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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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fredmoore - 08:48am Jul 22, 2003 EST (# 13090 of 17697)

Gisterme,

Bravo Hercule!

PS

Give Condi our warmest regards and our best wishes for the 2020 'running'.

jorian319 - 09:22am Jul 22, 2003 EST (# 13091 of 17697)
day length increases 1 second every 500 days. -James "Idiot" Nienhuis

Gisterme,

What Fred said. Bravo.

I'm now convinced that Gisterme is indeed GWB. The evidence - he repeatedly mis-spelled "helicopter".

rshow55 - 10:41am Jul 22, 2003 EST (# 13092 of 17697)
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.

Gisterme , whatever else you may say about him, is an accomplished debater - deflecting what he can't deny - and "fencing" so as to avoid getting anything to closure.

13070 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1141800@.f28e622/14749

13071 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1141800@.f28e622/14750

13072 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1141800@.f28e622/14751 which ends:

Working on this thread, especially since February of this year, I have been making an assumption that people on the UN Security Council looked here from time to time. Those people know whether or not I was right or wrong.

I've also assumed that I was not alone in thinking that gisterme is Bush - for reasons expressed in 10063 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.RErUbPHeYTe.1141800@.f28e622/11608 .

"What did he know, and when did he know it?" is an interesting question.

The questions:

What did gisterme think and say, and when?

and

Is gisterme President Bush?

are coupled, and answerable, questions.

- - - -

They remain answerable questions - answerable by actually checking - after gisterme's last 16 (mostly evasive) postings.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, "I think he protests too loudly." http://www.handlebars.org/?a=article&articleid=174

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