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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 - 10:53pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10496 of 10510)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Global Positioning System (GPS)

This navigation system is used

And currently abused by US

Crop sprayers, taxi drivers, et al

How goest thou?

GPS interrupted service --- thanks to Saddam ?

almarst2003 - 11:06pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10497 of 10510)

A lack of skepticism toward official U.S. sources has already led prominent American journalists into embarrassing errors in their coverage of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, b particularly in relation to claims that proof had been found that Iraq possesses banned weapons. - http://www.fair.org/activism/scuds.html

almarst2003 - 11:14pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10498 of 10510)

"Is there a bigger fool in the world than Saddam?"

Quite a fiew. All those who believe the Bush-Blair declared intentions.

Are there bigger criminals the Saddam? Plenty in a past. Many strongly supported by US. Including Saddam and Bin Ladden. As of now, we will judge by condition of survivers and number of perished in this "liberation" compain.

almarst2003 - 11:18pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10499 of 10510)

"And don't it always seem to go," inquires the plaintive chorus, "that you don't know what you've got till it's gone?" The first people to hear that line back in 1970 might have taken it as a lament for the lost tranquillity of American life before the Vietnam war. Maybe the new generation lapping up the current Counting Crows' version hear their own yearning for the days before wartime. But the people who should be chanting that chorus loudest this week are not the peaceniks and protesters, but the men who plotted and planned this war. For it's the Washington hawks who have greatest reason to identify with Joni's line. In the last few days they have come to appreciate something they used to take for granted or, worse still, mock outright.

I'm thinking of international rules.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,922109,00.html

almarst2003 - 11:25pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10500 of 10510)

lchic,

Your cry about stupid stabborn Saddam and all those folish Iraqis who rejected to surrender to over-the-sea firebombing "liberators" could be fully appreciated by Hitler during the bombing of England. Or Stalin and all those stubborn Russians who defended the Leningrad and Stalingrad.

Just imagine how much money and property could have being saved.

What is less clear, why military insignificant cities like Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaky where removed from the face of the Earth with most of their inhabitants.

almarst2003 - 11:46pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10501 of 10510)

It is rumored that the USA has prepared over 300 new super-effective instruments of killing for this Gulf war - http://english.pravda.ru/main/

After the "freedom fries", time to name the Department of Defense - Department of Liberation by Force

almarst2003 - 11:50pm Mar 25, 2003 EST (# 10502 of 10510)

Hard to disregard as nonsense -

"For over ten years already the USA has been waging no-contact wars. In May 2001, George W. Bush delivered his first presidential speech to students of the US Navy Academy in Annapolis and declared that drastic measures must be taken to start preparation of the US armed forces for wars of tomorrow. He emphasized at that, these should be high-tech armed forces to perform no-contact operations all over the world. Now the objective is persistently carried out. "

http://english.pravda.ru/war/2003/03/25/44979.html

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