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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,
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rshow55
- 11:46am Jan 31, 2003 EST (#
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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.
Cooper we disagree on a good deal - I'll be meeting with
you tomorrow, if you show up - and right now, I'm posting
this.
Blix Says He Saw Nothing to Prompt a War By JUDITH
MILLER and JULIA PRESTON http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/international/middleeast/31BLIX.html
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 30 — Days after
delivering a broadly negative report on Iraq's cooperation
with international inspectors, Hans Blix on Wednesday
challenged several of the Bush administration's assertions
about Iraqi cheating and the notion that time was running
out for disarming Iraq through peaceful means.
It makes sense to me to reconsider something of where we've
been. and I feel like reposting MD5117 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?9@93.d6iTabg413V.131648@.f28e622/6438
rshow55 - 04:22pm Oct 22, 2002 EST (# 5117
If you take Iraq at its word, subject to checking that if
offers - - we are a long way from a justification for war:
Iraq States Its Case by MOHAMMED ALDOURI http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/17/opinion/17ALDO.html
"After so many years of fear from war, the
threat of war and suffering, the people of Iraq and their
government in Baghdad are eager for peace. We have no
intention of attacking anyone, now or in the future, with
weapons of any kind. If we are attacked, we will surely
defend ourselves with all means possible. But bear in mind
that we have no nuclear or biological or chemical weapons,
and we have no intention of acquiring them.
"We are not asking the people of the United
States or of any member state of the United Nations to trust
in our word, but to send the weapons inspectors to our
country to look wherever they wish unconditionally.
They're saying "you don't have to trust us - - you can
check us." We shouldn't be reluctant to do that - and to
remember how many different ways there are to check and
cross-check. If the UN gets something like active cooperation
from Iraq - there may be some hidden residual capacities - but
there won't be much - and Iraq will not be in a good position
to use anything it has left in any militarily sane way.
Iraq has made major concessions - both moral and practical
- in its amnesty.
Iraq Announces Amnesty for Its Prisoners http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq.html
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- "The Iraqi government
announced an amnesty Sunday for all Iraqi prisoners . . "
One need not trust Saddam, nor like him, to think that
Hussein and Mobs Virtually Empty Iraq's Prisons By JOHN
F. BURNS http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/21/international/middleeast/21IRAQ.html
and Abrupt Amnesty at Iraqi Prisons: A Joy for Many, Grief
for Some By JOHN F. BURNS http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/22/international/middleeast/22PRIS.html
( Images of Sudden Freedom and Frenzy ) reports an act
of great consequence.
If Iraq can effectively reintegrate those prisoners, it
will show a distinct "regime change" in the ways that matter
to many, many people.
The Saddam who empties prisons is taking some steps away
from some of the bad behavior reported on the 18th http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/18/arts/television/18SADD.html
in
UNDERSTANDING IRAQ. Carol Williams, executive
producer; Jon Schriber, senior producer; produced by NBC News
Productions and the Discovery Channel; Forrest Sawyer,
correspondent.
and
THE REAL SADDAM. Ann Derry, executive producer; Ken
Levis, producer; co-produced by the Discovery Channel and New
York Times Television.
. . .
Iraq has offered to be checked and tested. It has
implemented wrenching, risky changes that stress the regime.
It says it wants peace, and is more open to checking
than the United States is.
Most of the world wants to give Iraq a chance - and wants
that without being especially tolerant of past Iraqi behavior.
If under these circumstances - the United States fails to
find a way to act in concert with
rshow55
- 11:47am Jan 31, 2003 EST (#
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"rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for
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If under these circumstances - the United States fails to
find a way to act in concert with the United Nations - what
will this mean for international relations?
International law, and patterns of international order, are
being renegotiated - - and it is high time.
But we want to find ways to negotiate and
enforce patterns of behavior better than those of the
past. And empathy is a central issue.
The US has some horrors it is responsible for, as well.
Including many in high places.
Is it clear that Kissinger is a better fellow than
Saddam - or does that matter, since he's one of "us?"
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