MATT DRUDGE // DRUDGE REPORT 2000.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 06, 1999 19:42:55 ET XXXXX

SHAREWARE: CLINTON TO OFFER NEW MISSILE DEFENSE TECH TO RUSSIA, CHINA

**Exclusive**

President Clinton will offer to share new missile defense technology with other nations if such a system can be created, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned from government sources.

Clinton's intentions will not be formally announced until next summer, after a Pentagon review of the system's feasibility, but the president told senior advisers this week that he will share the technology in an effort to prevent a new global arms race.

Clinton's offer will be made in general terms, since the outcome of the research is far from clear.

Clinton's expressed a willingness to share the new missile defense system specifically with Russia, China and Israel.

The move is bound to cause complete controversy, but an American policy of sharing a missile defense with other supernations would not be new.

During the last years of the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan offered to give the Soviet Union a missile defense system, if and when deployed.

"We will share the defensive system with you," President Reagan promised the Soviets.

Reagan defended his decision during a debate with Walter Mondale in '84:

"Now, some people have said ah, that would make a war imminent because they would think that we could launch a first strike because we could defend against the enemy. But why not do what I have offered to do and asked the Soviet Union to do? Say look, here's what we can do, we'll even give it to you, now will you sit down with us and once and for all get rid - all of us - of these nuclear weapons and free mankind from that threat. I think that would be the greatest use of a defensive weapon."

The U.S. military said early Sunday it had successfully completed the first test of a prototype weapon that could lay the groundwork for a national missile defense system.

The announcement came after a "kill vehicle" missile intercepted and destroyed an unarmed missile on a 16,000-mph collision course over the Pacific.

Developing...

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-- Fly By Night (living@inthe.limelight), October 06, 1999

Answers

Given the article discussed previously on the Russians hacking into our military systems and Chinese espianage, I am apalled. I am not, however, particularly surprised...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), October 06, 1999.

Ol' Billy Bob boy doesn't expect the millions of little timebombs called embeded chips to stop his lovefest with China. The jokes on him. If Y2K doesn't ruin the system Andy Ray just might. The pollies will lose. Long live the doomers.

-- ##@###>@@@ (##@###.@@@), October 06, 1999.

ATTENTION! ATTENTION! The lunatics have taken over the asylum! I repeat. The LUNATICS have taken over the asylum! That is all. (Geesh, I'm sorry, that's not really news is it?)

-- Gia (laureltree7@hotmail.com), October 06, 1999.

Can you say T*R*E*A*S*O*N?? I knew thatcha could...

-TECH32-

-- TECH32 (TECH32@NOMAIL.COM), October 07, 1999.

That must have been right around when Reagan's mind started deteriorating. Seemed like a pretty decent guy, but did some very strange things under pressure.

-- @ (@@@.@), October 07, 1999.

Suppose the Russians and Chinese ever heard of "Greeks Bearing Gifts"? No, there is something else behind this story. The Political advisors knew what the reaction to this story would be. Pres. R scared hell out of Russia with SDI (Starwars trick). I don't know what the motivation is for this but even Klintoon isn't this stupid...Oh Hell, maybe he is.

-- Larry (Rampon@cyberramp.net), October 07, 1999.

One would LIKE to think that missles are now irrelevant-that our scientists have come up with something vastly superior, but I'm afraid that it's just what it sounds like: classic liberal "feel-good" ceding of our national defense. "Well, if we just massage their egos and give them big enough gifts, maybe they let us live..." Who was that Prime Minister prior to WWII who tried to appease Hitler? Neville Chamberlain (sp?)?

-- chairborne commando (what-me-worry@armageddon.com), October 07, 1999.