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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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cantabb - 10:56pm Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15382 of 15389)

wrcooper - 06:17pm Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15369 of 15370)

Still peddling the same one Rx cures ALL !

[to jorian re: rshow55]: Surely you jest. You're suggesting the leopard change his spots. The only way that will happen with Show Bob is to melt him down and ref*ck him ....

‘Wonderful' thoughts from a long-time ‘regular’ on this forum, who presumably had long sought to have a face-to-face with rshow55, and claimed to have tred to help him !

Bob paranoically sees conspiracies in every bush. Whoever disagrees with him must, of necessity, be somebody big and important conspiring to keep him down........I wonder if he's really bared his suspicions and conspiracy theories to his shrink.

Thanks for your psychoanalysis !

Put rshow55, lchic and cantabb on your "Ignore Posts list"! It's amazing how much clutter is thereby removed.

Hey, it works!

Again, IF “it works,” it “works” for YOU. Not a panacea for everyone else. Enjoy it. Why keep whining about the weeds you ignore and don’t want to see ?

cantabb - 11:00pm Oct 21, 2003 EST (# 15383 of 15389)

In my # 15379 to rshow55:

"All deal WITH your personal situation – nothing to do with MD or this board."

lchic - 01:26am Oct 22, 2003 EST (# 15384 of 15389)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Eating at the top table in Canberra :

'' Some Labor MPs are planning to protest against Mr Bush when he addresses parliament next Thursday, although several MPs have backed down from earlier threats to turn their back on him during his speech.

Asked if he would mind the protests, Mr Bush said: "Not at all. It means democracy is alive and well. I don't expect everyone to agree with us.

"But one thing is for certain, the Prime Minister (John Howard) was strong and the Australian military performed brilliantly, I mean brilliantly.

"And I think a lot of people would like to hear that from the American President (and) I'm going to tell them. And if somebody feels like they want to express discontent, that's OK, that's democracy." '' The Australian 16thOct03

At the lower table :

Children, wives, and a father of two Australians detained in Cuba - for two years - without being charged or tried ... will wear pictures of their loved ones ....

Will Bush notice?

lchic - 01:40am Oct 22, 2003 EST (# 15385 of 15389)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

? Contradiction :

'People are wired up to be 'nice' to each other'

v

'Kids pick fights'

Next throw in the nasty stuff ... that gives 'commissions'

bluestar23 - 01:41am Oct 22, 2003 EST (# 15386 of 15389)

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.ee7b085/519

I have discovered the above Showalter GuardianTalk thread...another , in addition to this one AND ANOTHER GuardianTalk thread. He's got at least these three threads going....it's incredible to see the number of times and threads he's repeated one or two posts....a dozen times, three dozen...

lchic - 01:52am Oct 22, 2003 EST (# 15387 of 15389)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

' ' ... the nation's capital is once more embroiled in a gale-force scandal. It is an extraordinary affair that combines espionage, political dirty tricks and weapons of mass destruction - a heady mix normally found only in airport thrillers. But fact has had a knack of trumping fiction in Washington lately. In principle at least, this is worse than Watergate and far worse than Bill Clinton's sexual liaisons. According to the claims now under scrutiny by the FBI, senior officials in the Bush administration (possibly including aides close to the president himself) blew the cover of a high-ranking CIA agent in order to punish and discredit her husband, a critic of the administration. In doing so, they endangered the very national security in the name of which the administration has so far invaded two countries. Ironically, the agent in question was a leading player in the monitoring and pursuit of weapons of mass destruction around the world.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1068124,00.html

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