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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 - 01:58am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10608 of 10618)

Up to 37 US marines were injured yesterday and their armoured vehicles destroyed, left, by "friendly fire", amid fierce fighting close to the strategic southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,924420,00.html

A drop of OIL...

almarst2003 - 02:02am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10609 of 10618)

The International Monetary Fund warned yesterday that a prolonged war in Iraq could depress financial markets and put global economic recovery in jeopardy. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,924510,00.html

We will blaim it on Saddam anyway.

almarst2003 - 02:11am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10610 of 10618)

recording each reported civilian death in the current conflict - http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

almarst2003 - 02:17am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10611 of 10618)

A look at the way the war is being spun and reported - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,924345,00.html

almarst2003 - 02:30am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10612 of 10618)

Russia and Wars of Tomorrow - http://english.pravda.ru/politics/2003/03/26/45096.html

Vladimir Averchenko, Duma vice-speaker, the first deputy chairman of the People’s Party thinks that after the war in Iraq the US armed forces may come to Russia. He declared it at a meeting against the Iraqi war the party organized on Tuesday. He said: “America plans to seize 15% of the world oil reserve located in Iraq. To achieve the goal, Americans kill Iraqi children and old people. Russia holds 37% of the world oil reserve, and there is no guarantee that Americans don’t have an intention to attack Russia next.”

The deputy emphasized that “the war and subsequent redistribution of the world make Russia solve new problems.” In particular, this is the necessity to strengthen Russia’s defensive capacity, to upgrade the armed forces; the deputy thinks that Russia “must give up implementation of arrangements that can negatively affect condition of the defense potential of the country; it is necessary to initiate creation of an international coalition for the sake of defending peace and the international law.”

Well, the snowball started falling.

almarst2003 - 03:09am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10613 of 10618)

International Federation of Journalists Condemns Attack on TV Station - http://english.pravda.ru/world/2003/03/26/45083.html

TV Stations are not a military target

The illegal attack by the US/UK coalition reaches more and more monstrous proportions as each day goes by. On Tuesday night, the Iraqi TV Station was attacked in an air raid, against the rules of war and against the notion that freedom of expression is a fundamental right.

lchic - 04:18am Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10614 of 10618)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

It's the sand in the oyster

That makes the 'Perle'

Swinging gate

Where folks

one way enter

on their date

with fate!

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