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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?

wbtake1 - 11:51am Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10387 of 10657)

BTW- one of America's biggest peaceniks "Neil Young" is for WAR with these Talaban types!

Here you go:

Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001

Pro-Bush Neil Young Shocks Leftists

The left-wing group that calls itself People for the American Way got the shock of its life when it honored peacenik Canadian rocker Neil Young - and he said President Bush's anti-terrorism measures were necessary.

"We can't forget what brought us together and what we're living for, what makes us who we are, even though to protect freedom it seems that we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time," Young said Tuesday at the limousine-liberal group's annual dinner in (where else?) Beverly Hills.

More than a few eyebrows were raised, Reuters news agency reported Wednesday.

"It is a law that we get a chance to get them back. It's very important not to forget that.

"It's a tough time for all of us who believe in a certain way of life to come to grips with the fact that we have to kind of make a - what do you call it - this word's hard for me - I think it's - compromise. That's right. But it's temporary, and we can't forget that it's temporary. We're going to do the job, and then we're going to get back to being who we are."

Young, who received the outfit's "Spirit of Liberty lifetime achievement award," recently had the blame-America-first left grumbling when he recorded the song ''Let's Roll'' as a tribute to the doomed passengers who overpowered their hijackers over Pennsylvania on Sept. 11.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker, creators of ``South Park'' and the failed "That's My Bush!" sitcom, also had the whine-and-cheese GWLs (Guilty White Liberals) gasping when Parker said they were proud Republicans.

``It's true," said Parker, dressed in a garish stars-and-stripes suit.

egypt46 - 11:51am Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10388 of 10657)

rather than worry about the cost of missile defense and health care, why don't just change our policy? why not exploit the resources of other countries, while supporting despotism on the part of our allies? why not demand that we seek reconciliation and get to the root of the problem. weapons will never bring peace, o my brothers!

lchic - 12:02pm Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10389 of 10657)

the failed "That's My Bush!"
Failed .. it was a 'classic' !

general_slocum - 12:08pm Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10390 of 10657)

if all disputed ballots had been manually counted—Al Gore could have eked out a narrow victory. ........That, at least, is how the story got played last week in front page stories in The New York Times, Washington Post and other newspapers

Gore did win!

Well, I had no idea nuclear tipped missiles, courtesy of Mr. Taliban, are aimed at us. That would certainly justify all the expense of NMD (heheheheheheh)

Good diplomacy, fair global trade, good intelliegence, etc (all low cost, low tech) would've prevented many bin ladins. But that wouldn't make money for Bush, Inc.

lchic - 12:09pm Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10391 of 10657)

'we' .. we were very wee at the conclusion of wwi .. if most of that 'we' group are long dead .. can they be 'we' or does monikerfaceted poster mean 'they'.

wbtake1 - 12:09pm Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10392 of 10657)

The root of the problem, in most cases, is our American way of life. Are you suggesting we give up our way of life for the few countries and groups that hate what America stands for? Bin Laden hates the American way of life and calls all Americans infidels. Explain how we can reconcile with Bin Laden. After all Islam is practiced more freely in America then any other place on earth. I see... you just want all women in America to be covered head to toe and you want them to be illiterate like the women in Afghanistan that were ruled by the Talaban and Bin Laden.

So get on that plane and go meet with Bin Laden and the Talaban and make peace! I'd rather Bomb them from 50,000 feet and have MDA and other systems to protect use.

wbtake1 - 12:14pm Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10393 of 10657)

Here is what you left out!

THE DECISION: a split verdict. To the chagrin of Democratic partisans, the consortium proclaimed Bush still would have won the apparently limited statewide recount underway last December 9 even if the U.S. Supreme Court had not swooped in and stopped it.

ifrankel1 - 12:25pm Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10394 of 10657)

Whether the Treaty has any present validity or not is not the question. Unilaterally withdrawing in order to persue activity that is specifically forbidden under the Treaty is a slap in the face to our allies as well as to other signatories and a direct invitation to an arms race that nobody wants.

exnewyorker4 - 12:26pm Dec 14, 2001 EST (#10395 of 10657)

It's clear that America will never be able to make everyone happy. So why should one bend over backwards for them. Doesn't Arafat talk out of both sides of his mouth. Didn't that s.o.b. Osama appears so proud of what he did that he allowed his conversation to be taped. The world is full of people like that. We must know our own interests and pursue them. Go Bush, go Rumsfeld, go USA (in this war)!

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