Missiles, Satellites, And Hydrazine, Oh Spy Poem by Joe Rosochacki

The Pentagon is attempting to shoot a crippled spy satellite.
The craft was losing altitude and was filled with Hydrazine,
Which is dangerous to humans, it is;
-that was the public statement made by the Pentagon,
But I wonder what the real reason is behind downing the satellite.
Not that it was a spy satellite with sensitive electronics,
- images on its CPU,
That America’s enemies would love to have.

(Gary Powers, flying the U-2 was shot down by a missile in 1960, over the Soviet Union, he was paraded around for Kremlin for the Russians propaganda and enjoyment. He didn’t contain any Hydrazine, but a highly developed camera equipment at that time.)

Why it is that NASA can predict a flight plan for unmanned craft,
To its target twenty odd years from now, like Neptune,
-a long chance a bit.

But yet the Earth is over 75% water, at least 66% of it deep ocean,
And the Pentagon could not adjust the satellite’s altitude for its re-entry to earth’s atmosphere over water, for it has enough Hydrazine that powers it.

Why Bother?
Where it could disintegrate like Columbia did,
-and all its crew dead,
Could this be also an experiment of the AEGIS system?
Conspiracy theorists claim the AEGIS brought down TWA Flight 800.
The official word, that the aircraft downing was mechanical or structural, the FAA said.

Could this system part of Star Wars which was finally the result of the plan of the late President Ronald Reagan?
In order to intercept an incoming ICBM from North Korea or Iran?
Or is it not something but a military gaff,
How veiled is the excuse,
if it wasn’t so serious, I’d laugh.

(2-20-2008)