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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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wanderero85us - 07:08am Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8561 of 8562)
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 8562)
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.MpZ6aXLv28d.740921@.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.

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