Oh Canada! – No To Continental Missile Shield / Yes To US Citizens Rejecting War

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Dec 15th, 2004 - Prime Minister Paul Martin said Tuesday he does not believe the U.S. ballistic missile shield will succeed in shooting down incoming rockets, as he threw up new roadblocks to counter President George W. Bush's strong appeal for Canada to join his continental defense plan.

Canada will not put any money into building the missile shield and it will not allow Washington to station rockets on Canadian soil as the price of participation in the multibillion-dollar program, Martin told Global National in a year-end interview.

Martin also said Canada was prepared to accept U.S. citizens who do not want to serve in the war in Iraq.

Oh Canada! – No To Continental Missile Shield / Yes To US Citizens Rejecting War


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[timec]

Dec 6th, 2004 - Union of Concerned Scientists: Open Letter on Missile Defense to Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada

Dear Prime Minister Martin,

We are writing to call your attention to serious technical problems with the missile defense system the United States is currently building, as well as dangers associated with pursuit of this and future missile defense systems.

The Union of Concerned Scientists has conducted technical analyses of the U.S. missile defense program for over a decade. Our analysis clearly shows that the missile defense system currently being fielded will not provide protection against long-range ballistic missile attacks. However, the system will have a significant capability to attack satellites in low-earth orbit and may spur the development of anti-satellite weapons by other countries. Moreover, desires for space-based missile defenses increase the motivation for the U.S. development of space weapons. If the United States continues to pursue robust ground and space-based missile defenses, this will have negative impacts on international relations and undermine cooperative approaches to security.

 

[timec]

Interceptor-missile test ends in failure – Dec 16th, 2004 (Reuters)

Washington -- U.S. President George W. Bush's drive to deploy a multibillion-dollar shield against ballistic missiles was set back yesterday by what critics called a stunning failure of its first full flight test in two years.

The abortive $85-million exercise raised fresh questions about the reliability of the first elements of the plan, an heir to former president Ronald Reagan's vision of a space-based missile defense that critics dubbed Star Wars.

The interceptor missile never left its silo at Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific, shutting down automatically because of an "anomaly" of unknown origin, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said.

About 16 minutes earlier, a target missile had been fired from Kodiak, Alaska.

All eight of the system's intercept tests have fallen far short of replicating realistic war scenarios, experts inside and outside the government have said

 

[hitrack]

Thats a nice pic of the flag. Impressive use of color (note USA spelling) and bolding in the fonts.

 

[chuck1561]

missles suck, sharks with frickin laser beams on their heads are where it's at!