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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 - 08:41pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8615 of 8638)
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"you can make a baby smile or laugh lots of times in an experiment but you can only make them cry once - then it's all over."

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993357

Into war is the cry not the smile, when warring-babies, talk!

almarst2002 - 08:47pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8616 of 8638)

First it was Reds, then drugs, then terror. So who have the US really been fighting in Colombia? http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,888610,00.html

lchic - 08:49pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8617 of 8638)
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Well done Alex your posts must be GOOD ... brought CRY-BABY BadBoyBuck out and onto the field of play!

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Interesting thought re use of 'clown' ... clowns through the childrens wards of hospitals lift the spirts and help recovery ...

Lets identify the clowns ... to see whose laughing ... Bush-Saddam duet

http://www.vex.net/~buff/sinatra/cgi/arch.cgi/Send_In_the_Clowns

almarst2002 - 08:51pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8618 of 8638)

Don't let the facts get in the way - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,889664,00.html

Given its history, US intelligence should come with a health warning

almarst2002 - 08:59pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8619 of 8638)

lchic,

This cry-baby won't smile unless he sees his daily meal of death and violence. Its being too long for him to wait for "smart" bombing footage. Apparently the beer, football, wrestling and the Holliwood's Rambos are not a good enough substitution for him.

lchic - 09:00pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8620 of 8638)
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ARAB CULTURE - SBSauDateline

http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/#

Saudi Arabia - Inside the Hidden Kingdom | After weeks of headlines about Iraq, the real war on terror may well be played out not in rogue nations, but in supposed allies like Saudi Arabia. US intelligence is paying close attention to its regional friend after revelations that terrorists, and more importantly terrorist funds, have been flooding out of the desert kingdom. Saudi Arabia usually shuns the international media, but Matthew Carney, with a government minder by his side, has been given access. He found a nation undergoing an identity crisis - between a hard-line religious hierarchy and, an emerging democracy movement, something previously unheard of in this secretive monarchy. View Transcript

The Arab Divide | In an interview overnight Saddam Hussein strongly rejected allegations that he possesses weapons of mass destruction. But early tomorrow morning, US Secretary of State Colin Powell will present what he calls 'a convincing case' that Hussein is lying. Powell's information may become a trigger for a US-led invasion, whether or not the UN accepts his evidence. While there's intense focus on divisions in the West to a looming war, Alan Hall has found that the Arab world is equally divided. View Transcript

Robert Fisk Interview | So what is the likelihood of an explosion of Arab feeling in response to an attack from the West, and are Arab nations in any position to present a credible alternative to Western plans? I spoke a short time ago to veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk.

http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/

Al Qaeda: Errors In Judgement

http://www.sbs.com.au/whatson/index.php3?id=146

http://www.sbs.com.au/sbs_front/index.html

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