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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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lunarchick - 12:15pm Nov 16, 2002 EST (# 5822 of 5911)

repost Saddam/Libya

'Pity there isn't a world leader who has sufficient clout to talk to Saddam, encourage him to pick up his bank books, trinkets etc .... and move to the Old Timer's Elephants Graveyard in Libya - take tea with Idi Amin, so to speak.' lchic 10/2/02 2:14pm

rshow55 - 12:18pm Nov 16, 2002 EST (# 5823 of 5911)
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.

mazza9 11/16/02 12:13pm . . . international law is in the process of being renegotiated - - and there are plenty of things to be worked out. Maybe there's progress.

Plenty of room for it.

lunarchick - 12:19pm Nov 16, 2002 EST (# 5824 of 5911)

On NK Japanese(kidnap victims) ... haven't we read that all have permission to go to Jpn with families .... Jpn withholding food and cash ... until this happens!

rshow55 - 12:25pm Nov 16, 2002 EST (# 5825 of 5911)
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.

lunarchick 11/16/02 12:15pm ... lunarchick 11/16/02 12:15pm
lunarchick 11/16/02 12:15pm ... lunarchick 11/16/02 12:15pm

Lunarchick comes up with a lot of good stuff !

mazza9 - 12:27pm Nov 16, 2002 EST (# 5826 of 5911)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Robert:

You'll get NO credit. I reserve that right since I am the National Sec....! Oops, to quote my close friend Hagrid, "I shouldn't have said that!"

lunarchick - 12:27pm Nov 16, 2002 EST (# 5827 of 5911)

Libya - There's a welcome on the mat ....

Despite the country's demonisation in Western mass media, most travellers who have visited Libya report having a grand old time. The Libyan people enjoy a well-earned reputation for kindness and hospitality toward visitors ...
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/africa/libya/

lunarchick - 12:29pm Nov 16, 2002 EST (# 5828 of 5911)

Note my post re Saddam-Libya was October2 ... after which the Iraqi delegation went thru :)

lunarchick - 12:33pm Nov 16, 2002 EST (# 5829 of 5911)

http://search.lonelyplanet.com/query.html?rq=0&col=full&qt=iraq

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