
Well I think I found a more reliable source than the Pajamas Media to affirm that the Bush administration is indeed looking to weaponize space. The article itself talks about just restricting hostile forces from utilizing space themselves and declares that the US itself is not looking to put weapons in space. Generally speaking when the Bush Administration says one thing, they mean the opposite. Maybe Bush's Death Star may not be such a far off quack of an idea after all.
Assuming I am correct and this is the next step in global warfare, it will be interesting to see just how the Russians will deal with it. While the US builds weapons in space (while saying it isn't) in order to intimidate its enemies, said enemies can do more immediate damage at home without the untold cost of billions in space weapons technology.
One example (before I leave you to read the below article) is that the Iranians as well as other oil producers have begun to move away from the dollar to the euro. Thus we are being economically attacked now and building a Death Star or even the conventional missile shield is not going to protect from an increasingly hostile world market nor will it divorce us from the oil that empowers our enemies in the first place.
A senior Russian space official sharply criticized an assertive new U.S. space policy signed by President George W. Bush, saying Wednesday that it would increase tension and could lead to military confrontation in space, the Interfax news agency reported.
In the first revision of U.S. space policy in nearly a decade, Bush signed an order earlier this year asserting the United States' right to deny adversaries access to space for hostile purposes and saying the United States will oppose treaties or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit U.S. access to or use of space.
"This document can be seen today as the first step toward a serious deepening of the military confrontation in space," Interfax quoted Vitaly Davydov, deputy head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, as saying.
"Now the Americans are saying that they want not only to go to space but they want to dictate to others who else is allowed to go there," Davydov said, according to the report.
The order says the United States will "preserve its rights, capabilities, and freedom of action in space; dissuade or deter others from either impeding those rights or developing capabilities intended to do so" and "deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to U.S. national interests."
Davydov criticized what he said were U.S. plans to deploy weapons in space and said that Russia could respond if the United States does so.
The White House has said the policy does not call for the development or deployment of weapons in space.
As the U.S. space policy was being reviewed last year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov threatened retaliatory steps if any country put weapons in space.
Moscow's concerns about space-based weapons go back to the Soviet-era space race and U.S. President Ronald Reagan's 1980s plans for a "Star Wars" missile defense system.
Bush's order, signed more than two months ago, was not publicly announced.
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