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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 - 05:08pm Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4088 of 4100)

The 'nature' of Saddam was KNOWN to the USA .... didn't this guy gas KURDS!!

So, why didn't the US take the guy out when Norm was the Storm?

Why did they LEAVE the MONSTER in power - deliberatly - a decade ago.

This is the question the world has voiced for the last decade ....

SADDAM was the USA's MAN!

He didn't change his 'spots' .... the world connected the dots on the guy way back ... didn't he KILL his daughter's husbands .... aren't many of his relatives 'elsewhere - worldwise' living as far away from him as they could get .... (some live this way) ....

Saddam has been Saddam for decades .... so why was it 'politically correct' for him to be left to rule by Storming Norman ...

Answers ...... go for it GUY(s) .....

wrcooper - 05:09pm Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4089 of 4100)

mazza9 8/31/02 4:20pm

Pretty intersting stories. I'm not sure I believe them, Lou. :) I'd like to have seen a garage door opener open a missile silo. And launching a missile with a paper clip and rubber bands. Makes a helluva story, but they've got online sites for urban myths that would curl your hair. Maybe we need a site for military myths?

Just kidding, partner. I'm sure it's all 100% accurate info. Lucky thing, then, that we didn't have an accidental war.

lchic - 05:17pm Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4090 of 4100)

Iraq is/was about OIL

If there's a surplus of oil around ... then ... to take-out Iraq

To turn off the Iraq supply for a while

In an economic sense ... what does this do to the price of oil

Wouldn't it make 'non-Iraq' oil more rare

Causing a rise in oil price

So, if oil greases the whirring wheels of industry .. to 'increase' the price through supposed scarcity (As per 1972-4) would put MONEY into the pockets of those with OIL interests

At the same time as hiking oil prices the flow-on would be an increase in the cost of living for the entire world

So who'd stand to benefit if oil prices rose

Not regular folks!

So who are the STAKEHOLDERS in OIL ....

GUY(s) can you run back through this and former board and look for OIL NAMES .. OIL COUNTRIES ..

Which Tx Americans are stakeholders with oil .... let's guess

Bush
Cheney

So after gutting companies from the inside -- it's time to gut the real people --- time to force up their living costs --- time to 'tax' them wrt oil

The above would be the take the world generally would have wrt the US logics on Saddam .... isn't that so?!

lchic - 05:23pm Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4091 of 4100)

machiavellian

Well you GUY(s) are posting 'between' my postings ... always indicative in your belief that NYT thread readers somehow read only the last two posts on the board .... and yet regular followers of a thread would read on from where they left off .. or look to the headers in the index and pick appropriately ...

Do you disinformationMonikerHacks get dollars in 'brown paper bags' for each of your monikers ... or are you 'listed' as Bush PR guys ... have real names ... and are checkable on a list available in the 'public fredom of access to information' sense ......

The wheelings dealings and workings of Governments are very machiavellian - very !

lchic - 05:31pm Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4092 of 4100)

blame a campaign of preaching linked to aid distribution by Islamic charities backed by wealthy Gulf governments - including that of Saudi Arabia -
http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,780170,00.html

lchic - 05:33pm Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4093 of 4100)

Kissinger has never let me down, as a person to consult before making up my own mind. Stepping lightly over his one-man rolling war-crime wave, extending from Bangladesh through Indochina to Chile and East Timor, I pause to notice that he was the man who ...
http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,780386,00.html

wrcooper - 05:44pm Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4094 of 4100)

lchic 8/31/02 5:23pm

So you still think Mazza and I are posting under assumed names and we work for the Bush administration?

Why?

I'm just curious about how a mind like yours works.

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