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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
- 07:26am Jul 14, 2002 EST (#3049
of 3052)
John Pilger / The great charade
Comment: As the West prepares
for an assault on Iraq, John Pilger argues that 'war on terror' is a
smokescreen created by the ultimate terrorist ... America itself.
... Having swept the Palestinians into the arms of the supreme
terrorist Ariel Sharon, the Christian Right fundamentalists
running the plutocracy in Washington, now replenish their arsenal
in preparation for an attack on the 22 million suffering people of
Iraq. Should anyone need reminding, Iraq is a nation held hostage
to an American-led embargo every bit as barbaric as the
dictatorship over which Iraqis have no control. Contrary to
propaganda orchestrated from Washington and London, the coming
attack has nothing to do with Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass
destruction', if these exist at all. The reason is that America
wants a more compliant thug to run the world's second greatest
source of oil. The drum-beaters rarely mention this truth, and
the people of Iraq. Everyone is Saddam Hussein, the demon of demons.
Four years ago, the Pentagon warned President Clinton that an
all-out attack on Iraq might kill 'at least' 10,000 civilians: that,
too, is unmentionable. In a sustained propaganda campaign to justify
this outrage, journalists on both sides of the Atlantic have been
used as channels, 'conduits', for a stream of rumours and lies. ....
Professor Richard Falk, of Cornell university, put it succinctly
some years ago. Western foreign policy, he wrote, is propagated in
the media 'through a self righteous, one-way moral/legal screen
[with] positive images of western values and innocence portrayed as
threatened, validating a campaign of unrestricted violence'. ....
In 1993, the UN Truth Commission on El Salvador named the army
officers who had committed the worst atrocities of the civil war;
two-thirds of them had been trained at Fort Benning. ...
Bush's people have blocked hundreds of millions of dollars going
to the most deprived people on earth, those without clean water and
electricity. ....
The other day, in an open letter to their compatriots and the
world, almost 100 of America's most distinguished names in art,
literature and education wrote this:
'Let it not be said that people in the United States did nothing
when their government declared a war without limit and instituted
stark new measures of repression. We believe that questioning,
criticism and dissent must be valued and protected. Such rights are
always contested and must be fought for. We, too, watched with shock
the horrific events of September 11. But the mourning had barely
begun when our leaders launched a spirit of revenge. The government
now openly prepares to wage war on Iraq - a country that has no
connection with September 11.
'We say this to the world. Too many times in history people have
waited until it was too late to resist. We draw on the inspiration
of those who fought slavery and all those other great causes of
freedom that began with dissent. We call on all like-minded people
around the world to join us.'
Book : The New Rulers of the World / John Pilger
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,754972,00.html
lchic
- 08:18am Jul 14, 2002 EST (#3050
of 3052)
GU thread| Bush empire| dirty money discussion
http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?128@@.eeceaea
rshow55
- 09:37am Jul 14, 2002 EST (#3051
of 3052) 
Harken Papers Offer Details on Bush Knowledge Motive for
Stock Sale In '90 Remains Unclear
By Mike Allen and George Lardner Jr. Washington Post Staff
Writers Sunday, July 14, 2002; Page A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1447-2002Jul13.html
"Although Bush has maintained over the years that
the size of the losses took him by surprise, interviews and
internal Harken documents provide a newly detailed picture of how
much Bush knew about Harken's financial straits when he sold the
stock.
Bush knew a lot . The details ought to be investigated
more, understood more, and not forgotten.
If one searches "CIA" on this thread, there is a lot of
discussion. Mr XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX , to whom I addressed the letter
to CIA in MD2472-2477 rshow55
6/6/02 9:23pm . . went from head of an investment banking
house to a senior position at CIA. Such connections are not
uncommon.
The "magical good luck" of Bush and many of his associates may be
far less magical than it appears.
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