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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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rshow55 - 09:24am Apr 3, 2003 EST (# 10990 of 10994)
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.

Here are more links from this thread commenting on the possibility that Saddam is dead.

"He's dead" as an explanation for strange conduct: 9900-1 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11442

A definition including a suggestion that this question should check a rush to war - and a way to check: 9902-3 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11446

Almarst denying Saddam's being living or dead matters - list of issues: 9905 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11449

If Saddam is dead - new possibilities open up: 9926 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11470

It seems to me that, if the United Nations decision making means anything - the matter needs to be checked: 9928 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11472

Test question: if Saddam is dead - would leaders know what to do? 9933 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11477

But if the decision to go to war is already made - nothing matters: 9937 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11482

If Saddam is probably dead - the old challenge "Saddam" gave to debate Bush should be accepted , because legitimacy determines how people fight. 9942-3 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11487

9945 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11490

9948-9 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11493

Is Iraq is a country run by "the Wizard of Oz" ? 9950 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11495

It is easy to check the matter, and the stakes are huge: 9951-52 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11496

9955-6 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11500

Almarst - Saddam's survival isn't everything: 9964 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11509

"The Saddam Hussein show" 9987 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.UpbZapbp64w.208935@.f28e622/11532

Iraqi leader controls prime time with cool, confidence http://www.msnbc.com/news/884593.asp?0sl=-23

Picture: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein speaks to his war cabinet in Baghdad in this image from television. Saddam has lately assumed a prominent role on the Iraqi television news, imparting a cool diligence to the nation of 23 million people.

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lchic - 10:35am Mar 15, 2003 EST (# 9988

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