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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

rshowalter - 06:43pm Jun 22, 2001 EST (#5838 of 5846)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Sadistic and unbelievable it may or may not be. But compared to the matters of life and death involved with military things -- a minor matter.

The EU should make sure of things that, in its own interest, it needs to.

How many times, and in how many ways, have the NATO allies been misled by the Americans (perhaps with some complicity of people who "knew, but didn't) ?

The question should be asked in detail, and staffed and checked to a reasonable closure.

The US Congress should adress similar questions in similar ways.

lunarchick - 06:52pm Jun 22, 2001 EST (#5839 of 5846)
lunarchick@www.com

Johnson : i did but didn't click twice ... given the info displayed - anyone could find it's source.

lunarchick - 06:54pm Jun 22, 2001 EST (#5840 of 5846)
lunarchick@www.com

Kissenger - Pinochet meeting ... it s headline news every day for a year. But a secretary of state whispers sweet nothings to a violent dictator, and the mainstream media is bored to death. ... www.oikos.org/ecology/pinmar20.htm - 8k .

lunarchick - 06:55pm Jun 22, 2001 EST (#5841 of 5846)
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:)

gisterme - 06:56pm Jun 22, 2001 EST (#5842 of 5846)

lunarchick wrote: "...George Johnson it could be assumed is probably being paid (by C..I.A ?) to make his multi-monikered inputs..."

Or not; but how convenient that is for you. You just assume that whomever doesn't agree with Robert is a "Geroge Johnson" moniker. Who's next? Gisterme? No doubt.

As a taxpayer I hope the CIA isn't paying "George Johnson" or anybody else to dog poor Robert. That WOULD be a waste of money. I'm sure that Most Americans (and at least one Japanese) would agree that, whatever politicial persuasion they may follow, most of what Robert writes is way out there on the left edge. I'd allow that communists might be the exception to that statement. Dogging Robert isn't necessary for that to be obvious to most who read more than a little.

I think the problem is that Robert just can't imagine so many people don't agree with him. He's so far out on the fringe that wheter discussion comes from liberal Democrats or conservative Republicans (or anywhere between) they all seem consistent to Robert because they all come from HIS distant right. You may call that conspiracy, lunarchick; but I'd call it DENIAL.

I have to wonder, since Robert isn't in a foreign country, why you think the CIA would dog him when he would clearly be within FBI jurisdiction if he committed some federal crime? Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the FBI IS at least aware of Robert since he publicly incites knowledgeable-sounding persons to commit treason every time one pops up. Is it that a FBI conspiracy doesn't sound as glamorous and important as a CIA conspiracy?

George Johnson seems to have debased himself with regards to the behaviour one would expect from a Journalist. It has to be argued that he has tried to 'drag down' the reputation of The NYT.

I thought you said that "George Johnson" wasn't the same as the NYT journalist but rather a "pesudo-journalist". How do you know that the "George Johnson" you alledge isn't just another moniker? It might really be Darth Vader.

All this seems like an awful lot of flap over an alledged person who has never appeared as a poster on this forum. Based on my own observations here I'd say it's all much ado about nothing and that Robert is his own worst enemy.

lunarchick - 06:58pm Jun 22, 2001 EST (#5843 of 5846)
lunarchick@www.com

I see Showalter as 'middle of the road to right wing' ... which puts you where GI ?

rshowalter - 06:59pm Jun 22, 2001 EST (#5844 of 5846)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

With these charges, that's all you can muster, gisterme?

You may be a little too secure.

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