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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 - 02:49pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8932 of 8948)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

All the 'regulars' away ....

"Where's the party?"

lchic - 02:57pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8933 of 8948)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Had the focus regarding Saddam Hussain and other long term 'stayers' of political power and repression been

H U M A N - R I G H T S

then the rallys on the streets might have looked and been quite different

Bush-Father took the Gulf War right into the very living rooms of the world giving a miss by miss misile score card .... much fabricated.

Europe has seen the Yugoslavia mess and taken in the refugees .... some of whom have taken life in EuroCities to new lows with prostitution-slave rackets, theft and kidnapping-extortion belief systems ... totally anathema to 'Old Europe'.

Modern Media has shown the failure of USA policy wrt Palestine and the minute by minute DEATH administered by 'The Butcher'.

Most modern people work within a system of process and know that process improvement does happen via discovering the problem(s) and implementing solutions via discussion and talk and choices that move to improve the process.

A focus on human rights and discussion of 'the problem' moving to improvement of process via removal of corrupt long-stay leaderships has to be the focus.

mazza9 - 02:59pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8934 of 8948)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

bbbuck:

Robert and Lchic's blather goes on for pages. It's all off point and self centered. I'd rather receive, "This message not displayed because lchic is on your Ignore Posts list. To change your Ignore Posts list go to Preferences.)"

I can skip over 10 meaningless posting per page and find the jewels of discussion with you and other interested individuals.

WRCooper actually met with Robert and I'm sure was totally frustrated with the posts that Robert made after the meeing. I called and spoke with Robert for 3 hours. I opened up and visited my personal beliefs and he "spit in my face!"

Robert is one sick cookie and has been blocked from this forum in the past! The NYTimes has relaxed its moderation efforts and Robert, like a lamprey, has fastened himself to this forum and sucked the life out of it. Maybe you should block them and we can talk without their vicious attacks aimed at us because we're administration personages, (I'm George Wilson, Condi Rice and who knows what else in that fevered brow of robert and lchic!)

lchic - 03:03pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8935 of 8948)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Tony Blair has taken the MORAL highground.

GOOD!

Can a focus be placed on the Whitehouse to bring out their MORAL component wrt Iraq

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The bottom line for regular folk throughout the world is

E M P A T H Y

people think -- what if 'our family unit' was in the line of fire in Iraq

how would 'our family unit' think and feel and

S U F F E R

additionally Iraq has survived in a limited fashion for a length of time that is double that of WWII - a dozen years

and throughout this time many have not had access to basic food and medical help

lchic - 03:06pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8936 of 8948)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

'The Poster' alias CIA-Admin puppet-voice ... is making a move to SPLIT Showalter-Riley

good try

The Poster rarely has content - as seen yet again!

lchic - 03:10pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8937 of 8948)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

A question to ask is

has Bush m-ucked-up big time

and if-so

how-so

why-so

The when-so has to be now-so

So is Bush set to unilaterally move on Iraq NOW and disarm Iraq

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British Protesters listed their own civil peacetime MASLOW-NEEDS wrt to provision of staff for the professions of Nursing/Teaching/Policing the UK

lchic - 03:13pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8938 of 8948)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Tony BENN has made the point that the focus by the USA should have been on ALL the horrid little dictators of the world -- not just Iraq

He's talking UN and HUMAN RIGHTS

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