Bush's Gift to the Military Industry: A New Cold War Arms Race with Russia

Ron Fullwood
OpEdNews
June 9, 2007 at 09:20:02

"My message will be 'Vladimir - I call him Vladimir - that you shouldn't fear a missile-defense system." Bush, Tuesday June 5, 2007

Dick Cheney in Sydney earlier in the year, took it upon himself to complain about China's 'military buildup' and their shooting down of an old weather satellite. Cheney wasn't really concerned with any actual threat from China. He was just carrying water for his military industry benefactors, like Lockheed and Boeing who are shopping around Europe for governments willing to buy into their 'missile defense' protection scheme they've mapped out with the military industry executives who've infected the Bush regime even before his ascendance to office.

"Last month's anti-satellite test, China's continued fast-paced military buildup, are less constructive and are not consistent with China's stated goal of a peaceful rise," he said.

Cheney was well aware of efforts reported underway for years to sell missile defense systems in Central Europe which accelerated this year, including a deal with Britain's lame-duck, Blair, to take his country's defence dollars in return for the false security of hunkering his citizens underneath a U.S. missile 'umbrella', hiding from anticipated reprisals from Bush's continuing and increasing militarism.