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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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almarst2003 - 09:38pm Mar 27, 2003 EST (# 10582 of 10614)

Washingtom mathematicians with a help of super-computer came up with a war-scenario up to the Saddam's last words.

They also calculated the road to democracy lead by so-called Iraqi "fat cats" giving them royalty for Oil and reconstraction (1% will be more then enough). The price of the "loyalty" was finally calibrated based on experience in Afganistan.

The Iraqi secret police will be renamed to "Liberty Guard" and salary will be doubled. There duty will be to keep the Iraq to the best usage of US-British Oil Co. They will also make sure there are no surprises against a new leader selected and supervised by US general.

One of the largest project will be given to Halliburn subsideary to build the largest US military base abroad. The oil exploration and destribution contracts will be divided between US - 85%, UK - 15%, Spain - 0% and Italy - 0% as a proportion of troops they commited to the war.

The oil companies will have to pay "protection money" to cover the base maintainence and "Liberty Guard" salaries.

All this "package" was promised ready for the coming Chrismas to be found under the "chrismas tree".

almarst2003 - 10:46pm Mar 27, 2003 EST (# 10583 of 10614)

Ma’ariv Compares War to Israeli Army Operations - http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24326

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, 27 March 2003 — A top-selling Israeli daily yesterday compared the US-British war in Iraq to Israeli Army operations in the Palestinian territories, which the coalition allies have frequently criticized as heavy-handed. Under the headline “Similar?” the tabloid Ma’ariv’s supplement section splashed a series of juxtaposed pictures of bombed buildings in Iraq and the Palestinian territories, of Iraqi prisoners being watched by US soldiers and Palestinian captives of the Israeli Army.

“Over the years the British and the Americans have reprimanded Israel for the way in which it has fought terrorism in the territories. Now, they are fighting in Iraq,” the daily said in a long editorial.

“Suddenly they are engaged with a civilian population and they have to get their hands dirty. The pictures that have begun to come in from Iraq look astonishingly like the ones we’ve grown accustomed to from the territories,” it said. It said that “the way the coalition troops are dealing with the fighting is also reminiscent of the way Israeli troops do.”

Among the series of pictures side by side were a shot from Basra of armed and helmeted coalition troops prodding at gunpoint unarmed civilian men with their hands on their heads, next to a photo from Nablus of an Israeli soldier doing the same.

Another pair of pictures showed smoke rising from bombed buildings in Baghdad and Gaza. Washington and London have also come under fire from the Palestinian leadership for their decisive pressing ahead with the war on Iraq while constantly delaying publication of an internationally drafted “road map” to end the 30-month Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

almarst2003 - 11:07pm Mar 27, 2003 EST (# 10584 of 10614)

Report: U.S. military officials believe Iraq war could last months - http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/277953.html

Bush to American public: "Would you stop reading my lips, please!"

Tony Blair appeared to backtrack yesterday when his official spokesman said there was no "absolute evidence" that two British soldiers who were killed after being separated from their unit in southern Iraq were executed, as the prime minister had earlier suggested. - http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,924450,00.html

Poor Tony started sweating under so many layers of lies.

almarst2003 - 11:20pm Mar 27, 2003 EST (# 10585 of 10614)

Tony -'We are working to make the world more peaceful' - http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,924438,00.html

What a good man will not do for a peace? ... Peace of OIL that mean

almarst2003 - 11:25pm Mar 27, 2003 EST (# 10586 of 10614)

ALERT! SURPRISE! UNBEALIVABLE!

They are fighting for their independence, not Saddam - http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,922839,00.html

Resistance to the US-British occupation will not end with this regime

Seumas Milne Thursday March 27, 2003 The Guardian

The Anglo-American war now being fought in the Middle East is without question the most flagrant act of aggression

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