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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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almarst2003 - 05:47pm Mar 27, 2003 EST (# 10578 of 10581)

Bush-Blair did not take into consideration the lives of millions before war.

They still insist on the war to the victory untill the last Iraqi.

They didn't care about people starving for 12 years.

Papa-Bush didn't care what will happen to the Iraqi people when he bombed the vital civilian infrastructure - a clear War Crime.

I think untill today, US didn;t appologise for its Indo-china criminal wars. Nor compensated the victims. Some still alive and suffering from the Agent Orange till this day.

US still uses cluster bombs, DU munition and napalm. It still relies on a tactic of terrorising the entire population by nightly bombing with no other reason. It still developes the WMD on a large scale and proclaim ready to use it. This is a tactic of terror.

I will never do anything to help them out. The World will turn away from them. Hopefully, eventually the Americans and British will too. I already did.

rshow55 - 06:01pm Mar 27, 2003 EST (# 10579 of 10581)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

I've guessed that that gisterme is a personage of considerable rank, and gisterme has posted extensively, and impressively, on this board. One can see much of that impressive posting by searching " gisterme" - and sampling the content. But that doesn't show most of it.

8368 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.YcdBaNU862c.1890429@.f28e622/9894 links to 680 postings by gisterme prior to restarting of this thread on March of this year. All these posts are available by date at http://www.mrshowalter.net/calendar1.htm

Each of these links connects to 20 links on the current MD thread by gisterme:

8370 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.YcdBaNU862c.1890429@.f28e622/9896

8371 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.YcdBaNU862c.1890429@.f28e622/9897

8372 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.YcdBaNU862c.1890429@.f28e622/9900

8373 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.YcdBaNU862c.1890429@.f28e622/9899

8374 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.YcdBaNU862c.1890429@.f28e622/9900

8375 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.YcdBaNU862c.1890429@.f28e622/9901

8376 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.YcdBaNU862c.1890429@.f28e622/9902

8378 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.YcdBaNU862c.1890429@.f28e622/9904

8379 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.YcdBaNU862c.1890429@.f28e622/9905

Judging from the number and quality of these postings - and perhaps biased by a too much respect for the status of the NYT, I've guessed that gisterme might be George W. Bush himself. That may well be wrong, and gisterme has repeatedly denied it. Even so, it does seem likely that gisterme has very close connections with the Bush administration, and high ones.

I think the following posting by gisterme , which I'm recopying in its entirety, is especially interesting - and I want to offer a public apology of my own , about my response to it.

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