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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 - 01:07pm Jun 5, 2003 EST (# 12314 of 12342)

"Almarst's core concerns - of which this seems to me the most fundamental - Almarst feels that you have to take care of people - and feels that neither capitalism, or American power, do that decently."

You got it WRONG, Robert.

Again, it goes to the CORE of my concern which is a Christian interpretation of Golden Rule overrulling the most importand one FIRST DO NO HARM.

The Christian interpretation is, in my view, the source of a great evils including totalitarism and Racism. It reflects their vision of the God Chosen teachers and masters of the World to bring the sulvation according to their vision. And make a fortune on the way, if possible.

So did Crusaders, Inquisitors, Missioneris, Colonial powers, Communists, Fascists, Slave owners, Fortune Owners, and, in a distinct American way, Big Gun Big Mouth posessors.

They reject the MORALS that stands in a way of their Power and wave the banner of those that promote their goals and ambitions.

Their mottos are:

The Goals Justify the Means.

Who is Not with us is Against us.

The Winner is not going to be judged and is justified to take ALL.

almarst2002 - 01:09pm Jun 5, 2003 EST (# 12315 of 12342)

"The prime minister of the Palestinian Authority talked about the suffering of the Jewish people."

Inflicted by CHRISTIANS

almarst2002 - 05:17pm Jun 5, 2003 EST (# 12316 of 12342)

Although thousands of Kurds were expelled from the region, following a brutal policy of "Arabisation" adopted by Saddam Hussein, they have returned to their homes after the war to offer their help harvesting the crops planted by their Arab neighbours.

But they have been told they have to "wait for permission from the Americans".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/04/wirq104.xml/

Harvesting? Don't they have more importand things to do? Like celebrate the LIBERATION?

almarst2002 - 05:22pm Jun 5, 2003 EST (# 12317 of 12342)

Tony Blair today rejected at least four calls - from the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and his own backbenches - for an independent judicial inquiry into the case for the Iraq war.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,970228,00.html

SO SAD... SUCH A DEVALUATION OF A WORD OF AN ENGLISH GENTELMAN...

almarst2002 - 05:28pm Jun 5, 2003 EST (# 12318 of 12342)

The Niger connection: Tony Blair, forged documents and the case for war - http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=412558

CASE FOR WAR? ... SUITCASE FOR WAR? ... NO! ITS BARREL FOR WAR.

almarst2002 - 05:44pm Jun 5, 2003 EST (# 12319 of 12342)

Intelligence chiefs tell Blair: no more spin, no more stunts

MI6 and MI5 chiefs have sought the government's assurance that it will never again pass off as official intelligence information which does not come from them.

They are also insisting that any information used by Downing Street claiming to be based on intelligence should be cleared by them first.

Senior officials in the security and intelligence services made it clear that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq was not as great as ministers suggested.

Their insistence that intelligence must not be abused for political ends was prompted in particular by a second dossier published in February containing some material supplied by MI6 but mixed with other information lifted from academic sources.

That, intelligence sources say, was a "serious error". They were already concerned about pressure from ministers to find information that backed up the US claim - not supported by British intelligence - that al-Qaida was linked to Baghdad. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,970680,00.html

TRANS-ATLANTIC BROTHERHOOD CHARTER

RULE #1 - US CLAIMS - BRITAIN FINDS.

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