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Friday, December 05, 2003

Mission to the Moon?

Yesh! FoxNews.com is reporting that President Bush wants a mission to go to the moon.

Oh man what's up with that? He better not be thinking of pulling some JFK like move at the State of the Union address. It's a bad idea to be dealing with space stuff right now. While I'm sure they're just fishing for reactions right now I hope they don't get any crazy ideas. I mean I know it's tempting to make some big announcement to give people something positive to think about. However, in the current state of the country/world it's just silly.

The war on terror hasn't exactly been looked upon favorably lately. Starting NASA on some big moon program now will just backfire. Liberals will just have a field day running around saying it's a smoke screen to distract people. They're already bitching about the billions being spent to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan so saying you're going to spend more to go to the moon will just drive them into a fury.

Right now the best thing to be do is just focus on cleaning up Iraq. Get an official government in place fast and start shifting power and control of the country to it's own people. The same goes for Afghanistan. We should be shifting to the smallest size deployments in the country as possible and keeping the deployment times short. It'll be good for both the troops and politics.

Anyways, it's just not good right now to be thinking about space. When things calm down on this planet then lets talk about a renewed energy in space travel. Plus the current state of NASAs shuttles are very questionable. If anything the President should take the advice of Dennis Miller [Dennis Miller just might have a point] and strip NASA to it's bones and build a national rail system. If he announced that at the State of the Union he'd probably have the election in the bag. Just doing something to improve the lives of people at home would sucker all the moderates and on the fence liberals to support you.

Just think about it Mr. President.
Posted by abarber on 12/05/2003 at 03:43 PM
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