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    Missile Defense

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 - 02:38pm Apr 5, 2003 EST (# 11145 of 11152)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

SARS - China - failed to face up to the 'truth' of the SARS crisis .... has now appologised for not handling the matter well .... yet still says 'It is contained' ....

There's often a failure by China to appreciate the value of a 'life' !

lchic - 02:40pm Apr 5, 2003 EST (# 11146 of 11152)
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Showalter - if you have the Maslow-Communcation-Power model links to hand - it would be a good time to post them.

lchic - 02:42pm Apr 5, 2003 EST (# 11147 of 11152)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Fred's use of the term 'heavy machinery' registered in my mind as that that pumped out units/wigits of value to commerce .... whereas he meant 'military gear' that pumps out --- death

We had 'cross wires' over that Fred!

lchic - 02:45pm Apr 5, 2003 EST (# 11148 of 11152)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Former Iraqi chief of staff .... ended up in Denmark ... under 'Tolerated Residence' .... but ... now he's disappeared ... went out for a smoke and disappeared into the mist!

lchic - 03:07pm Apr 5, 2003 EST (# 11149 of 11152)
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FISK

Almost encircled by his American enemies, Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi state television last night, ambling through the residential suburbs of Baghdad, surrounded by delighted, cheering supporters, and even kissing a baby.

http://news.independent.co.uk/search/search.jsp?keywords=fisk&submit=Go

see (7) Hoon re Marketplace|Fisk

Geoff Hoon, Robert Fisk and reporting the truth Independent Argument, 04 April 2003 Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, is a smooth politician who relies on nuance to do his dirty work: he did not say, in plain terms, that he disbelieves The Independent's accounts of civilian casualties sustained in Iraq.

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For a generation the gates of this camp belonging to President Saddam's fanatical militia had been kept tightly shut, the things that went on inside only to be told in whispers by the people of Nasiriyah, or else experienced first-hand by those unlucky enough to be brought here.

But yesterday the white-walled compound lay in blackened ruins and its open gates led the way to some of its awful secrets – torture, execution, ruthless support of President Saddam and even, it would seem, the imprisonment of American prisoners of war.

Yesterday's visit by The Independent was the first time an outsider had investigated the compound in Nasiriyah, and possibly any Fedayeen base inside Iraq. What lay inside the metal gates was a staggering scene and indicative of the way President Saddam has used these militia – officially under the control of his son Uday – to maintain his grip over the people of Iraq.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=394159

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lchic - 03:08pm Apr 5, 2003 EST (# 11150 of 11152)
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Showalter .... any Casablanca parallels :)

lchic - 03:10pm Apr 5, 2003 EST (# 11151 of 11152)
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Malysia - "" After 22 years, Mahathir Mohamad says he is going. His successor must find a way to preserve his achievements but dispense with his authoritarianism, says Christopher Lockwood

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1677228

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