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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 - 11:53am Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8567 of 8576)
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Security Council

http://www.un.org/Overview/Organs/sc.html

Under the Charter, all Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council.

While other organs of the United Nations make recommendations to Governments, the Council alone has the power to take decisions which Member States are obligated under the Charter to carry out.

lchic - 12:03pm Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8568 of 8576)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

SAf > mission > Iraq

""The South African government, which chairs the Non-Aligned Movement and the new African Union, is concerned about the negative impact war might have on developing countries, especially a fear that their sovereign boundaries will no longer be respected.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,888400,00.html

lchic - 12:11pm Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8569 of 8576)
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Checking Fact

Texas -- Briton due to die today seeks DNA test

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,888389,00.html

chnm_info - 03:23pm Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8570 of 8576)

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Weapons of mass destruction have become an increasingly prominent issue in recent months, discussed and debated within the United States and around the world. This is not the first time they have been a concern, however. More than one generation of Americans lived through the nuclear age of the arms race with the Soviet Union, an era that stretched from the 1950s to the 1990s. If you lived through this period, please record your recollections and reflections with ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History Online (http://echo.gmu.edu/), a project of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

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almarst2002 - 09:11pm Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8571 of 8576)

Richard Perle - France 'no longer ally' - http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030204-031831-1626r

How long will it take before Washington insist on "regime change" in Paris?;)

almarst2002 - 10:06pm Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8572 of 8576)

Kosovo: Chaos - http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/03/42943.html

Horrendous abuses of human rights by Albanians Albanian gangs are causing havoc in Kosovo to such an extent that the UNO has called for the protection of the minority Serb population to be stepped up

mazza9 - 10:29pm Feb 4, 2003 EST (# 8573 of 8576)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Wanderer085us is incompetant, incapable of rational thought, obsessed with pushing his radical agenda above all else.

He and his minions lie about and distort issues daily. This 2-bit @sshole, who should be defenestrated!

And he can't even spell incompetent!!!

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