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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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lchic - 05:30pm Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8041 of 8046)
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""People are talking. We ought to be a long way from impasse, or an inevitable war. (above)

A veteran of the Gulf War was talking on the radio today. He said at Nineteen he was at war. Today he's asking the question 'Why did George Bush as head of the CIA supply Saddam with the gas he used to kill his own people in Northern Iraq?'

He's leading a tour or 'axis of people', thousands of them, who are going into Iraq, who have an anti-war stance.

He says --- look at the BUSH role in Iraq meaning Iraq wouldn't be where it is today if it weren't for American Foreign Policy --- he also thought about AmForeignP post war and the situation in South America

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Gets right back to my point that the US Parliament is weak and ineffectual!

lchic - 05:35pm Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8042 of 8046)
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How come so many Americans --- in the land of the free --- wear threadbear prison-bar-stripped burkas and fear that if they move quickly or in a government unapproved direction they'll be stoned to death by the Bully-bar!?

How come many of 'the best' Americans --- those who speak up --- speak for soil that doesn't boast light rays from that 'statue of liberty' --- that do get the real attention of media --- that prefer an EU to a US venue! ???

Is LIBERTY an IMPRESSIONIST MIRAGE - a trick of light created from a palette box - in both Iraq and the USA?

lchic - 05:37pm Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8043 of 8046)
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How come so many Americans --- in the land of the free --- wear threadbear prison-bar-stripped burkas and fear that if they move quickly or in a government unapproved direction they'll be stoned to death by the Bully-bar!?

How come many of 'the best' Americans --- those who speak up --- speak from soil that doesn't boast light rays from that 'statue of liberty' --- that do get the real attention of media --- that prefer an EU to a US venue! ???

Is LIBERTY an IMPRESSIONIST MIRAGE - a trick of light created from a palette box - in both Iraq and the USA?

gisterme - 05:37pm Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8044 of 8046)

rshow55 - 09:44am Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8027...)

"...because the core problems in the Middle East involve sex and religion - in ways that have gone very badly..."

The terrorists are trying to make us and particularly the adherants of Isalm believe the core problem is religion. They are trying to create an issue where none has existed for hundreds of years. You seem to be buying the Al Quida propaganda it hook line and sinker. As an infidel (by their definition) I find if quite amazing that you would do so, Robert.

The issue in Iraq is not sex or religion and you should know it. In my view, it's not even really Saddam's refusal to come clean about his WMD. It's about the fact that Saddam, even though his government signed a truce in 1991, has continued to prepare for vengance on the US and Europe. He was losing the war so he did what he had to do back then to save his ass and gain time.

I believe that we'll soon find that Saddam has directly supported Al Qaida from its beginning and used Iraqi intelligence resoureces to help them pick targets including the World Trade Center. I believe we may also find that there are Iraqi links to the first WTC bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing. Saddam has never really quit fighting since 1991...he's just changed his tactics. It looks to me like his jig is about up...of course he's had almost twelve years to prepare so we'll have to absorb the worst he can do, terrible as that may be, in order to get rid of him once and for all.

I'm just sorry that the UN was too spineless to give the 1991 coalition authority to delete Saddam back then. We're paying and will be paying the price for that lack of foresight for some time to come.

Oh, by the way, Robert, for the umpteenth time, I have nothing to do with the Bush administration or the US government other than being a tax payer and a voter. Since you've repeatedly been given that direct and truthful fact I can only assume that you make such claims for my importance just to sustain the inflation level of your own ego. You'd probably dry up and blow away if you ever realized just how unimportant everything you've tried to do for the last few years has been.

I sincerely hope you can find something more productive to do in the future.

lchic - 05:43pm Jan 25, 2003 EST (# 8045 of 8046)
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