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    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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wanderero85us - 07:08am Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8561 of 8569)
Bush - the poster boy for the Peter Principle

Smirk wants to nuke the world, this incompetant @sshole should be impeached.

rshow55 - 07:18am Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8562 of 8569) 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.

No, he should be checked - - and people should learn, finally, some basic things about what it is to be a human being.

8500 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@93.nsWGaqcL2HZ.0@.f28e622/10026

If people check their work, think about the patterns human beings need for stable, just relationships - and keep at it we can take the incidence of agony and death from war way down - and be more comfortable in most of the ways that have to matter for human beings.

SECULAR REDEMPTION http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/1345

We need to understand much more than we do about human fallibility - and repression in every sense of the word - and the need to be careful.

If Bush was asked the proper questions - watched in the proper way - he could be a very great President. We could use a great President right now.

As it is - he's taking the US, and the world, into some serious and avoidable disasters.

He should be asked to do better, in ways that can work. Leaders of other nation states, if they had reasonable honesty and courage - could see that that happened.

wanderero85us - 07:31am Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8563 of 8569)
Bush - the poster boy for the Peter Principle

"If Bush was asked the proper questions - watched in the proper way - he could be a very great President."

No way, Bush is incompetant, incapable of rational thought, obsessed with pushing his radical RW agenda above all else.

He and his minions lie about and distort issues daily to "gain" some kind of political advantage. The RW press has unfortunately been complicate in covering up for this 2-bit @sshole, who should be impeached.

rshow55 - 07:42am Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8564 of 8569) 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.

A lot of people would have to be persuaded for that to happen.

If that persuasion could happen - before that persuasion could happen - Bush could find ways to be an excellent President.

He represents some folks who have made some messes- and people who make messes are often the best people to clean them up.

I've said some negative things about Bush - serious things. But this thread shows gisterme trying hard to do some good things, too. Things I respect. Is gisterme Bush, or close to Bush?

I think so. People should check.

rshow55 - 07:44am Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8565 of 8569) 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.

If people at the UN Security Council work as well, this round, as they worked last time they discussed Iraq - things could go very well - in the interest of all decent people in the world - very many of whom are Americans.

lchic - 11:49am Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8566 of 8569)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Iraq - Powell

... would use satellite photos and intercepted conversations among Iraqi officials to make his case that Iraq was pursuing weapons of mass destruction.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030204_328.html

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