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To: KLP who wrote (239680)	2/22/2008 1:28:50 AM
From: MJ	Respond to of 794033

Little has changed with Ted-------wonder what TK will say about shooting the satellite down----sucessfully. "General Graham had to fend off the Ted Kennedy claque who tried to ridicule High Frontier as "Star Wars," and the liberal Democrats who are viscerally opposed to spending any money on defense. Graham had to withstand opposition from Paul Nitze and the internationalists who opposed SDI because they sought nuclear disarmament through international agencies, and from the arms control lobby, which had a vested interest in continuing their jobs attending international meetings where they tilted about arcane nuclear weapons statistics. President Clinton vetoed the defense authorization that would have funded SDI, claiming that it is "on a collision course with the ABM treaty." That document is a relic of the Cold War, which continues to impose MAD on us and restricts our constitutional right to "provide for the common defense." The nuclear threat today is from attacks by the several rogue nations that now possess ballistic missiles. The ABM treaty cannot protect us against them, but SDI can." mj