Creepy new weapons from the Bush Administration

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/washington/03laser.html?_r=1&ex=1146974400&en=05ce20f115c14bac&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin

The Bush administration is seeking to develop a powerful ground-based laser weapon that would use beams of concentrated light to destroy enemy satellites in orbit.