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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 - 09:52am Sep 22, 2002 EST (# 4480 of 4496)

Iraq (MP UK) Don't kill innocents!

Ms Short said: "We cannot have another Gulf war. We cannot have the people of Iraq suffering again. They have suffered too much. That would be wrong."

Her remarks follow those of Robin Cook, Leader of the Commons, who warned Tony Blair not to back unilateral US military action.

Mr Blair's attempts to build a consensus within the Commons will be further frustrated by the publication of an inconclusive dossier of evidence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Government insiders admit the document will neither link Saddam Hussein's regime to al-Qa'ida and the 11 September terror attacks nor prove that he has a nuclear bomb. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=335402

lchic - 04:54am Sep 23, 2002 EST (# 4481 of 4496)

"" A man who never met a crocodile he didn't want to wrestle to the ground ""

How would Steve go if he determined to tame some of the world's old Salties - political leaders

Steve knows 'how they are wired'
Steve knows how they 'react'
Steve knows how to trap and capture them



http://www.swalks.com/chase.html
http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/tows_2002/tows_past_20020708.jhtml
http://www.mgm.com/crocodilehunter/home.html

lchic - 07:38am Sep 23, 2002 EST (# 4482 of 4496)

Tony Blair is today bracing for a cabinet clash over backing for a military strike against Iraq. Ministers were meeting ahead of the publication tomorrow of the government's dossier http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,797270,00.html

lchic - 07:47am Sep 23, 2002 EST (# 4483 of 4496)

Tempers

Tantrums

Toogood

"" ... apparently furious at having been denied a cash refund for ... charged with stealing ... ""

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,797004,00.html

Whose for war?

Who's for smashing him?

Is the USA (once again) playing out it's Toogood ?

lchic - 08:50am Sep 23, 2002 EST (# 4484 of 4496)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/

If US military and political leaders planning for war could have heard them, it might have given them cause to pause. The crowd echoed sentiments that can be heard all over Baghdad: they will fight any US invasion street by street, using any weapons they have at their disposal.

This is the dilemma facing military planners and their political masters in Washington and London. Will the 10 million-strong population of Baghdad fight, exacting a heavy toll on American soldiers trying to enter their sprawling city, or will the residents, desperate for regime change after 20 years of totalitarian rule, stay indoors, silently grateful for the arrival of the Americans?

Interviews throughout Baghdad, from the slums to the capital's richest streets, from shoddy marketplaces to the football stadium, reveal ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,797101,00.html

lchic - 05:22pm Sep 23, 2002 EST (# 4485 of 4496)

GU Special Report - links - Iraq

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/0,11538,637069,00.html

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