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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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almarst2002 - 05:58pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8963 of 8972)

At the end of the day, there are lots of other problems in the words besides Iraq. If the USA has to face all those other problems alone, the story will have a very sad ending. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2003/02/13/43379.html

mazza9 - 07:00pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8964 of 8972)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Are you referring to his web site at the University of Wisconsin? I have a nephew-in-law and niece at U of Wisc. they are both too smart to run around with the likes of Robert!

bbbuck - 07:16pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8965 of 8972)

He's got some showalter.net site that apparently has exact replicas of his posts, here.

I'm sensing some hostility from you concerning rshow55. I can relate. Not towards rshow55, mind you, but when I first started posting I had some run ins with some posters.

The one thing I learned is you can't outlast these guys. You just can't. I usually just go away.

University of Wisconsin. Cool.

What's your location Mazza9?

Have a good day.

rshow55 - 08:25pm Feb 15, 2003 EST (# 8966 of 8972)
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.

U.S., Britain Reworking Iraq Resolution By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 6:50 p.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-UN-Iraq.html

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Rattled by an outpouring of anti-war sentiment, the United States and Britain began reworking a draft resolution Saturday to authorize force against Saddam Hussein.

" Diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the final product may be a softer text that does not explicitly call for war.

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They had some things to be rattled about:

One million. And still they came -- Euan Ferguson reports on a historic peace march whose massive turnout surpassed the organisers' wildest expectations and Tony Blair's worst fears

Sunday February 16, 2003 The Observer http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,896511,00.html

'Are there any more coming, then?'

There have been dafter questions, but not many. At 1.10 yesterday afternoon, Mike Wiseman from Newcastle upon Tyne placed his accordion carefully on the ground below Hyde Park's gates and rubbed cold hands together. Two elderly women, hand in hand in furs, passed through, still humming the dying notes from his 'Give Peace A Chance'. They were, had he known it, early, part of a tiny crowd straggling into Hyde Park before the march proper.

Half a mile away, round the corner in Piccadilly, the ground shook. An ocean, a perfect storm of people. Banners, a bobbing cherry-blossom of banners, covered every inch back to the Circus - and for miles beyond, south to the river, north to Euston.

UK's biggest peace rally Simon Jeffery and agencies Saturday February 15, 2003 http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,896475,00.html

London today became the scene for what appears to be the biggest public rally in British history as millions gathered across the world to protest at the prospect of a war in Iraq.

1.5m people demonstrating in London, organisers claim. Voices from the march http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,896334,00.html

Audio: Sarah Left on the march http://stream.guardian.co.uk/:7080/ramgen/sys-audio/Guardian/audio/2003/02/15/left.ra

Audio: Jesse Jackson's address http://stream.guardian.co.uk/:7080/ramgen/sys-audio/Guardian/audio/2003/02/15/jackson.ra

What the speakers said http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,896437,00.html

Protests in Europe and Africa http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,896277,00.html

Protests in Asia and Australasia http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,896357,00.html

Special report: anti-war movement http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/0,12809,879311,00.html

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