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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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bluestar23 - 05:02am Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16610 of 16616)

Robert Burns, Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Among the questions that investigators are asking about the lethal shoot-down of an Army Chinook helicopter in Iraq is whether the chopper used the standard defenses against surface-to-air weapons, such as flares designed to deceive a heat-seeking missile.

Details of circumstances in which the dual-rotor CH-47D Chinook was shot out of the sky over central Iraq on Sunday, killing 16 soldiers and injuring 20, were incomplete Monday.

An Army spokesman at the Pentagon, Maj. Gary Tallman, said all CH-47D helicopters are equipped with missile defense systems, but it was

bluestar23 - 05:03am Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16611 of 16616)

"What's happening in Cuba ????"

Shutup, lchic, you fool.....

lchic - 05:19am Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16612 of 16616)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Pauline said

Politicians have no idea (Prison/Australia)

DAD I'M WASTING AWAY IN HERE

'Shut up ... '

She's going to HELP the innocent

He'd been cubed

REPRESSION this and every session

bluestar23 - 05:21am Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16613 of 16616)

Soon Showalter will be back for today's repetition of the "topics": "Eisenhower"...."call me Ishmael".... "connecting the dots in interconnected ways"...."things" he has to have a (face-to-face [or not]"meeting with NYT") about: all repeated again and again until the 14th...

lchic - 05:21am Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16614 of 16616)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Judges and lawyers from around the world yesterday condemned the US treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba as a violation of international law.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1060606,00.html

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/commissions.html

lchic - 05:34am Nov 6, 2003 EST (# 16615 of 16616)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Buck's commanding officer has placed him on the early morning shift.

Buck complains that he's present, and as ever, incorrect ... but where oh where can that Showalter be?

Buck impatiently gameplays with his Cardboard Heroes

http://www.sysabend.org/champions/mirrors/serena/index.html

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