Congress Balks at Pentagon 'War on Terror' Missile...

[bridgit]

'Congress has stalled Pentagon plans to put conventional warheads on inter-continental missiles for use in Washington's "war on terror", out of concern that they could trigger a nuclear war.

The defense department is seeking $127m (£68m) for the conversion of submarine-based missiles as part of its Global Strike project, aimed at giving Washington the option of acting fast, pre-emptively and from great distances against targets that might threaten the US.

The goal would be to destroy a fleeting target, such as a weapon being assembled or a meeting of terrorist leaders, anywhere in the world within an hour of intelligence reaching the US of their location.

But Congress has held back $32m of the funds until the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, and the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, present a plan to eliminate the risk that other countries mistake the launch of the Trident D-5 missile for a nuclear attack and respond.

"There is great concern this could be destabilizing in terms of deterrence and nuclear policy," Jack Reed, a Democrat on the senate armed services committee, told the New York Times. "It would be hard to determine if a missile coming out of a Trident submarine is conventional or nuclear."'

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0530-02.htm

a "war on terror" missile :wtf: these military-industrial-complex psychotics gone mad, will do & say ANYTHING to pad their pockets

[Pab Sungenis]

1. We've had flocks of GEESE nearly start a nuclear war.

Can you imagine what would happen if Russian or Chinese radar confirmed we had missiles in the air? They'd have no way of knowing conventional or nuclear, and would have to respond.

[bridgit]

2. they just cannot stop...