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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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bbbuck - 09:02pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8621 of 8638)

Wow the guy can actually post normally.

No, lchic, I've seen this guy's slop before. Like your links I ignore almost all of it, and only attempt some psychological experiments to see if he has any explanation for his bizarre behavior.

almarst2002 - 09:12pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8622 of 8638)

bbbuck - 09:02pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8621 of 8621)

Keep in mind - I don't mind you ignoring my posts.

almarst2002 - 09:16pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8623 of 8638)

No casus belli? Invent one! February 5, analysis: As Colin Powell presents evidence to the UN to back the US case for war, Maggie O'Kane argues that the reasons Washington gave for the first Gulf war do not bear scrutiny. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,889418,00.html

The case for war with Iraq is full of holes. - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,888944,00.html

almarst2002 - 09:26pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8624 of 8638)

Iraq's Neighborhood Thick With U.S. Arms - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26335-2003Feb4.html

Speaking of proliferation...

almarst2002 - 09:37pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8625 of 8638)

" “There will not be a safe place in Baghdad,” boasts a senior Pentagon official."

The openly expressed intent of the planned attack is to shatter Iraq “physically, emotionally and psychologically,” consistent with American strategist Harlan Ullman’s racist theory of “Shock and Awe.” By this theory, the non-Caucasian survivors of attack from the skies called upon them by the Great White Masters of the World will climb out of their rubble to shake their heads in stunned admiration for the God-like capacities of the Great Men chosen to lead them into freedom. “Thank you,” they will say, “for saving us by destroying our homes and communities, destroying our primary health care system and denying clean water to our children.”

Iraq’s population, it should be recalled, is still reeling from an earlier American-led assault that laced parts of their country with cancer-causing Depleted Uranium and devastated basic civilian infrastructure, including water-treatment and electricity plants. The Iraqi people have been living and dying for more than a decade under the American-led regime of economic sanctions – an officially unmentionable “weapon of mass destruction” that particularly marks small children for passage to the hereafter.

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=2974

almarst2002 - 09:49pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8626 of 8638)

War For World Dominance - http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=2969

lchic - 09:55pm Feb 5, 2003 EST (# 8627 of 8638)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Ethics - Moscow - STANDARDS

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PARLIAMENT TO LAUNCH ETHICS INQUIRY

The Ethics Committee of the State Duma (lower house of the Russian parliament) is preparing to open a hearing on the Duma's deputy speaker, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Mr Zhirinovsky is accused of using offensive language in autumn of last year, while on a trip to Baghdad. Mr Zhirinovsky claims the tape to be a fake. It allegedly shows him in the company of some people berating the USA and attacking US President George W Bush.

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