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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 - 10:30pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12239 of 12253)

the following questions need to be answered:

Do U.S. weapons sales and military training bestow professionalism and democratic standards as claimed?

Do they allow the United States to influence and advise in times of crisis?

Do they contribute to the nation’s stability?

Or do they in fact exacerbate the dangerous and dysfunctional overlap of military and political power, making war more likely and more deadly while benefiting U.S. weapons manufacturers, multinational corporations and Indonesian power elites?

http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/indo092001.html

bbbuck - 10:33pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12240 of 12253)

sabawoon? Isn't that a popular name in the Camaroon?

to jorian319:

The term 'The Poster' usually employed by lchic (alias looneychic, lupeychic, lunarchic, posts on the Guardian forums as bunnymuffin) refers to anyone lchic is currently engaged with or is currently taunting.

'The Poster' is everyone and at the same time 'no one'. I hope that clears that mystery up for you.

On a side note

gisterme is condoleeza rice or henry kissinger

wrcooper is bob hope.

And of course I am the 'komodo buck'. But you can call me bubba bob buck.

I think rshow is either 'richard jeni' or kosmo kramer.

almarst2002 - 10:38pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12241 of 12253)

http://www.warblogging.com/

— Rumsfeld: Regime Change in Iran

— Rumsfeld: Saddam May Have Disarmed

— Free Speech Zones and John Ashcroft

— US Violates Laws of War

— Assault on Iran Continues

— Memorial Day

— The PATRIOT Act, Iran, PNAC, Congo and More!

— The Way It Should Be Done

— US Cancels US-Iranian Talks Over Terror

— UNSC Lifts Sanctions; Gives Anglo Alliance Control

— Transition for Iraq

— TIA and LifeLog: Who Doesn't Want Info on Terrorists?

— Democracy at Home and Abroad

— Making Israel and Palestine Work for Us

— "Anarchy" in Iraq; Drum Beats Grow Louder

— Faith-Based Intelligence

— With Warning, al-Qaeda Strikes Saudi Arabia

— DoD, State, Bremer, Halliburton and al-Qaeda

— Iranian Nuclear Ambition and Regime Change

— Creating a Link Without the Link: Mrs Anthrax

— On Aircraft Carriers, Special Plans and Pax Americana

— Speaking of Empire

— Anger

— George W. Bush: Liar in Chief

— Iraqis: "Sooner or later, US killers, we'll kick you out"

— Maher (Mike) Hawash Charged

— Saddam-al-Qaeda Link? Bah!

— Americans Fire Into Crowd; Humiliate Naked Iraqis

— Tariq Aziz Offered Safe Haven

— Bush: Iraq May Have Destroyed WMD

almarst2002 - 10:43pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12242 of 12253)

Women losing freedoms in chaos of postwar Iraq - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/24/MN135276.DTL

almarst2002 - 10:44pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12243 of 12253)

Operation Orwell: the project that never went away http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~1404202,00.html

To address public fears of invasive Big Brother, Congress planned to halt funding until the Pentagon issued a detailed report. That report was released Tuesday. But documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, show that even before those concerns were addressed, the Pentagon marched forward with its plans for the database. The government awarded $95 million in contracts to defense firms and academic institutions, despite public outcry.

bbbuck - 10:50pm May 30, 2003 EST (# 12244 of 12253)

Alarmist200x is some lonely guy in America who used to live in Russia.

He posts the same thing here that he does on the 'bush forum' and 'America is fighting the fcking world'.

No one here exchanges any argument with him and he is also ignored on the other forums mentioned.

I think he is Lenin's great-great grand nephew.

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