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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 - 12:58am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10600 of 10614)

"the people of Iraq need to shake off Saddam"

I would live it to people of Iraq.

Not to Pearl-Wolfowitch-Cheiney-Ramsfeld-Bush family.

This is just outrageous. Who gave anyone outside of Iraq the right to do what is done now?

What if the cold war would tun out differently and USSR would decide to give the Australian, British and American proletariat a chance for a better life, guaranteed employement, free child care, education and medicine? By military force, in case you are not smart enough to overthrow your regimes.

Please, don't disappear into nirvanna.

fredmoore - 01:06am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10601 of 10614)

Almarst ....

The Cold War is over ... you can come in now!

LOL

bbbuck - 01:15am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10602 of 10614)

Alarmist2002 is trying to take over this forum.

Someone should report him to the immigration authorities.

Who's got his address?

almarst2003 - 01:42am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10603 of 10614)

Richard Perle, a chief architect of the war on Iraq, resigned yesterday as chairman of the influential defence policy board following allegations that he faced a serious conflict of interest over his corporate connections. The US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday accepted his resignation but asked him to remain on the board. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,924557,00.html

"conflict of interest"? Quite the opposite. All interests are perfectly aligned.

almarst2003 - 01:47am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10604 of 10614)

Noam Chomsky

"American power is so great that no outside force can call us to account; hence the overwhelming urgency of the effort to overcome the effects of a generation of indoctrination and a long history of self-adulation. We will simply compound the tragedy of Vietnam if we do not exploit this opportunity to break loose from the stranglehold of ideology and the tradition of conformism that makes a mockery of the values we pretend to hold. The first step towards political sanity must be intensive self-examination, exposure not only of what we do and what we represent in the world today, but also of the attitudes that color and distort our perception of our international behavior."

Source: American Power and the New Mandarins(1969), p. 244-245

almarst2003 - 01:48am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10605 of 10614)

"Who's got his address?"

I do. Give me yours and will mail it to you. Personally:)

almarst2003 - 01:49am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10606 of 10614)

"The Cold War is over"

Indeed. The heat is rising.

almarst2003 - 01:56am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10607 of 10614)

The United Nations will refuse to play a "subservient" role or act as a "subcontractor" to the United States in the reconstruction of Iraq, the organisation's development chief has warned. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,924493,00.html

Cheiney: "We are talking MONEY now! Its time to bomb their headquaters"

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