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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?

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fredmoore - 09:35am Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10313 of 10319)

Rshow ...

This is NOT about intellectualizing conflict. This is about Saddam's children ... now looking essentially for a new Father figure. This will be as hard for coalition forces to understand as their ideas of equality will be for the Iraqis to understand. To avoid catastophic misunderstandings , smart psychology/smart music will be an important primer. More powerful than a MOAB, faster than a cruise missile, able to leap great misunderstandings at a single bound.

The Iraqi people deserve our best efforts ... no stone left unturned! Our hearts and not just our 'heads' must be with them. Where the UN out of selectivity and self interest has failed, we ... must not.

mazza9 - 10:44am Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10314 of 10319)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Fredmoore:

PhysWar dictates Awesome lyrics. My suggestion is 120db of Tiny Tim's "Tip Toe Through the Tulips" The route would be complete and then we can replace that with music which "soothes the savage breast!"

How 'bout the Beatles, "All you need is love?"

fredmoore - 11:02am Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10315 of 10319)

Lou ...

Talk about the 7th Cav ....

Dig out the CD (Dancin on the ceiling -'se la') You will know what I mean! It's not 'Gary Owen' but it has a certain reggae 'mil-spec'. It may even be 'rad-hard'.

Cheers

lchic - 11:15am Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10316 of 10319)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

War is hell, and for people who work - or who fight and kill – in battle zones the effects last a lifetime.

Beyond War | listen - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/ | http://www.humanmedia.org/pom_03.php3 | Produced by David Freudberg

lchic - 11:18am Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10317 of 10319)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Australian cameraman killed http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s813774.htm

ITV crew

British TV crew missing

Britain's main commercial TV news service ITN said the crew came under fire while traveling to Basra in southern Iraq.

"An ITV News crew came under fire at Iman Anas, near Basra, as they drove towards the city in two vehicles," ITN said in a statement.

"One of the crew, Daniel Demoustier, was injured but was able to get to safety. He was not able to see what happened to his colleagues...At present, they are still missing."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s813774.htm

lchic - 11:22am Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10318 of 10319)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

""28 baby girls hidden in suitcases on a long-distance bus and apparently destined to be sold

Some of the infants were kept two or three to a suitcase and the nylon suitcases were stacked on the luggage rack, the back row of seats and along the sides of the bus.

The babies appeared to have been drugged to keep them from crying.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s813768.htm

lchic - 11:26am Mar 22, 2003 EST (# 10319 of 10319)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

RU : Kyoto protocol will be signed at a conference on climate change in Moscow later this year .. "It is only the United States and Australia of all the countries that are failing to support it."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s811071.htm

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