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Mission To Mars For Military Benefit, Not Just "Spirit Of Discovery&Quot

Posted on Friday, January 16 at 16:22 by N Say
The president's focus on space exploration because it "improves our lives, and lifts our national spirit." However, behind the scenes, USA Today reported that Bush was persuaded to move forward in part due to the military benefits, as promoted to him by Vice President Cheney. The Center for American Progress' Progress Report yesterday noted an appearance by Republican Congressman Tom Feeney on Scarborough Country where he stated, "Somebody is going to dominate space. When they do, just like when the British dominated the naval part of our globe, established their empire, just like the United States has dominated the air superiority, ultimately, whoever is able to dominate space will be able to control the destiny of the entire Earth."

Feeney's comments echo PNAC's September 2000 report Rebuilding America's Defenses, which said, "Much as control of the high seas - and the protection of international commerce defined global power in the past, so will control of the new "international commons" be a key to world power in the future."

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  1. by Dave Ruston
    Sun Jan 18, 2004 7:29 pm
    Yeah, I strongly feel too that the US wants to control the solar system as well as our planet for military dominance. Now, if space exploration was merely for the purposes of innocent discovery to satisfy our human curiosity, then that`s fine. I`m all for it. I`m a closet star trek geek outing myself to all of you. But Before we go off polluting the \'final frontier\', we must clean up the mess here on earth first! Health care, education, eliminate poverty, create new technologies to reduce pollution, etc. We cannot truly evolve as a species unless the people in power allow all citizens the means to self-actualize and evolve as well! Poverty will hamper human kind`s evolution! With increasing poverty, we are shrinking the talent pool needed to invent and innovate all that i mentioned above, including more efficient space travel!

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    Dave Ruston

  2. by N Say
    Sun Jan 18, 2004 7:48 pm
    \"The US is preparing for the invasion of Mars and other planets\" - Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3403581.stm

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    "So many right-wing Christians, so few lions." - t-shirt I saw @ school

  3. by ReynoldR
    Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:59 am
    The Final Frontier is also a Corporate Boondoggle in the view of this writer in the Jan. 18 San Francisco Chronicle.
    An opportunity to plunder \'where no one has plundered before\'.
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 49US71.DTL



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