-Caveat Lector- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: End Star Wars Boondoggle Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 22:41:57 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Deja.com To: undisclosed-recipients:; The following letter was published in The Hartford Courant on 6 Jan 2001 and is posted at: http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll? bfromind=1853&eeid=3782173&eetype=article&render=y&ck=&userid=297480499& userpw=.&uh=297480499,2,&ver=2.11 Caspar Weinberger was the most wasteful secretary of defense in U.S. history. Will there be another major plunder of the U.S. Treasury under Rumsfeld? Domenico Rosa -------------------------------------- Time To End Star Wars Boondoggle The Bush administration's plan to continue the Star Wars project must be stopped [news story, Dec. 29, "Rumsfeld Picked For Defense; Government Veteran Asked To Reshape Role Of U.S. Military"]. Since Ronald Reagan's presidency, about $55 billion has been spent on this project without a single piece of operational hardware yet produced. The Clinton administration wasted another $6.6 billion on this discredited program. According to the Senate's General Accounting Office report of May 7, 1997, at least $43 billion of the military budget was simply "missing and unaccounted for." Where is Rush Limbaugh's outrage on this one? This was at a time when Republicans were claiming that President Clinton had stripped the military of resources. In an era when suitcase-sized nuclear bombs can easily be left in bus terminal lockers, this type of missile defense system, along with the submarine and land-launched nuclear missiles, can have no value except, as The Courant noted, to bring profit to the weapons-making corporations of Connecticut and other states. Let's demand accountability from Washington as to where the money spent on Star Wars has gone and then move to end this waste of resources that are needed for constructive purposes. David M. Lazarus, Willimantic Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
