Shooting Down a Satellite

Is there anybody at all, outside of the Bush Administration and their gullible Kool-Aid quaffing sycophants, who think that shooting down this satellite is anything other than an excuse to test an ASAT weapon? At the end of January, the Bush Administration was saying that the risk of damage or injury from the satellite was "minimal."

I don't buy that they all of a sudden concluded that the hydrazine tank posed a severe threat.

What I do buy is that someone told Bush that this would be a great opportunity to shoot off a missile to test an ABM interceptor. And he seized on it.

So what this is, again, is yet another Bush lie encased in a veneer of plausibility.