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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 - 07:30am Jul 12, 2003 EST (# 12968 of 12975)
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.

Perhaps I'm moving too slowly sorting out that briefing, but it doesn't feel slow - given the staffing I have available.

And other happenings that I feel honor bound - duty bound to attend to. I'm keeping my promises to Casey and Eisenhower.

The analogies between this story - and the story of NASA's evasions and coverups leading up to and after Challenger are very, very close. Who, within a bureacracy, stands up against a boss determined to ignore what would be said? It is surely technically true that CIA formally signed off on the President's speech - but operationally misleading - grossly false.

How many career intelligence professionals could stand up to gisterme - who goes out of his way to be a bully - and how many professionals of that kind have achieved and maintained high rank? Is Bush so very different from gisterme? Or different at all?

Text of the C.I.A. Director's Statement By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/11/international/worldspecial/11WIRE-TENET-TEXT.html

The United States is coming to resemble, far too much, a country with the operational links and controls Nazi Germany had. Without many more safeguards. That's dangerous. And shameful. There are a lot of things that need to be checked.

The Uranium Fiction http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/12/opinion/12SAT1.html

We're glad that someone in Washington has finally taken responsibility for letting President Bush make a false accusation about Iraq's nuclear weapons program, but the matter will not end there.

For the sake of this country - it shouldn't end there.

lchic - 07:38am Jul 12, 2003 EST (# 12969 of 12975)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

GWB drops 9 points in poll (now 59%)

fredmoore - 07:38am Jul 12, 2003 EST (# 12970 of 12975)

Terror is an expression of 'what' --- define it ?

BOOM! BOOM!

Forget about coming back to my room!

rshow55 - 08:40am Jul 12, 2003 EST (# 12971 of 12975)
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.

Terror: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=terror

Intense, overpowering fear.

One that instills intense fear: a rabid dog that became the terror of the neighborhood.

The ability to instill intense fear: the terror of jackboots pounding down the street.

Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.

http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=terror

Americans need to be less easily cowed - and the also need to confront and stop the terrorists.

The vulnerability of Americans to terror and intimidation - including intimidation from their own government, and from each other - is a major problem.

A lot of people should be ashamed that they are so easily cowed.

And so easily bamboozled.

We have to be very concerned about the degree to which our press has been for sale - - and Attack on the ad-man seems very much worth posting here.

4136 rshow55 9/2/02 7:28pm http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.hArZbJK8p6c.835390@.f28e622/5217

Attack On The Ad-Man A.S.J. Tessimond.

lchic - 08:46am Jul 12, 2003 EST (# 12972 of 12975)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

What!?

A simple 'what' you misconstrue - that's not untypical of you

The 'what' above - i did implore - examine, weigh and next explore

To find root cause of evil in -- then dissipate - a lessening

A combing out of tangled inner -- logic that’s just not a winner

lchic - 09:20am Jul 12, 2003 EST (# 12973 of 12975)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

"Under the blow of thralled discontent" *

The 'whats' of terror their lot lament

*Sonnet 124 Shakespeare

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