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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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bbbuck - 10:51pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6413 of 6423)
"You can't eat this, it's people, it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"

I done blu up my compuss last twosday.
Bery perceptive of you to knowtuss.

almarst2002 - 10:52pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6414 of 6423)

Common Myths in Iraq Coverage - http://www.fair.org/activism/iraq-myths.html

almarst2002 - 10:57pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6415 of 6423)

Why U.N. inspectors left Iraq--then and now - http://www.fair.org/extra/0210/inspectors.html

almarst2002 - 11:01pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6416 of 6423)

bbbuck 12/9/02 10:51pm

No need to explain. I could guess just by looking at your KCUBBB.

bbbuck - 11:16pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6417 of 6423)
"You can't eat this, it's people, it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"

He can post normally. Without bolding. Hmmmmm.
He must be trying to emphasize something, I guess.

bbbuck - 11:19pm Dec 9, 2002 EST (# 6418 of 6423)
"You can't eat this, it's people, it's people"-B....."What about the cherry pie?"

I'm watching the funniest movie ending ever devised.
The end of "Idiot's Delight". Catch it, if you can.

commondata - 05:30am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6419 of 6423)

rshow55 12/9/02 7:29pm

I counted 644 MPs, all listed here.

It'd probably be worth finding out the constituency address for each one rather than route everything through the House of Commons. I'm sure that'd be easy to do - it's all in the public domain somewhere.

...do you think some journalists might be interested enough to notice?

Maybe, maybe not, only one way of finding out. I'd certainly be interested in reading in the paper about someone with your background mailing all Members of Parliament about a trillion dollar mistake (and your security problem too).

rshow55 12/9/02 8:46pm - - - a key question is - could MP's, in actual fact - ask that key issues be checked? Could they be motivated to do so?

I believe they could. It sounds like the government has made up it's mind and the Tory party certainly has. But there are a lot of unhappy back benchers and I can't believe thinking people would divert half of our defense resources (£10 billion per year) into this boondoggle without a bit of debate and the odd Select Committee. Meanwhile, we marinade in the wrong kind of propaganda - Discussion paper points to job and safety benefits of US missile defence.

It wouldn't take too many straight questions - backed by enough force to demand answers - all on subjects in the open literature - to lay a great deal of muddle aside - and show that, in any reasonable military sense, MD can't work - even as a bluff.

Indeed, and you know which questions to ask. An editorialised version of a CD could spell out those question and arguments ... and counter arguments ... and counter counter arguments. Just a thought.

lunarchick - 06:59am Dec 10, 2002 EST (# 6420 of 6423)

^{Assuming that 'The Poster' is Johnson - who says he writes for the NYT but doesn't say he's a hack-propaganda-writer for the Bush Administration - then one might conclude that neither organisation has driven 'home' policies of 'pluralism' wrt their employees attitudes toward ESL speakers.}

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