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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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almarst2002 - 09:38pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12233 of 12253)

Bush's Illegal War - Let Us Count the Violations -

http://www.counterpunch.org/bacher05302003.html

"What Weston and other human rights experts see in Iraq - rather than a "Pax Americana" - is the imposition of an aggressive military empire designed to control resources to offset future economic competition from the European Union (EU) and China."

Not so according to "patriotic" US media.

almarst2002 - 09:46pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12234 of 12253)

Just Wars, samples - http://free-and-fair.com/justwars/?fwd=1

almarst2002 - 09:51pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12235 of 12253)

What happens next? - http://www.sundayherald.com/32721

almarst2002 - 09:59pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12236 of 12253)

WMD just a convenient excuse for war, admits Wolfowitz

http://www.sabawoon.com/articles.asp?id=13500&view=detail

almarst2002 - 10:01pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12237 of 12253)

Just four days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Paul Wolfowitz knew what the U.S. response should be and it had little to do with chasing Osama bin Laden's terrorist legions around the dusty hills of Afghanistan. He wanted to invade Iraq and depose Saddam Hussein.

http://www.sabawoon.com/articles.asp?id=13453&view=detail

almarst2002 - 10:20pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12238 of 12253)

http://www.sabawoon.com/default.htm

THE FACE OF FEAR.

- The U.S. air campaign and the subsequent Special Forces attacks must be 'marketed' to the American public. The U.S air war is a military 'Mister Clean.' The carnage must be cleansed and sanitized of detached limbs, trunks of torsos, disfigured and burnt bodies. Every effort has been made to do so - including ignoring civilian casualties - and when Al-Jazeera presents images of gore and blood, the managers of the U.S. propaganda establishment - whether corporate media, human rights groups, or academics - rise in a chorus of righteous condemnation. A simple question might be asked: How many photos of Afghans dismembered by U.S. bombs or missiles have you seen in the corporate media? - http://www.cursor.org/stories/noncounters.htm

The Value of a Dead Afghan: Revealed and Relative - http://www.cursor.org/stories/afghandead.htm

Crashing the Wedding Party: Arrogance, Pentagon Speak and Spooky's Carnage - http://www.cursor.org/stories/kakarak.htm

The Convoy of Death”, Part 1 - http://www.democracynow.org/afghanfilm.shtml

The Convoy of Death”, Part 2 - http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/26/1632226

Afghan Massacre: RealMedia - http://play.rbn.com/?url=demnow/demnow/demand/dn20030523b.rm&proto=rtsp

Afghan war documentary charges US with mass killings of POWs - http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jun2002/afgh-j17.shtml

Hundreds of Afghan Civilians Killed in U.S. War on Terror: NYT - http://www.sabawoon.com/search.asp?id=10227&view=detail&newsdate=7/22/2002

US Rights Group: Over 800 Afghan Civilians Killed In US Air strikes - http://www.sabawoon.com/search.asp?id=10226&view=detail&newsdate=7/22/2002

Interview with Jamie Doran, director of "Massacre at Mazar" - http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jun2002/dora-j17.shtml

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