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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 - 10:27am Nov 15, 2002 EST (# 5793 of 5800)
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.

If Iraq was faking disarmament - this would be an impossibly awkward enterprise.

If Iraq was complying, in the spirit expressed in b Iraq States Its Case by MOHAMMED ALDOURI http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/opinion/17ALDO.html - - this would be a gracious, and entirely workable enterprise.

Countries and firms who wanted to do business with Iraq could organize it - without direct or in any way negotiatable or enforcable costs on Iraq - in a manner common in status exchanges - - and this might be both a gracious and expeditions way to get it done -- though the leadership in Iraq could judge this best - and knows what grace and honor are to Iraqis and to the people Iraqis care about.

rshow55 - 10:29am Nov 15, 2002 EST (# 5794 of 5800)
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.

If this were done, and Iraq was "playing it straight" in ways that could be explained to the people staffing negotiations at the UN Security Council - - Iraq would be safe from invasion - though some Americans might wish otherwise.

Many Americans would be relieved, and would wish Iraq well - if disarmament occurred.

They wouldn't be too disappointed for it to happen politely - though some might have to adjust to the idea of dealing with Iraqis as human beings. Most would not have difficulty with that idea.

rshow55 - 10:49am Nov 15, 2002 EST (# 5795 of 5800)
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.

Saddam, if he wanted to, and had made the decision to honor the language in Iraq States Its Case by MOHAMMED ALDOURI http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/opinion/17ALDO.htm - - - honor it fully - in spirit as well as in letter --- could get this organized, and organized well, in a couple of careful hours of work.

He could also solve the problems I have - not directly - but through contacts of his - asking someone honorable, but interested - to make an honorable phone call or two in my behalf. More about that in a bit. I have to think carefully about my own defensive needs.

rshow55 - 11:20am Nov 15, 2002 EST (# 5796 of 5800)
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.

4365 rshow55 9/18/02 9:26am - - has good references, from my own personal point of view - and refers to a lawyer who could, if he would - help me a lot.

If I had Scott Turow working as my lawyer - with the money he'd need to feel right doing it - and enough for private detectives to run facts down --a lot, it seems to me - could be sorted out gracefully, neatly, in the interest of those I care about - and the United States.

Maybe that's too much to hope for.

But, while considering my own needs, I'm thinking about some things Turow has said - and some things I know he can do.

almarst2002 - 02:53pm Nov 15, 2002 EST (# 5797 of 5800)

"Cheney was beyond hell-bent for action against Saddam. It was as if nothing else existed." (p. 346) - http://www.drudgereport.com/wood.htm

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