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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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rshow55 - 04:18pm Oct 22, 2002 EST (# 5116 of 5119)
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.

lchic 10/22/02 11:39am There's reason to check a lot of things -- and the fact that the question of who gassed the Kurds is still in doubt gives one more reason - among many compelling ones - why we need to get a lot of things checked. Truth matters. lchic 10/22/02 11:45am

There are a lot of things to check about missile defense - and easy ways of checking them - except that, too often, it seems to be against the rules to check anything to closure if anybody in power objects. "Technical discussion has been pretty dense so far;" rshow55 3/2/02 11:52am

rshow55 - 04:21pm Oct 22, 2002 EST (# 5117 of 5119)
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.

Russia Rejects New Iraq Resolution Filed at 12:52 p.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq-World-Reax.html

"MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia rejected the new U.S. draft resolution on Iraq Tuesday, dealing a sharp blow to American efforts to gain U.N. backing for the automatic use of force if weapons inspectors are thwarted by Baghdad.

"Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov's statement said the U.S. document failed to meet Russian criteria.

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``The American draft resolution...does not answer the criteria which the Russian side laid out earlier and which it confirms today,'' Ivanov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.

"Ivanov made the statement several hours after meeting with Hans Blix, the chief U.N. weapons inspector.

"Ivanov made his comments after separate meetings with State Department Undersecretary John Bolton as well as with Blix.

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"China ``will take seriously'' any measure supporting U.N. weapons inspections and leading to a peaceful settlement of the standoff between Iraq and the United States, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said at a regularly scheduled briefing.

"However, he added: ``We have always held that the U.N. weapons inspectors should return to Iraq as soon as possible and the Security Council should consider its next move according to the result of the inspection.''

"French President Jacques Chirac did not react directly to the draft but suggested the French were not close to supporting it.

``We have our own appreciation of things, and we tell (the United States) that,'' Chirac said, even if ``we don't say it in an aggressive way.'' He spoke to reporters after a meeting with Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen whose country holds the rotating European Union presidency.

"Some countries, including the United States and Great Britain, have said that Iraq has made strides in developing weapons of mass destruction that pose a grave threat to mankind.

How is that threat to mankind greater - or different in kind, from a number of other threats set out in detail in the following paper?

CNS Occasional Papers: #3 Nonproliferation Regimes At Risk
CHALLENGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO NONPROLIFERATION REGIMES by Michael Barletta and Amin Tarzi

"The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and other challenges to international nonproliferation regimes emerging from the Middle East have global as well as regional consequences. .....

http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/opapers/op3/bartar.htm

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