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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 - 08:18pm Sep 4, 2003 EST (# 13516 of 13522)

International law is being arm-twisted, degraded and ignored - - - NO MATTER THE FACTS.

Since Roman Empire it is the known fact - "The Power superseeds the legality"

almarst2003 - 10:05pm Sep 4, 2003 EST (# 13517 of 13522)

Before the war, President Bush told us Iraq was a throbbing hub of terror. It wasn't, of course. But it is now http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1034488,00.html

CONNECTING THE DOTS;)

wrcooper - 11:20pm Sep 4, 2003 EST (# 13518 of 13522)

gisterme

I beg you to contact Showalter and end this farce.

Click on his handle to obtain his email address. Robert Showalter is also listed in the Madison, WI, telephone directory. Call him from a pay phone. Explain to him--give him enough information about yourself--to satisfy him that you are not Bush or anyone close to the president.

Please!

You don't need to reveal any information to him that would allow him to contact you. Just demonstrate to him, by answering questions about your posts and about his posts that only the author and a forum participant would be able to accurately and easily answer. That should at least quiet his nauseatingly repetitious posts proclaiming his belief that he's corresponding in this forum with a Bush insider, if not Bush himself.

Just do it, gisterme ! You're taking no risk. I would reveal the name of the state where you live and the city, if it's a big one. I would tell him your occupation and give him general information about your personal history. I would answer all his questions about your participation in the NYT forums.

Now, I know you've done some of this online, but he doesn't buy it. So let him hear your voice and realize you're not Bush or any of his minions.

I beg you!

gisterme - 12:04am Sep 5, 2003 EST (# 13519 of 13522)

Thanks, Lou. I guess I'll have to go to the library and check out the issue of AW&ST.

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