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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 - 03:35pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10657 of 10668)
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The ART of WAR

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/thigpen/html/art_of_war.html

lchic - 03:36pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10658 of 10668)
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Within the above may be the 'reason' why Iraqi soldiers are 'dressed' as civillians ...

almarst2003 - 03:41pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10659 of 10668)

The dress of Iraqi soldiers or civilians for that matter have no effect on the color of OIL.

almarst2003 - 03:47pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10660 of 10668)

Isn't even funny:

WASHINGTON -- A bill in Congress that would require the U.S. government to install a particular wireless network technology in a post-war Iraq isn't helping international, or corporate, relations, but its sponsor still stands squarely behind it.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/index.asp?layout=document&doc_id=116176&verticalID=34&vertical=Business+and+Finance&industry=

lchic - 03:53pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10661 of 10668)
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The colour of oil

is kept under wraps

It 'seems' to be black

but

Place oil on water

and magically it's colours are revealed

Leads one to speculate the the rainbow may be an oil skid mark in the sky - perhaps Hermes, one day out sky-skateboarding, came to an abrubt halt !

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Hermes.html

lchic - 03:54pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10662 of 10668)
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The Chinese have in place the OPTIC FIBRE network for Iraq ... it may not work so well this week!

almarst2003 - 03:58pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10663 of 10668)

Rumsfeld Warns Iranian Proxies in Iraq - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42574-2003Mar28.html

How could we forget our mission to "liberate" Iranian people?

lchic - 04:05pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (# 10664 of 10668)
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Rummy is saying - shoo shoo .... back across your borders ... be gone ... be good Westphalians ... step back

or of course there would be Chaos!

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