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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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almarst2003 - 07:10am Aug 22, 2003 EST (# 13349 of 13357)

Australian inquiry told government lied - http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=4154911

almarst2003 - 07:20am Aug 22, 2003 EST (# 13350 of 13357)

U.S. Troops Provoke Anger, Fear in Afghan Villages - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=574&e=5&u=/nm/20030819/wl_nm/afghan_taliban_dc_7

almarst2002 - 09:36am Aug 22, 2003 EST (# 13351 of 13357)

The president's real goal in Iraq - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2319.htm

By JAY BOOKMAN

The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence. The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was missing.

In recent days, those missing pieces have finally begun to fall into place. As it turns out, this is not really about Iraq. It is not about weapons of mass destruction, or terrorism, or Saddam, or U.N. resolutions.

This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out by those who believe the United States must seize the opportunity for global domination, even if it means becoming the "American imperialists" that our enemies always claimed we were.

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