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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 - 06:38am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17077 of 17106)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Nobody reads the Cantabbulator's gibberish - save your breath!

lchic - 06:39am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17078 of 17106)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Common Provision - the need for - USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/opinion/10HERB.html

lchic - 07:20am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17079 of 17106)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

ECHO e c h o echo ECHO

"" But while visitors muse on the connection between the 1950s and the present crisis, one thing remains different: no new Joe McCarthy is rampaging through US politics.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,638175,00.html

"Not right now, there isn't," Ms Louagie says, portentously.

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That was then --- this is now

lchic - 07:35am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17080 of 17106)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

"This place is wretched enough - a villainous chaos of din and drunkenness, nothing but hazard and burgundy, hunting, mathematics and Newmarket, riot and racing." He resolved not to return

http://rabbit.trin.cam.ac.uk/WLByron.html

It might also have been said by Gisterme!

lchic - 07:41am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17081 of 17106)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

http://www.org.mk/knowledge/dokument.asp?ID=126

lchic - 07:51am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17082 of 17106)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/

lchic - 07:55am Nov 10, 2003 EST (# 17083 of 17106)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

"" The bombing provoked near-universal outrage among Saudis, who awoke yesterday to find gruesome images of those injured by flying glass on the front pages of newspapers. No one could understand why fellow Arabs had been the target. Many initially refused to believe it could have been the work of al-Qa'ida, especially as the bomber struck in the middle of the fasting month of Ramadan. Inevitably, conspiracy theories about CIA and Mossad involvement started to circulate.

If it was al-Qa'ida, it may be seen ultimately as an own goal. The attack will damage the support the organisation has in Saudi Arabia, where anti-US sentiment has been fed by America's support for Israel's continuing crackdown on the intifada and the occupation of neighbouring Iraq.

The ruling Saud family is now al-Qa'ida's number one target, and the kingdom has become the front line in the so-called war on terror. Since 12 May, more than 600 suspected Islamists have been arrested and more than 2,000 suspects have been interrogated. Saudi Arabia's security forces have lost a dozen men in their almost weekly battles with al-Qa'ida fighters and killed more than 15 suspects.

The bombing could have been launched on the basis of outdated information that the compound was home to mostly Americans and Britons. Until the late 1990s, it was occupied and sponsored by ...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=462253

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