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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 - 10:47pm Sep 19, 2002 EST (# 4436 of 4448)

FISK

Robert Fisk: President Bush wants war, not justice - and he'll soon find another excuse for it

Saddam Hussein's own cynicism - for he could have given UN inspectors free rein years ago - will be matched by Mr Bush's

18 September 2002

You've got to hand it to Saddam. In one brisk, neat letter to Kofi Annan, he pulled the rug from right under George Bush's feet. There was the American president last week, playing the role of multilateralist, warning the world that Iraq had one last chance – through the UN – to avoid Armageddon. "If the Iraqi regime wishes peace," he told us all in the General Assembly, "it will immediately and unconditionally forswear, disclose and remove or destroy all weapons of mass destruction, long-range missiles and all related material." And that, of course, is the point. Saddam would do everything he could to avoid war. President Bush was doing everything he could to avoid peace. And now the Iraqi regime has put the Americans into a corner.

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=334318

lchic - 11:08pm Sep 19, 2002 EST (# 4437 of 4448)

Showalter - I did post a few questions on patterns - but then took the post out - so the link back won't generate my query. rshow55 9/19/02 9:36pm

Thanks for your attention to my question.

A part of the question, thinking of upcoming war, included

"can we premptively recognise as yet incomplete patterns ... or ... only retrospectively have realisation"

almarst2002 - 03:23am Sep 20, 2002 EST (# 4438 of 4448)

WASHINGTON A U.S.-led ouster of President Saddam Hussein could open a bonanza for American oil companies long banished from Iraq, scuttling oil deals between Baghdad and Russia, France and other countries and reshuffling world petroleum markets, according to industry officials and Iraqi opposition leaders. - http://www.iht.com/articles/70789.html

It's time to start pricing the oil in BLOOD, not $

almarst2002 - 03:30am Sep 20, 2002 EST (# 4439 of 4448)

ROME A short-term military action in Iraq would probably have only a minor impact on the world economy, and could even produce a "positive effect" by eliminating uncertainty over the situation, according to the head of the International Monetary Fund. - http://www.iht.com/articles/71256.html

A DEATH is so much more "certain" and predictable then LIFE. And markets just hate uncertainty. Which leads one to conclude...

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