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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 - 04:06pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17018 of 17083)

Bluestar: I think rshow will be around somewhere. Has too much invested in his 'corpus', largest ever, and has to 'function'. And, work --- on what, to be announced later, I suppose

btw, Did you happen to see the 'Science in the News' exchange? I think you'll like it.

lchic - 05:26pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17019 of 17083)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

"" The wangkeROOS may be the literary mob character acting ... arrogant non-content fool-around pre-pubescents in free flight between Comicsville and Mars.

I read 11 million people look in on NYT web over the course of a year ..... ""

extract from the post i just laid down on Science in the News .... how far the mighty NYT has fallen!

almarst2003 - 05:28pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17020 of 17083)

Case for war confected, say top US officials - http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=461953 Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 09 November 2003

An unprecedented array of US intelligence professionals, diplomats and former Pentagon officials have gone on record to lambast the Bush administration for its distortion of the case for war against Iraq. In their view, the very foundations of intelligence-gathering have been damaged in ways that could take years, even decades, to repair.

A new documentary film beginning to circulate in the United States features one powerful condemnation after another, from the sort of people who usually stay discreetly in the shadows - a former director of the CIA, two former assistant secretaries of defence, a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia and even the man who served as President Bush's Secretary of the Army until just a few months ago.

Between them, the two dozen interviewees reveal how the pre-war intelligence record on Iraq showed virtually the opposite of the picture the administration painted to Congress, to US voters and to the world. They also reconstruct the way senior White House officials - notably Vice-President Dick Cheney - leaned on the CIA to find evidence that would fit a preordained set of conclusions.

lchic - 05:28pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17021 of 17083)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

" This is not the end.

It is not even the beginning of the end.

But it is perhaps the end of the beginning "

lchic - 05:31pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17022 of 17083)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

In 1942 Churchill said

" This is not the end.

It is not even the beginning of the end.

But it is perhaps the end of the beginning "

after routing the Nazi at El Alamein WWII

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Rummy parodies Winston perhaps ?

almarst2003 - 05:32pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17023 of 17083)

A former chief of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, has accused the United States and Britain of lack of foresight over the Iraq invasion and warned of even greater violence unless the civic infrastructure is established quickly.

Major General Danny Yatom said the presence of Western forces in Iraq has presented the opportunity for a holy war, or jihad, by Islamists in a country surrounded by Muslim neighbours.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=461945

almarst2003 - 05:34pm Nov 9, 2003 EST (# 17024 of 17083)

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (AFP) - The leader of US Senate Republicans has suspended a politically damaging inquiry into possible inadequacies or misuse of pre-war intelligence on Iraq, saying it was being manipulated "to politically wound the president of the United States."

http://www.prolog.net/webnews/wed/ae/Qus-iraq-weapons-probe.Rhap_DN8.html

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