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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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lchic - 02:23am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14390 of 14398)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

bluey - the last two sentences are yours!

lchic - 02:28am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14391 of 14398)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

The bloke from Russia says get the hell out of Iraq - soonest

and the hell into Russian Oil fields and get them developed

'get into Iraq with that liberal diplomacy - fast' overture ?

cantabb - 03:11am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14392 of 14398)

bluestar23 - 01:05am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14389 of 14391)

Glad you posted the list. :)

Mistaken identities: Looks like a "Loop Test"

Same speculation on a poster, same insistence on its accuracy over time, same realization, much later. of the mistake !

To quote his esteemed collaborator, lchic: "It got understood and exposed."

Now speculating about MY ID: an employee of NYT -- See how my job evolves. Says it is a "basic" and "valid" question.

cantabb - 04:29am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14393 of 14398)

lchic - 12:29am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14384 of 14392)

Don't rain on His parade - over which he reigneth

Because he has no 'clothes' ?

"It got understood and exposed"

rshow55 - 06:58am Oct 6, 2003 EST (# 14394 of 14398)
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.

cantabb - occasionally writes something worthwhile, and to the point - and he did so in 14370 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.oIcJbRwPL7Y.733123@.f28e622/16080 which I'm excerpting. Cantabb quotes bluestar23 - 08:39pm Oct 5, 2003 EST (# 14366 of 14368)

Superficially, it is easy to see what is happening here. rshow55, . . . believes he is engaging in a serious National-Security dialogue with Very Important Persons through this Forum.

Cantabb comments:

"But he has been asked -- ordained -- by a former president and CIA director and others -- to 'come through' NYT, and obviously NYT HAD to oblige.

"The guy had made "promises" to these people and we don't him to do anything to see him go back/break his "promises," do we ? Even though, he now admits he has already broken one of his "promises" by divulging his connection to them. He's waiting for CIA and NSC to release him from his "house arrest." Or, discuss this openly in public [with a reliable third party present].

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The excerpted points above, as excerpted, are fair summaries. Fair to both me and the NYT, as far as they go.

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