Originally Posted by laxxy
I looked at the text, and it did not sound like Bush was referring to the space exactly over the US proper, what he was talking about was that the US should have capacity to deny enemies use of space against the US (basically an ability to shoot satellites and the like if need be). Not as in "we'll shoot down anything NK launches", but as in "if NK launches a satellite with nukes, we'd like to be able to shoot it down".
Which sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing to have, and I don't see anything wrong with US (or Russia, etc) working on it.