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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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fredmoore - 12:17am Aug 25, 2003 EST (# 13374 of 13380)

Lou, "I think we're on the same page but in the wrong venue! "

I like it here!. The Education Forum is sooo pedestrian. Besides, where else can you get to talk one on one with the President of the US (aka Gisterme). Further, last night, after my post, Enrique Iglasias was chosen as the new 'voice' for Pepsi over rivals JLo and Justin Timberlake. I feel that my post helped connect the dots to a firm closure in this choice, in ways that matter. By any courtroom standards Enrique is a more intelligent and aware person for 'branding' Pepsi products and he should be a positive role model for young people .... and .... a missile deterrent ... and .... he made it with Anna Kornukova.

PS Rhow and I now suspect you to be Ben Franklin reincarnated. Did you really fudge those electricity experiments?

And don't be surprised if, after this post, Texas offers you full time teaching or maybe even the directorship. Ben Franklin ... one giant Scoop for Texas education!

fredmoore - 12:25am Aug 25, 2003 EST (# 13375 of 13380)

"It costs nothing except a realtively small swath of hard drive that the moderators erase every few months or so, consigning the itsy bitsy bits of ipse dixit to the deep"

Ah, Will, in case you haven't noticed this forum was not achived when the others were and nothing except Kettenbergia has ever been deleted from it. It is a charmed thread ... for reasons best known to our hosts .........

almarst2002 - 08:32am Aug 25, 2003 EST (# 13376 of 13380)

THE reason the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad were bombed is because the UN has been taken over by the US and turned into a “dark joke” and a “malignant force”, according to one of the UN’s most internationally respected former leaders. Denis Halliday, the former UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq, attacked the UN as an aggressive arm of US foreign policy in the immediate aftermath of the truckbomb attack on the UN mission in Baghdad which killed at least 23 people – many of whom were Halliday’s former friends and colleagues.

“The West sees the UN as a benign organisation, but the sad reality in much of the world is that the UN is not seen as benign,” said Halliday, who was nominated for the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. “The UN Security Council has been taken over and corrupted by the US and UK, particularly with regard to Iraq, Palestine and Israel.

“In Iraq, the UN imposed sustained sanctions that probably killed up to one million people. Children were dying of malnutrition and water-borne diseases. The US and UK bombed the infrastructure in 1991, destroying power, water and sewage systems against the Geneva Convention. It was a great crime against Iraq. - http://www.sundayherald.com/36222

almarst2002 - 08:53am Aug 25, 2003 EST (# 13377 of 13380)

The creation and cultivation of fear is one of the pillars of empire both abroad and within the imperial “homeland.” - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4529.htm

The Australian government "skewed, misrepresented, used selectively and fabricated" the intelligence used to justify its decision to send troops to Iraq, a parliamentary inquiry in Canberra was told yesterday. - http://news.google.com/url?q=http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/story.jsp%3Fstory%3D436350

Emails show how No 10 constructed case for war - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4520.htm

Rep Henry Waxman: Who Forged the Iraq Evidence and Why? Bush Owes the Public Some Serious Answers. - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4512.htm

The Price of Freedom in Iraq and Power in Washington: A privatized occupation, reaping the financial rewards of warfare - http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4495.htm

Secrets Of History: The CIA In Iran: This Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the CIA backed coup in Iran which replaced Iran’s first democratically elected Prime Minister with the dictatorial regime of Mohammad Reza Shah - http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html

jorian319 - 09:01am Aug 25, 2003 EST (# 13378 of 13380)

wrcooper - 11:47pm Aug 24, 2003 EST (# 13373 of 13377)

Spot on, Coop!

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