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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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mazza9 - 06:58pm Sep 27, 2002 EST (# 4602 of 17697)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

Or how about this one. Iraq has used chemical weapons, (oops gave the answer away!)in the past against its enemies. Al Quida sources have stated that Iraq has given chemcial weapon information/training to Al Quida terrorists. Can you connect the Dots...(not the movie candy this time)? Why don't you go back to your whining about "Bill Casey and the CIA that done you wrong?"

lchic - 12:04am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4603 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

There are people - alive over the past twenty years - suffering the effects of chemical weapons:

http://www.oneworld.net/guides/cbweapons/front.shtml

''After the two bombings of the town, that day, children and grown up women and men started to vomit blood,'' the statement said.

It said a number of pregnant women in the affected region have suffered miscarriages, while cattle, sheep, goats and birds have been dying in large numbers.

lchic - 12:24am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4604 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Clinton was advised - letter April 1997 - that 'Top Brass' USA forces were against Chemical Weapons ... Colin Powell a signature.

lchic - 01:20am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4605 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

A gem of a contribution to today's forum ran thus

Even Enstein, while not as busy as you mazza presumably are, still found it useful to think ...

Then swim in the big tank http://www.nira.go.jp/ice/tt-info/nwdtt99/

Everone excepting prioners ... oOOOps .. prisoners see Rule 10 - be forgiving of other peoples mistakes

lchic - 02:19am Sep 28, 2002 EST (# 4606 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Double Entry Book-Keeping isn't the new kid on the block, it's 1000 years old!

"" Lawyers for the General Accounting Office and Vice President Dick Cheney clashed today before a federal judge here over which branch of government's claim is paramount: the executive power to keep records confidential or the legislative right to investigate how public money is spent.

For the first time in the 81-year history of the agency, the auditing arm of Congress, the comptroller general of the United States went to federal court to ask a judge to order a member of the executive branch to turn over records to Congress.

.... a 22-year-old law allowed the comptroller general to "investigate all matters related to the receipt, disbursement and use of public money."

He also contended that the law gives the comptroller general the right to obtain all "information the comptroller requires about the duties, powers, activities, organization and financial transactions" of the agency under investigation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/28/politics/28CHEN.html

." But the information was essential, he said, for the agency to do its job to "look over the shoulder" of the executive branch as it spent taxpayers' money.

"How do you engage in a meaningful oversight function of the way public funds are spent if you cannot look at the highest level of the executive branch?" Mr. Phillips said.

Phillips should look - both Bush($__m) and Cheney ($36m) gutted their former companies - shareholders in America-inc want a report on 'The $state of the Nation'!

If the USA looks open, transparent, and honest ... who knows ... it might reflect well via world Sharemarkets.

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