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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 - 06:55am Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10682 of 10687)
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Iraq mis-information building struck

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

lchic - 07:06am Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10683 of 10687)
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The iraq repression system, it is said, has 1 person in 10 taking note of the other nine, torturing and beating them if considered necessary .... so advancing armies have to 'decimate' - literally - but who ?

Mandella has a mind-ist-ist

lchic - 07:15am Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10684 of 10687)
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armistice - ending of hostilities

then

mindistice - ending of pursuit of the formerly mislead

lchic - 07:24am Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10685 of 10687)
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Blair

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,925082,00.html

Of course, events on the ground could rapidly unblock with Saddam's regime belatedly following the Pentagon script and duly falling to its knees. But the way things stand now, this war is going badly for the PM. These first 10 days have disproved two of his core, pre-war arguments: that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction and that his people would instantly see foreign invasion as liberation. If, heaven forbid, Baghdad had let loose a chemical warhead or two, it would have confirmed everything Blair and George Bush had said: that, for all his lies, Saddam has these vile weapons and is prepared to use them.

Conversely, if there had been no Iraqi resistance, London and Washington would again have been vindicated: Iraqis hate their leader so much, they prefer invasion to their current plight. But this war has been neither hard enough nor easy enough to prove Blair right: instead it is turning out to be a slog that shows he and the military planners read Iraq wrong. In the choice words of America's top infantry commander, William Wallace: "The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed against."

"The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed against."

If these guys were in-charge of a full on Nuclear Attack ..... and couldn't backtrack .... how 'wrong wrong wrong' might they be!?!

lchic - 07:42am Mar 29, 2003 EST (# 10686 of 10687)
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GU talk

... it currently takes four days to get a supply truck or a water or fuel tanker ...

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.4a910020/0

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.4a90eb1d/0 market garden 1944 - Iraq 2003

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