The Iraqis had WMD’s and moved them to Syria, and ultimately the Biq’á in Lebanon, where they remain today, guarded by Syrian soldiers – this gotten from the back-door operation of the Mossad, Debkafiles. And guess who they are aimed at?

Us in Israel!

I guess the problem with the article is that there is no clear connection with the scientists’ list submitted by Peepee Netanyahu to Putin, and NASA, unless one makes some stretched assumptions.

Bu on the other hand, Americans should have never forgotten that the Russians are ultimately their enemies, and that fact would one day bite them in the butt, as it is doing now.

I really would be nice to see an expanded space program, but it appears to me that the only folks with the money to do that today are the Chinese, and they will have money only as long as everyone (including them) do/does not dump the worthless dollar or its “treasury bills”.

It always comes down to who gets paid, folks. And when….

Even if US private citizens were in an country installing weapons systems. It is with the full knowledge and approval of the US government or they would not have got the permits. If another country was thinking of hostilities it would be prudent to warn the US government to recall its citizens. The State Dept often warns US business men and families to leave a country when hostilities are expected.

Israel has no reason not to warn. They have trade relations with Russia that were harmed in the Georgian conflict. But they still have decent relations.

Israel would also have to tell the US, but may wait until it would be too late to prevent the US stopping an attack. Apparently Bush would not sign off on an attack in Iran, but they were told about the attack in Syria at the last minute.

The intelligence may be wrong that the Israelis warned Russia, but their have been warnings done before to allow non nationals to leave before possible hostilities. I believe the US was very clear on that before we invaded Iraq and many did listen.

The bit about NASA supporting the space station. There really is no rational to keep that up. That was feel good mission to give purpose to NASA and European Space and Russia. We could let the support totally devolve to the Russians and Europe. Just get our people off the station. We can support a few more shuttle flights.

The next space station should be for commercial purposes so its maintenance is supported with efficient and long sighted reasons. Unlike a government PR purpose such as the current station.

NASA mission long ago expired. It is basically a research agency now. Let commercial space have its chance.

Hey, cut us a little slack. The talent to design and build a spacecraft and a man-rated launcher is all here. SPACEHAB came very close to having a go at it.

SpaceX and other companies have a sort of advantage in that they don’t have a major NASA installation in their back yard; therefore, they know what path they have to take. For us in Huntsville, it makes no sense politically or career-wise to cut and run on MSFC if, in the future, space exploration is going to continue to be government-run. (And obviously the current Administration hasn’t exactly been really big on privatizing; they have very much gone in the other direction.) If privatization is going to happen, fine; we want a piece of that action too and we’ll jump into the fray and compete. But guessing and then being wrong is a mistake no one here can afford to make. We just want someone to make a damn decision one way or the other.

it is typical right wing stuff

Robert G. Oler

I think that giving the list to Russian is more along the line of: we know that you know what we know about the Russian scientists working for Iran. Don’t complain and pretend outraged later on.

Neither of which has anything whatsoever to do with this article. And thus is evidence of your profound sickness, as others have noted. Again, get help.

Exaggerate, misstate, then do incompetently. That was the entire 8 years (except for the 1/3 when he was on vacation).

I know bringing up the main example of incompetence is distressing to the right wing, of course there are so many more

Robert G. Oler

but evidence of absence is evidence…and there was no WMD

Sorry. I know this has let down all the Fox News crowd, but Rand has a piece on his website about the hot fox babes…so enjoy that

Robert G. Oler

a.) It could be a warning of dire consequences to the people on the list.

b.) Many Soviet weapons scientists became unemployed a decade ago. Maybe they are doing some clandestine freelancing of which Putin would not approve.