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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    Missile Defense

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?

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lchic - 01:24pm Mar 21, 2003 EST (# 10297 of 10312)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

UN Daily Briefing

Kofi Annan said

    'look for ways to forge stronger unity in the future'
He noted how people
    “want their leaders to come together, in the United Nations, to resolve the problems shared by all humanity.”
http://www.un.org/News/ossg/hilites.htm

lchic - 01:27pm Mar 21, 2003 EST (# 10298 of 10312)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Mushroom cloud over baghdad Current time Friday, March 21, 2003, at 9:24:19 PM --- Presidential Palace knocked out. Fires through city.

lchic - 01:33pm Mar 21, 2003 EST (# 10299 of 10312)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

lchic - 01:35pm Mar 21, 2003 EST (# 10300 of 10312)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

almarst2003 - 02:49pm Mar 21, 2003 EST (# 10301 of 10312)

BAGHDAD IN FLAMES - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4639-2003Mar21.html

lchic - 03:00am Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10302 of 10312)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

NO one is FOR war

No one is FOR torture, starvation, deprivation

No one is FOR repression

If it takes war to remove a nightmare

Let it be

small

Everyone is FOR a future

Everyone is FOR a tomorrow

Everyone is FOR a smiling child

Everyone is FOR a good dinner with good talk

Everyone is FOR international modernity

Is that what Everyone's FOR ?

© dR3

lchic - 03:02am Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10303 of 10312)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Had Saddam had a brain

He would have walked into exile

To save on death and pain

Shame Shame Shame ! ! !

almarst2003 - 04:22am Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10304 of 10312)

But fortunately for the neo-conservative hawks over at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) on 19th St., three blocks from the White House, it appears that Hussein remains alive, and the invasion will now go forward as planned. "That we appear not to have gotten Saddam Hussein last night ... may be a blessing in disguise," came the email message from AEI's press center.

A "decapitation" strategy targeted on Hussein, his sons, and a few other top Ba'ath officials without a full-scale invasion and occupation represents a dangerous threat to the neocon vision for the future of the Middle East. "As in Operation Desert Storm, the measure of victory in this war against Iraq will not be how big we start but where and when we stop," said the message from resident fellow Tom Donnelly. "'Going to Baghdad' means more than physically occupying the city. It is a metaphor for tearing out Saddamism, root and branch. There will be many moments – and a quick kill on Saddam would be one – where some might be tempted to say, as the first Bush administration did when the television pictures of the famous Highway of Death hit American airwaves in 1991, that enough has been done".

For them, Iraq must not only be de-Ba'athized, but Washington must also be accorded the opportunity to show the world, (especially other Muslim states) just how powerful and determined the United States is

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15439

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