"I believe it's wrong to place weapons in space. Period. So does the late Werner Von Braun."

And exactly how do you know von Braun's feelings on these issues, aside from the self-serving allegations of his secretary thirty years after the fact?

What you don't seem to like is AMERICAN weapons in space -- have you ever given any indication that you uttered a peep about Soviet and Russian weapons in space?

Suppose I told you the Russians had mounted a machine-gun on the outside of a manned space station to destroy American space vehicles? Would you just withdraw into make-believe and refuse to admit it happened? How about the gun in the luggage of Russian cosmonauts in space right NOW?