE CONTRACTORS
Forget his experience and forget his connection to the Bush administration as well as every Republican administration since Warren Harding. It turns out that one of the main reasons Donald Rumsfeld was selected to be Sec. of Defense one more time is that he's the man behind the Bush missle defense plan.
Never mind that the Bush missle defense plan is the son of Reagan's failed Star Wars proposal, never mind that $5 billion has been spent this year alone in proving that the proposed system does not work, never mind that going ahead with such a system will pour untold billions down a defense sinkhole and be "politically and diplomatically divisive," never mind that future attacks on the U.S. are more likely to be by biological non-missles than nuclear missles.
Bush has no previous background on the subject of missle defense and has neither the interest nor the ability to form one at this late date. This is one of those deals that he promised, where he gets others to do the homework and present their findings and opinions in fifteen minutes before he begins to lose focus and is in need of a quick nap or a mid-day break to play with his baseball video games or to go running. Since he's unwilling/unable to read complex summaries of long position papers, what ultimately happens is he goes with his experiences as a failed businessman and a successful politician, rather than someone capable of absorbing and thinking through complex presentations.
In short, Bush will go with a missle defense system that has all the earmarks of failure because the people who supported him will make billions and billions from the defense contracts whether the system works or not, and shadow president Dick "Haliburton" Cheney, who has made his
fortune from government contracts, will be glad to rubberstamp Bush's decision as being "wise." After all, isn't that why Bush was chosen by the wealthy and the Supreme Court, to get the money out of government and back into the hands of his CEO backers?
--Politex, 12/30/00
Now, I had previously thought that Reagan's "Star Wars" program was a masterful piece of poker play, a bluff, which caused the Soviet Union to bleed their economy to near death in the hopes of creating a system like what they THOUGHT the U.S. would have, and was a primary reason for the ultimate demise of the Soviet 'empire'. I thought that Reagan, et al, knew that it wouldn't work, but convinced the Soviets that it would. Anyway, talk of it died away quickly after the crash of the eastern bloc.
But no one told GW? Is he only interested in maybe being able to play an ultimate arcade game?
Who pays for this? Republican "tax break" believers?
posted on December 30, 2000 08:18:09 AM new
Shucks - Nothing works perfect at first. They just need a little practice before North Korea lobs one over.
posted on December 30, 2000 12:09:22 PM new
You posted as I edited, Ken. Sorry for the mistake. (Teach me to read more closely the first time.)
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posted on December 31, 2000 11:31:08 AM new
Hi Shar! Isn't he cute in that hat? Makes his eyes look even closer together! I think it makes him look a bit like Alfred E. Newman.
