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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 - 02:43pm Jan 22, 2003 EST (# 7913 of 7921)

Russian source: US 'will attack Iraq next month'

A Russian source today claimed to have information that the US plans to launch an attack on Iraq within the next month. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,879960,00.html

almarst2002 - 02:48pm Jan 22, 2003 EST (# 7914 of 7921)

Here they go again, The Yanks in their armoured parade Chanting their ballads of joy As they gallop across the big world Praising America's God. The gutters are clogged with the dead The ones who couldn't join in The others refusing to sing The ones who are losing their voice The ones who've forgotten the tune.

The riders have whips which cut. Your head rolls onto the sand Your head is a pool in the dirt Your head is a stain in the dust Your eyes have gone out and your nose Sniffs only the pong of the dead And all the dead air is alive With the smell of America's God.

© Harold Pinter, January 2003

almarst2002 - 03:04pm Jan 22, 2003 EST (# 7915 of 7921)

Here they go again,

The Yanks in their armoured parade

Chanting their ballads of joy

As they gallop across the big world

Praising America's God.

The gutters are clogged with the dead

The ones who couldn't join in

The others refusing to sing

The ones who are losing their voice

The ones who've forgotten the tune.

The riders have whips which cut.

Your head rolls onto the sand

Your head is a pool in the dirt

Your head is a stain in the dust

Your eyes have gone out and your nose

Sniffs only the pong of the dead

And all the dead air is alive

With the smell of America's God.

© Harold Pinter, January 2003

almarst2002 - 05:06pm Jan 22, 2003 EST (# 7916 of 7921)

THE UNITED STATES AND THE IRAN-IRAQ WAR - http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/ShalomIranIraq.html

"Less than four percent of U.S. oil consumption comes from the Gulf, but, according to the official argument, Western Europe and Japan are extremely dependent on Gulf oil and hence if the region fell into the hands of a hostile power, U.S. allies could be brought to their knees, and U.S. security would be fundamentally and irreparably compromised. If one examines the history of U.S. policy in the Gulf, however, protecting the oil interests of Western Europe and Japan never seemed to be one of Washington's foremost goals."

almarst2002 - 05:25pm Jan 22, 2003 EST (# 7917 of 7921)

Is President Bush's "axis of evil" campaign about to be undermined in his own backyard? A proposed uranium enrichment facility planned in Hartsville, Tenn. (pop. 2,395) raises just that question. One of the plant's principal backers is URENCO, a European consortium linked to leaks of enrichment technology to, yes, Iran, Iraq, and North Korea — as well as to Pakistan. - http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,410102,00.html

IMMORALITY IS NOT ALWAYS WITHOUT A PRICE.

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