http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/22/161938.shtml The War Over Space
Charles R. Smith
Friday, Jan. 23, 2004
"Political Combat Over Space Defenses"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Stand by for a war over space. While questions still remain over the technical capability of a missile defense, the success or failure of a future space war will be dominated more by earthly politics and money than by star-wars-like science.
The new National Missile Defense system is slated to go online this year. In response, political efforts inside Moscow and Beijing are under way to handicap the United States missile defense program with international treaties and internal politics.
The American political opposition to a national missile defense will pick up as information becomes available from Russia and China, forcing the issue to become part of the 2004 presidential election.
Democrat opponents of President Bush's plan to field a missile defense in 2004 have much in common with Moscow and Beijing. They clearly do not want the U.S. to defend itself in the face of a growing threat and fear changing the status quo of mega-death nuclear retaliation that dominated the last half of the 20th century."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040127-104204-7567r.htm "Libyan weapons program materiel arrives in U.S."
By Joseph Curl
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A U.S. plane carrying 55,000 pounds of equipment from Libya's nuclear-weapons and missile programs landed yesterday at an airport near Knoxville, Tenn., a delivery that the White House said proves the value of taking pre-emptive action against Iraq.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who is trying to break out of diplomatic isolation and wants the United States to lift economic sanctions against his North African nation, promised Dec. 19 to end development of nuclear and all other weapons of mass destruction."