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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    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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almarst2002 - 08:25pm Dec 12, 2002 EST (# 6559 of 6575)

commondata 12/12/02 5:21pm - "the people responsible for those decisions should be tried as murderers."

Exactly.

Unfortunatly, they are the same who write the law, payes the jusiciary salary and maintains the very powerful propaganda machine.

rshow55 - 08:34pm Dec 12, 2002 EST (# 6560 of 6575) 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.

almarst2002 12/12/02 8:25pm . . . Is it so exact as that?

I'm signing off now - but I think the anger level is excessive.

If Iraq does not have weapons of mass destruction - - there are some very interesting questions about communication and human function at play - where indignation can only be a part of the response.

Right now, if Saddam has really done what he claims - - then his regime is absolutely safe - if he's half-way competent - - as he often is.

If Saddam is hiding weapons, and lying about it - - I'm not convinced, myself, that war is necessarily avoidable - unless the disarmament does happen.

almarst2002 - 08:39pm Dec 12, 2002 EST (# 6561 of 6575)

"If Bin Laden and his people believe"

Interestingly, we don't know exactly what are their believes. We don't know what are their causes.

The Western media (and particularely here in US) did not bother going beiong the Government's slogans. And this "freedom loving" country did not rise in indignation when Al-Jasira's office was bombed. Or, the Serbian TV station. Do they really care to know? It seems not really. As long as it is safe to watch the "smart" bombs hitting their targets before laughing audience of W.H reporters on their TVs. Just like this mazzas' F105 pilot marveling from the sky on this beutiful planet. The rule is - those images should not distruct audience from the following commercial to by the new model of SUV.

lunarchick - 10:26pm Dec 12, 2002 EST (# 6562 of 6575)

The claim has fuelled concerns that Al Qaeda might be in possession of the deadly nerve agent VX. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2002/12/item20021213071716_1.htm

Bali - Aussie - JI

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2002/12/item20021213001654_1.htm

lunarchick - 10:41pm Dec 12, 2002 EST (# 6563 of 6575)

A gritty, taboo-breaking cinematic account of life in a women's prison following Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution has been pulled off the screens in several Iranian cities.

The state news agency IRNA said cinemas in the cities of Qom, Isfahan, Shiraz and Karaj had been ordered to stop showing The Women's Prison, by female director Manijeh Hekmat, following protests from clerics and hardline religious groups. ..... http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s746255.htm

almarst2002 - 10:48pm Dec 12, 2002 EST (# 6564 of 6575)

lunarchick 12/12/02 10:41pm

As for me, I am by far more interested to see the conditions in Guantanamo in 2002.

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