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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

hawkman99 - 10:57am Dec 23, 2001 EST (#10492 of 10657)

"Clinton was a regular American boy and worldside had respect"

Yeah!!!!! He used cocaine, luds, smoked pot, Fucxed all the women he could even while he was married, is a convicted liar etc. A real American hero! Someone to tell your children to look up to and to be like! Yeah!

BTW Many world leaders did not like him nor did they trust him. I guess you missed the press releases from the UK where P.M. Tony Blair refused an audience with Bill Clinton after he left office. P.M .Blair was quoted as saying, Bill Clinton is no longer the president and I don't have time for him. But yet P.M. Tony Blair granted an audience with Former President George Bush Sr. a few days after this happened and also with Former President Jimmy Carter. Sounds to me like Bill Clinton got the BOOT!

rudysprostate - 12:57pm Dec 23, 2001 EST (#10493 of 10657)

Yet, Bill Clinton received a ROUSING, STANDING OVATION from the crowd at the Wimbledon games and every other place he'd been to. It had been described as a 'beatlemania redux'. Tony Blair NEVER received attention like that anywhere at anytime IN HIS OWN COUNTRY!!!!

Jealousy from Tony Blair???

The dog poop on my shoe has more class then you Bush bashers....

The rabid rightwingers favorite company. You can't pry 'em apart!

ultra10 - 02:48pm Dec 23, 2001 EST (#10494 of 10657)

I was at "Wimbledon" during that! What was not reported on the TV and in print was Bill Clinton got spat upon by some bystanders and were removed and arrested! Also when he left the pavilion Americans booed him along with many of my fellow Countrymen outside of center court. They booed so loudly that all tennis on court two was halted and a let court was called!

So get your facts correct!

Can't you people stay on subject?

ultra10 - 03:51pm Dec 23, 2001 EST (#10495 of 10657)

Now we all know that Time Magazine is NOT a cheer leader for Mr. Bush! So when Time writes a long article and gives many accolades to Mr. Bush this should turn heads. I wonder what the Bush bashers think about Time now? I guess Time got it wrong too! I guess 89% of us don't get it either! I guess only the 7% that disagree with Mr. Bush on everything get it!

http://www.time.com/time/poy2001/nwar.html

lchic - 09:17pm Dec 23, 2001 EST (#10496 of 10657)

Time mag didn't have the guts to put 'the most talked about man' of the year top of their list .. they sell words with compromise.

Seem Putin is head of a country more American than America

Interesting how Clinton is resurging here on MD .. some diversion .. strategic tactic ... uuhmm .. problems for Bush and Admin about to surface so distracting?

idenbade - 09:35pm Dec 23, 2001 EST (#10497 of 10657)

"the most talked about man"

What does that have to do with anything? You must be a real dumb person blind and or deaf!

Yah... lets give that Bin Laden even more press so his sleeper cells will awake and do more damage. It is not a matter of guts, it is a matter of the right thing to do. I guess you don't have a clue on what the Mid East reaction to Bin Laden on the front page of the Times being man of the year would do! In the Mid East putting Bin Laden's face on a major news stand as "man of the year" would start a ground swell of supporters and we would have more attacks. I guess you liberals never think about consequences to your actions. I happen to be Egyptian so I can speak to what would happen over there.

As for Bush being in trouble.... the last poll I heard had him in the 80+% of job approval. You are just blowing smoke! Bill Clinton himself just said Al Gore would mean major grid lock and he would be bad for America! So I guess in some strange way Bill Clinton has endorsed GWB.

mazza9 - 09:59pm Dec 23, 2001 EST (#10498 of 10657)
Louis Mazza

Why do you suppose Clinton has rallied his "troops" to help re-establish his image. the plain and simple facts are that he is the same old Clinton. He will marshall the troops who will chant, "Clinton is good..Long live Clinton"

Meanwhile McCain and Lieberman are forming a committee to look into the elements that contributed to 9/11. Who do you think will be found culpable?

Today in the Dallas Morning News Bob Krueger, former Congressman and Ambassador to Botswana and Burundi wrote an OpEdit which is entitled, "When I Called CIA, They Put Me on Hold" He writes of his experiences in Africa in 1998 when Khobar Towers and other indications pointed towards Osama Bin Laden and anti-American angst. This was Bill Clinton's watch and he was too busy debauching interns, wagging fingers at his employers, (that's you and me), and giving false testimony before a federal judge. He kept trying to put it behind him so he could get about the business of the American people. But all he did was give us the business.

Today, Rena Pederson, the editor of the Dallas Morning News, wrote a stirring piece about Todd and Lisa Beamer. This couple was every bit as good as Bill and Hillary were self serving slime balls.

If you have to bash anything try bashing your head into a wall. Maybe some sense will seep in where only foolish thoughts currently reside.

LouMazza

lchic - 08:44pm Dec 24, 2001 EST (#10499 of 10657)

Gorby is giving Yeltsin the 'thumbs down' at Christmas Time ... brave ... retrospectively.

lchic - 09:05pm Dec 24, 2001 EST (#10500 of 10657)

The idea for the JDAM was born during the gulf war, where the most advanced precision munitions of the day, laser-guided bombs, could be thrown off target by clouds or dust storms that deflect the laser beams.

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