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    Missile Defense

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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almarst2003 - 09:06am Mar 1, 2003 EST (# 9385 of 17697)

http://www.antiwar.com/

Frantic US Envoys Circle the Globe Offering Bribes - http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030228-724656.htm

UN: 10 Million Could Starve in Iraq War - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13499-2003Feb27?language=printer

almarst2003 - 09:15am Mar 1, 2003 EST (# 9386 of 17697)

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY???

Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were Destroyed Bombshell revelation from a defector cited by White House and press - Star Witness on Iraq Said Weapons Were Destroyed Bombshell revelation from a defector cited by White House and press http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kamel.html

After devoting thousands of network hours and oceans of ink to stories about "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, major U.S. news outlets did little but yawn in the days after the latest Newsweek published an exclusive report on the subject -- a piece headlined "The Defector's Secrets."

It's hard to imagine how any journalist on the war beat could read the article's lead without doing a double take:

"Hussein Kamel, the highest-ranking Iraqi official ever to defect from Saddam Hussein's inner circle, told CIA and British intelligence officers and U.N. inspectors in the summer of 1995 that after the Gulf War, Iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and the missiles to deliver them." http://www.fair.org/media-beat/030227.html

lchic - 11:22am Mar 1, 2003 EST (# 9387 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Iraq | sanctions - shortages - skill and ingenuity

Asked about recent comments by US Secretary of State Colin Powell, that Iraq is guilty of hiding weapons of mass destruction, Firas explodes with anger.

FIRAS: All of the Iraqi said to Mr Powell, go to the hell. One word. All the Iraqi said to Mr Powell go to the hell.

We're clean, we're clean, we're clean. I repeat it, we're clean.

http://www.abc.net.au/am/s795726.htm

lchic - 11:31am Mar 1, 2003 EST (# 9388 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

NK | SK

As Mr Roh spoke of a peaceful resolution to the crisis, thousands of people rallied in central Seoul calling for a tough stance against the communist state.

The rare anti-North Korea and pro-US rally in the heart of the capital came three months after much larger crowds staged angry protests against the United States in a groundswell that helped the dovish Roh win a close presidential election.

About 20,000 mostly elderly and conservative protesters said South Korea must seek peace through strength and firm up its military alliance with the United States.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2003/02/item20030228001055_1.htm

US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher says North Korea continues to flout international law.

"North Korea has taken a series of steps in the wrong direction," he said.

lchic - 11:43am Mar 1, 2003 EST (# 9389 of 17697)
ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong foundation

Football Crazy? http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,905389,00.html

Saif's team is Al-Nafid, the Oil team. Their opponents yesterday, Irbil, are the best Kurdish side in Iraq's national league.

The country may be divided into two distinct chunks, but Kurdish and Iraqi sides play each other most weekends.

To reach Irbil, the Baghdad players had to travel across a reinforced Iraqi frontline, past freshly dug army trenches filled with oil, and up into the mountains of Kurdistan.

.... Football remains hugely popular in Iraq, and is one of the few pastimes that appears to unite the country's ethnic and religious factions.

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