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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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almarst2003
- 07:37pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (#
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Officials say the US is frustrated by its hand-picked
council members, who they say have spent more time on their
own political or economic interests than in planning Iraq's
political future, especially selecting a committee to write a
new constitution.
"We're unhappy with all of them. They're not acting as a
legislative or governing body, and we need to get moving," one
well-placed US official said. "They just don't make decisions
when they need to." http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/09/1068329422664.html
DEMOCRACY ACTS MUCH SLOWER THEN DICTATORSHIP ... THEY
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN...
almarst2003
- 07:41pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (#
17192 of 17221)
Addressing his colleagues on Oct. 17, Byrd had outdone
himself rhetorically -- and come as close to losing his temper
as his ingrained courtliness would permit. Railing against the
$87 billion supplemental-appropriations bill for occupation
and "reconstruction" in Iraq, Byrd reprised the fairy tale
"The Emperor's New Clothes" to illustrate how the country
had been marched into war by a Praetorian Guard of confidence
men, egged on by a president's vanity -- and how the con game
persists. - http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1104-09.htm
almarst2003
- 07:48pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (#
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Of all the president’s advisers, Cheney has consistently
taken the most dire view of the terrorist threat. On Iraq,
Bush was the decision maker. But more than any adviser, Cheney
was the one to make the case to the president that war against
Iraq was an urgent necessity. Beginning in the late summer of
2002, he persistently warned that Saddam was stocking up on
chemical and biological weapons, and last March, on the eve of
the invasion, he declared that “we believe that he [Saddam
Hussein] has in fact reconstituted nuclear weapons.” (Cheney
later said that he meant “program,” not “weapons.” He also
said, a bit optimistically, “I really do believe that we will
be greeted as liberators.”) After seven months, investigators
are still looking for that arsenal of WMD. http://www.msnbc.com/news/991209.asp?cp1=1
almarst2003
- 07:50pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (#
17194 of 17221)
Warplanes resume bombing in Iraq - http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/09/1068329418990.html
WITH THE BEST POSSIBLE INTENTIONS... DON'T GET ME WRONG.
rshow55
- 07:51pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (#
17195 of 17221) 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.
Maybe some headway has been made:
Mission Statements: 15134-5 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.aekHbS9oXfP.2655448@.f28e622/16846
lchic
- 07:57pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (#
17196 of 17221) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has
to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
11th Day, 11th hour (my way) Standing to attention to
remember
http://www.castlemountains.com/postcards/littleredpoppy.html
http://www.defence.gov.au/army/traditions/documents/InFlandersField_1.htm
----
Reading the words to In Flanders Field, second link, one
can see why it is important that
Negotiation
be thought through more carefully
bluestar23
- 08:01pm Nov 10, 2003 EST (#
17197 of 17221)
rshow55:
"Lchic and I have intended for this thread to be, (or
prototype) the largest bandwidth, clearest line of
political-military communication that has ever existed between
the US and Russia."
"Clearest line" just might be picking up White House phone
and dialling up mr. Putin...? Where has vital nation-to-nation
communication been managed by Internet TalkBoards..?
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