[NYTr] Dems Do It Again - This Time on "Missile Defense"

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

Global Network - Sep 17, 2007
http://www.space4peace.org

DEMS DO IT AGAIN - THIS TIME ON "MISSILE DEFENSE"

The people in the Czech Republic are overwhelmingly opposed to the
coming U.S. deployment of a Star Wars radar in their country. Similarly
the people of Poland oppose the U.S. plan to put ten "missile defense"
interceptors in their country. Both countries now have right-wing
governments who have crawled into the U.S. "orbit" and are ignoring
their own people's demands.

On September 13 Central European Social Democrat parties (Germany,
Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia) met and
rejected the U.S. deployment plan saying it threatened to bring about a
new arms race.

But of course there was a fly in the ointment. A visiting senior
U.S. Democrat said her party was behind the project.

"We wanted to come today to make very clear that we are very
supportive... of missile defense," Ellen Tauscher, chairwoman of
the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee, said after
meeting Czech Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra in Prague.

She added that she hoped negotiations [that would seal the deployment
deal] with the Czechs and the Poles would be concluded soon.

Rep. Tauscher (from Walnut Creek, California) is a tool of the
military industrial complex. Just a few months ago she led an effort
to reject the recommendations of a House of Representatives
sub-committee that had suggested serious cuts in the "Missile Defense
Agency" research and development budget for fiscal year 2008.

She, and Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA), restored $150 million to Pentagon
boost-phase missile defense programs, $48 million for future missile
defense systems - including space sensors, $12 million more for
sea-based sensors, and language to allow $160 million for the highly
controversial European missile defense plan.

Her job in attending the meeting of Central European Social Democrats
last week was a preemptive strike. The Democrats, who are likely
to take the White House back in 2008, are letting the world know
that they are committed partners to the Bush program of expanded
U.S. global military empire and development of U.S. preemptive
first-strike technology. The Democratic Party, under the control
of the military industrial complex, are out trying to damper down
any opposition to "missile defense". They have essentially become
the agents, or sales people, for the weapons industry.

Russia knows that the U.S. is out to militarily surround them with
these deployments in Poland and the Czech Republic in addition to
the present campaign of NATO expansion into Central and Eastern
Europe.

Vladimir Putin's recent comments should be heard by everyone paying
attention to this new powder keg issue: "Once the missile defense
system is put in place it will work automatically with the entire
nuclear capability of the U.S. It will be an integral part of the
U.S. nuclear capability....An arms race is unfolding. Was it we who
withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty? We already told
[Bush] two years ago, don't do this; you don't need to do this.

What are you doing? You are destroying the system of international
security....Of course we have to respond to it."

I can tell you what the U.S. is doing. It is creating a new arms
race that will benefit the aerospace industry. The goal is to bring
on-line new high-tech space weapons technology that will ultimately
give the Pentagon the ability to "control and dominate" space and
the Earth below. And the Democrats? Their job is to help keep the
program funded and alive. They continue to show who their real
masters are. They do not work for you and I.

The Democrats are working for the interests of corporate globalization.
The New World Order has fully taken control of both political parties
in the U.S.

If we want to stop a new and deadly arms race the peace movement
in the U.S. must abandon any illusion that the Democrats will save us
in 2008.


Bruce K. Gagnon Coordinator Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
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