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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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almarst2002 - 10:52am Dec 16, 2002 EST (# 6737 of 6748)

Iraq urged the United Nations to stop an “undeclared war” waged by US and British warplanes as Iraqi air defense facilities were bombed for the second straight day yesterday. - http://english.pravda.ru/world/2002/12/16/40819.html

Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, in a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, said allied planes based in neighboring Kuwait had violated Iraqi airspace on 1,141 occasions between Nov. 9 and Dec. 6.

“These daily violations...facilitated by the government of Kuwait, and the barbaric bombing of Iraq’s cities and villages, have reached the level of an undeclared war,” Sabri wrote. “The United Nations must take the necessary steps in line with the (UN) charter to halt the aggression.”

An Iraqi military spokesman said the planes had struck civilian installations in the southern provinces of Dhi Qar and Wasit. Iraqi anti-aircraft and missile batteries fired back.

lunarchick - 10:53am Dec 16, 2002 EST (# 6738 of 6748)

Iraqis plan post Saddam - London

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,861125,00.html

lunarchick - 10:55am Dec 16, 2002 EST (# 6739 of 6748)

Media USA - getting US-public to war

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,861126,00.html

lunarchick - 11:00am Dec 16, 2002 EST (# 6740 of 6748)

chechnya | Salman Raduyev | dead

http://www.guardian.co.uk/chechnya/Story/0,2763,860802,00.html

lunarchick - 11:02am Dec 16, 2002 EST (# 6741 of 6748)

Iraq - All reason is about to be gassed, poxed and nuked
This week the countdown to war on Iraq may begin in earnest

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,860795,00.html

lunarchick - 11:06am Dec 16, 2002 EST (# 6742 of 6748)

Propaganda spin

"" ... George Tenet, Woodward writes, "believed a good form of deterrence was to try to give the terrorists the idea that the US was aware of things being planned - since they didn't know what the US knew or didn't know, it was a potential deterrent to find a way to 'tell them we know'."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,860761,00.html

rshow55 - 11:06am Dec 16, 2002 EST (# 6743 of 6748)
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.

Maybe some "adventurism" is necessary. Casey thought so. As it happens - I think so, too.

My question is, in the real world, as it is - what's the best we can do?

Better than we're doing now.

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