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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    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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lchic - 01:46am Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8574 of 8584)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Wasn't that a ref to the Pres of the US ...

'incompetant'

breaking down to

in-com-pet-ant

so he's alluding to the fact that the Pres is Pres of an army of pet ants with income (independent means) ... in fact he's the Emperor of the Ants ... and army-ants just march on through destroying and 'taking' everything before them ...

... and Pres wants to destroy and 'take' Saddam ... throw him on the BBQ ... roast him on the spit ... and gobble the guy up ... yummy!

Wanderer085us knew exactly what HE meant!

The Biology of Social Predation ... the pic must be Bush, see also battle plan of attack ... "Imagine being attacked by a pack of 50,000 wolves. That's how an insect that finds itself in the path of a colony of army ants feels. These tiny soldiers are voracious predators" ... http://www.antcolony.org/Army_ants.htm

lchic - 01:52am Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8575 of 8584)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/iraq/

lchic - 03:48am Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8576 of 8584)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Jacques Chirac delivered a blunt warning

War is the worst solution, warns Chirac

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,888981,00.html

rshow55 - 07:36am Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8577 of 8584) 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.

Powell to Charge Iraq Is Shifting Its Illegal Arms to Foil Inspectors By JULIA PRESTON with STEVEN R. WEISMAN http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/05/international/middleeast/05IRAQ.html

ends:

"Mr. Hussein, in an interview in Baghdad with a British Socialist politician, Tony Benn, for British television's Channel Four news, said, "There is only one truth, and therefore I tell you as I have said on many occasions before, that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction."

"The interview brought a curt response from Mr. Powell, who was walking to his car at the United Nations mission.

"Prove it," he said.

Questions of fact, and correct argument - are big scale matters of life and death - and though some things are going well - international discussion is occurring at a high level - some things have gone very, very wrong. Given some of the reasonable and accomodating things said by Iraq, by N. Korea, and by the United States - it seems surreal that conflict should seem so close - even so inevitable - in both cases now. Things are going "surprisingly" wrong. Is this accidental - or something that can be understood, and fixed?

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