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    Missile Defense

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 - 06:16pm Oct 28, 2002 EST (# 5357 of 5358) Delete Message
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.

Gisterme , for you to take the position you take in gisterme 10/28/02 3:28pm , after so much time, and so many postings establishing working conventions on this forum - -you have to have thought a long time.

You've made many postings according to the conventions - stated and unstated - of this thread. You've worked hard on it since May 2, 20001 - - - here are references and links to 700 of your postings prior to June 17th, 2002.

rshow55 6/17/02 7:09am ... rshow55 6/17/02 7:09am
rshow55 6/17/02 7:11am ... rshow55 6/17/02 7:12am
rshow55 6/17/02 7:12am ... rshow55 6/17/02 7:13am
rshow55 6/17/02 7:14am ... rshow55 6/17/02 7:14am
rshow55 6/17/02 7:14am ... rshow55 6/17/02 7:15am
rshow55 6/17/02 7:16am ... rshow55 6/17/02 7:16am
rshow55 6/17/02 7:17am ... rshow55 6/17/02 7:18am
rshow55 6/17/02 7:18am ... rshow55 6/17/02 7:19am
rshow55 6/17/02 7:20am ...

There have been many since.

I'm not mystified, exactly, but amazed. The dialog on this forum has had much to do with missile defense - and my postings do as well - but the discussion has ranged much farther afield - with a great deal of effort on your part, as well as mine.

You asked a while back how I came to be that slow - - - well the answer is that I'm trying to do things Bill Casey would approve of - doing my little bit to get the United States out of a dangerous mess, as gracefully as I can.

This thread isn't a court of law - but discussions about courts of law repeat here frequently - - because a major purpose of this thread - which I've been explicit about, and you've known about, is analogous to pretrial discovery .

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