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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,
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rshow55
- 07:39pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (#
10677 of 10682)
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.
-- and yet not necessarily be right based on the argument
alone.
When it matters enough, for a practical purpose -i people
can check things - and resolve issues worth resolving.
(Clergymen, including my grandfather, have been clear about
that for many generations. 7017 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.gkbRarE66tD.2153802@.f28e622/8538
Sometimes faith is indispensible. But sometimes, on
practical things, faith is simply negligence. There
needs to be an obligation to check - and check competently,
when it matters enough. )
When soldiers are terrified, and bullets are rending
flesh, it ought to matter enough.
out.
almarst2003
- 08:24pm Mar 28, 2003 EST (#
10678 of 10682)
Did Bush (not his administration!) failed victim of a
Christian "Golden rule"?
dccougar
- 12:40am Mar 29, 2003 EST (#
10679 of 10682) Everyone is entitled to his own
opinion but not his own facts.
As I said, Alarmist, Al Qaeda is looking for new recruits.
Here is a cool Flash video at their recruitment site....
(^: http://cagle.slate.msn.com/mondo/MondoAlQaeda.asp
:^)
lchic
- 06:37am Mar 29, 2003 EST (#
10680 of 10682) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
~~~~
Space Agency Culture Comes Under Scrutiny
' ... taking a deeper look at signs that NASA may not have
reformed its management culture to favor a free flow of ideas
and internal criticism ... '
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/29/national/nationalspecial/29SHUT.html
lchic
- 06:51am Mar 29, 2003 EST (#
10681 of 10682) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
~~~~
Saddam's friends - docco
Produced in 2003, SADDAM’S FRIENDS showing on SBS
Television on Tuesday, March 25 at 8.30pm, looks at how
Western powers, including America, France and Germany, armed
Saddam Hussein.
In 1974 the French government, then led by Prime Minister
Jacques Chirac, sold Iraq a nuclear reactor in return for
lucrative deals including cheap oil. International sceptics
asked why an oil rich country would need nuclear power but the
French government insisted the reactor would be monitored and
would not pose a military threat.
In 1979 Saddam Hussein ordered Iraq’s physicists to
redirect their research from peaceful to military
applications. One of them, Dr Hussein Sharistani, refused and
was tortured and imprisoned in solitary confinement for ten
years. In 1981 Israel bombed the plant but the Iran-Iraq war
(1980-88) saw an escalation of military support for secular
Iraq against fundamentalist Iran. French supplied nuclear
fuel, Germany sold Iraq the means of producing chemical and
bacteriological weapons and, after a visit by Donald Rumsfeld
(now Secretary of Defence), America sold Hussein sophisticated
Harpoon missiles. It is also alleged that America sent live
viruses, including anthrax, to Iraqi military units.
Former CIA director Gordon Oehler explains how between 1987
and 1989 German companies sold Iraq all the material it needed
for another nuclear plant capable of producing nuclear
weapons. The program claims that the German government
authorised the sale. Kenneth Timmerman, author of “The Death
Lobby”, says that it was also German technology which enabled
the creation of the toxic chemical gases Hussein dropped on
the Kurdish village of Halabja in 1988, killing 5,000 people.
Mirage fighter jets from France were used for the mission.
Former Defence Minister Jean Pierre Chevenement says Halabja
“only took on importance in the 1990s. At the time no one said
anything yet the Americans knew all about it.”
At the end of the Iran-Iraq war Timmerman claims that Iraq
owed the French the equivalent of 6 billion euros. With the
end of the conflict Hussein concentrated on repatriating
thousands of Arab scientists and engineers from all over the
world and personally supervised their integration into the
Iraqi system.
Iraqi nuclear physicist Dr Khidhir Hamza fled Iraq in 1994.
He claims that at that time there were 12 000 people involved
in researching nuclear weaponry.
SADDAM’S FRIENDS is a French production.
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Alan Dupont -- says time for a US RETHINK - on Iraq -
military tactics
Strategic analyst, Australia http://rspas.anu.edu.au/sdsc/staff.php
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