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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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lchic - 01:51pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10479 of 10508)
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Headlines

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

http://www.abc.net.au/news/world/ http://www.abc.net.au/news/world/middleeast/default.htm UK BLAIR http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s816248.htm

Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/

Basra Saddam fires Mortars on his own people http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=390567

FISK - Robert Fisk: Saddam starts to sound more like his hero, Uncle Joe http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=390536

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/default.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Earlier this month, USAID invited five US engineering giants to submit bids for Iraq reconstruction work expected to be worth up to $900m.

The companies were Bechtel, Louis Berger, Fluor, Kellogg Brown & Root and The Parsons Corporation.

USAID plans call for operating ports and airports and repairing utility networks, roads, bridges, schools and hospitals.

UK construction firms have complained privately about not being invited to bid. But it is thought possible that some will pick up sub-contracting work from US lead contractors.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2884701.stm

lchic - 01:57pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10480 of 10508)
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C O N F L I C T of I N T E R E S T

Conflict of Interest is a looming issue.

Seems those close to Bush are both Politicians and Business guys ...

Being handy to the Politico

Puts them in the know

Watch those contracts flow

There are demands that PostWarIraq be administered by the UN -- which in turn -- works in with 'the Iraqi people' matching contracts to their needs through many business providers world wide.

lchic - 02:10pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10481 of 10508)
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A retired mil-expert likened the view, the take, the understanding, the seeing

of individuals

on the war front

as them

seeing their world

their view point

as if looking through

a straw http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/

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If there are thousands of reporting-backs from Iraq, then, imagine each within a tube of knowing

The military commanders in war cabinet have to both appreciate every 'individual' take

and see the cumulative picture

The only tubes so far connected with Iraq have been Aluminium *!* not perspex

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lchic - 02:16pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10482 of 10508)
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Oscars - Michael MOORE

... his remarks about George Bush, whom he called the "fictitious" president, and his opposition to the war in Iraq, caused ... furore

http://film.guardian.co.uk/oscars/story/0,12712,921550,00.html

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