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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 - 05:00am Feb 10, 2003 EST (# 8776 of 8784)
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Soyuz

Plans to send tourists into space have been frozen by Russia after the Columbia shuttle disaster left its Soyuz capsules as the only working link between Earth and the International Space Station.

Russia's Rosaviakosmos, the national aviation and space agency which sent two tourists into orbit to pad out its thinning budget, said its manned Soyuz rocket would not be wasted on commercial missions.

Unlike the U.S. shuttle, the Soyuz is not reusable and Russia says it has a limited supply of capsules. It takes two years to build a Soyuz.

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s778272.htm

almarst2002 - 05:04am Feb 10, 2003 EST (# 8777 of 8784)

"The victims of Saddam Hussain should also 'when possible' claim against the tyrannical actions of that retrograde leader."

As well as remaining native populations victims of colonization, Turkish genocid against Armenians, victims of two WW and post WWII Cold War repressions, particularely Indo-China wars and China and Indonesia opression, Latin-american Dictatorship, military junta in Greece, problems of North Irland, Chechnia, Attrocities during Revolutions starting with French, Napoleon, and all the way back to the Egiptian empire.

But, if you want to be credible, you can't selectively apply the judgement against one dictator or case of abuse while ignoring the others, some even more serious.

lchic - 05:13am Feb 10, 2003 EST (# 8778 of 8784)
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Smacking the-hip-pocket-nerve via class actions - is wanting tyrants to sit-up and take notice and bleed!

lchic - 05:14am Feb 10, 2003 EST (# 8779 of 8784)
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'A piece of PEACE?'

"Give us ten penneth!"

'Eat here? Or? Take away?'

© dR3

almarst2002 - 05:16am Feb 10, 2003 EST (# 8780 of 8784)

fredmoor - "thosands of Iraqis who ARE dying every year at the hands of a tyrant."

So, instead of lifting all but strictly military side of embargo and allowing the country to return to normal life, your solution seems to add thouthends more victims, future destroy the country, possibly ignite the internal ethnic conflict and re-colonise the Arab oil-rich nation at a peak of the growing world-wide crisis. And, if this plan does not work, we just say sorry and go back home accross Atlantic, in disgust of such a backward World.

lchic - 05:39am Feb 10, 2003 EST (# 8781 of 8784)
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BALI BOMBINGS - new info

http://abc.net.au/4corners/content/2003/transcripts/s780910.htm

http://abc.net.au/4corners/

almarst2002 - 05:52am Feb 10, 2003 EST (# 8782 of 8784)

Lawyers' group set to condemn enemy combatant policy Group also challenges government's increased spying power - http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/02/10/aba.enemy.combatants.ap/

Its better late then never.

lchic - 08:46am Feb 10, 2003 EST (# 8783 of 8784)
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Trouping through Europe - USA - dumps German bases

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/10/opinion/10SAFI.html

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